Visual culture and design research
Conference-performance
❤️Love❤️ in the Service of the Far Right (1h15)
“Charlie C. Thomas explores the intersection of affect, capitalism, and digital culture, revealing how care has become a branding strategy for neo-fascist movements. This research is presented in a talk combining visual presentation and collective listening. Recorded live at the Maison des Métallos, the event will be turned into a podcast broadcast on clubfringe.co, a platform dedicated to discourse through sound, theory, and performance.”
© Artagon - Photo © Laura Lafon Cadilhac
Publication
In the name of ♥ is a 2-year research published by onomatopee. At the crossroads between semiotics, visual communication, poetry and political studies, the book explores the use of the heart symbol in the context of social media and far-right campaigns.
Hackaton, Creative coding
A hackathon for coders, designers and artists at Reaktorhallen, the first nuclear reactor hall of Sweden. 25 meters underground, we worked on solutions to bridge design, coding and live music.
Article
In the Name of ♥
Claiming the Semiotics of Power, Colonialism & Capitalism.
“While online environments enable underrepresented voices and communities to develop and organise such as Me Too and Black Lives Matter, white supremacist movements are also rising through social media, forums, videos and podcasts. With greater reasons today, we must look at how we communicate with each other (...)”
Video making, creative coding
As part of ongoing research on photomorphing, time warp, and randomness, this work combines film photography with shifting color channels, layered effects, and scripts created in After Effects. This research served as the foundation for the visual work developed for Piricho.
Illustration, Mapping video
The illustration made of gradients, light, and overlapping forms was transposed as a video mapping installation. In a collaboration with Claire Bonnet and interior designer Manon Portera, combining projection mapping and set design, the installation explored how graphic design can work in space, interacting with different objects and materials.
Mapping video, Modeling
Iannis Xenakis was an artist, composer, architect, engineer, and mathematician (1922, Romania – 2001, Paris). Hommage à Iannis Xenakis is a visual project created as a conclusion to my research on his work.
I built a wooden and tracing-paper model of the Philips Pavilion designed by Xenakis. Alongside this, I collected his sketches and visual studies, adding my own drawings to adapt them in Modul8 and create visual loops.