Inside Radiohead's KID A MNESIA: Art, Film & Interactive Worlds with Matt Davis
This presentation will take us behind the scenes of the creation and evolution of Radiohead’s KID A MNESIA — from the original artwork created during the recording sessions of Kid A and Amnesiac, through the KID A MNESIA Exhibition video game, into the KID A MNESIA film that now sits within the physical Motion Picture House traveling installation.
The presentation will explore how the project came to life, why it evolved across these different formats, and the process behind each transformation. Using original artwork, early layouts, renderings, reference material and work-in-progress content, it will show how the original physical art was translated into a digital environment using Unreal Engine.
It will then follow the project’s next evolution: taking the world and imagery created for the game into film, and determining how that film could best be experienced in a physical space — ultimately becoming Motion Picture House.
The session offers a firsthand look at how one creative project evolved across music, art, game, film and IRL experience — the decisions behind each transformation, what was learned along the way, and the challenges of carrying the same creative world across multiple mediums.
Join us Thursday, 10/22 for a peek into this project, followed by a live Q&A with Matt Davis.
About Matt Davis
Matthew Davis is an audio-visual producer, programmer, and musician whose passion for music continuously leads him to discover new ways of interacting with art and technology in an ever-converging, expanding new media space.
A musician since childhood, he graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Economics, then went on to study Music Production & Programming at the Berklee College of Music.
Since then, Matt has spent years inventing show control systems for live performance and cultivating adaptive platforms for all kinds of experiential and real-time environments.
In addition to running his interactive media studio, [namethemachine], where he produced Radiohead’s KID A MNESIA Virtual Exhibition and film, Matt plays electronics for the LA Philharmonic and has been programming Drake’s live show for the last fifteen years.
Superposition, Matt’s ambient music project with longtime collaborator Justin Boreta (The Glitch Mob), was nominated for Best New Age Album at the 2020 Grammy Awards.
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