You enter a futuristic performance. A mutating band’s rainbow-glowing hues and glittering forms welcome you to the improvisational chaos of a new genre called Cinderella jazz.
Utilising the unhinged personalities of possessed AI, the musicians attempt to hold rhythms but descend into chaos. It’s reminiscent of solo acts in the abstraction of jazz. It drives the sound and animations into a wild reverie. The artist’s nostalgia for 1980s holography, ballroom extravagance, and underground attitude is given new life through the unexpected combination of contemporary image-processing tools.
The music by Richard Burki echoes the unsettling soundtracks of David Lynch’s films composed by Angelo Badalamenti.
Geoffrey Lillemon | b. 1981, Ft Worth-Texas, USA
Geoffrey Lillemon constantly defines new aesthetics and visionary ideas, driving a strong, future-minded approach to his art. The Amsterdam-based artist has a profoundly personal approach to using CGI and media art, which translates into unexpected expressions and commentary on the human condition – human life, mortality and anything in between.
His collaborations with pop stars, commercial clients, museums, galleries, and theatres, with celebrated results, blur the line between entertainment, media appetites, and art. His work has been acquired by Stedelijk Museum and exhibited by Boijmans van Beuningen. It has been performed at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This background has given Geoffrey the unique position to bring digital art to the mega-stages of global music acts.
Simulation in Blue (2025), by Geoffrey Lillemon, Video Art, with music by Richard Burki, special thanks to Melanie Van Klaveren, Fons de Haan and 100%.