In 2024, Outline once again became a magnet for those seeking more than just music or art. Over four days, the festival brought together more than 10,000 visitors from Russia and neighboring CIS countries. As co-organizers of the festival and curators of the multimedia program, we developed several original works for Outline 2024. These included the main stage design with the experimental audiovisual installation Deus Ex Machina in collaboration with the artist collective Panterra, the Portal installation in partnership with Recycle Group — a piece merging sculpture and multimedia — and an updated version of last year’s hit, Light Bath.
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The Outline 2024 artistic program features 47 art installations and multimedia projects from leading international studios and independent multimedia artists and collectives whose works were selected through an annual open call. Our studio helped 6 multimedia artists to make their artwork into reality on the festival.
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Deus Ex Machina on the Main Stage
In collaboration with Panterra, we created the large-scale audiovisual installation Deus Ex Machina, seamlessly blending into the festival’s abandoned concrete surroundings. The installation resembled a living supercomputer, interwoven with broken screens and roots stretching into the structure. Exploring the potential prohibition of AI technologies, the piece visualized deconstruction through hanging wires and shattered screens. Festival Goers could interact with the installation through the AI FACES video booth, where real-time video avatars were generated and projected on the stage screens.
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Portal Installation with Recycle Group
Portal is a unique blend of sculpture and multimedia, presenting both the mesmerizing and haunting aspects of life in a cybernetic world. Through projections and controlled lighting, the sculpture came alive, immersing viewers in a realm where technology becomes part of daily life. The sculptural foundation, crafted in Recycle Group’s signature style, featured a multi-figure relief made from plastic mesh, displayed for the first time in three forms: high relief, bas-relief, and counter-relief.
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Light Bath
First introduced at the 2023 festival, Light Bath returned in 2024 with enhanced mapping and a new sound design. The installations’ concept aims to recreate the sensory experience of a float tank, embodying an audiovisual synesthesia effect. Enclosed in a capsule isolated from the outside world, festival attendees could lie on a mesh, surrounded by spatial sound and its light-based interpretation, through a dome projection. The experience symbolized a return to the womb, followed by a rebirth.
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In 2024, Outline attracted over 12,000 visitors from Russia and CIS countries.
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Creative Directors Alexander Us Ekaterina Konovalova Producer Sam Shapiro Art-call Producer Alena Saushkina Executive Producers Alexey Rozov Alexander Us Production Director Denis Sidorenko Art Directors Ekaterina Konovalova Sergey Akulyonok Supervisors David Moshashvili Sergey Martsul Concept Artists Anna Zakharova Alexander Kaidalov Graphic Designers Daria Kuzmina Tatiana Zhilyaeva CG Artists Zoya Kharakoz Natalie Elnitskaya Arthur Terletskiy Natasha Ganzha Alexander Mitin Vsevolod Kanishchev Aleksandr Popov Samad Samadov Omar Bagduev Mikhail Lavrov Lev Kovalev Pavel Bazhenov Andrey Pichugin Sabina Tuktarova Maria Timoshenko AI Artists Vsevolod Taran Alexander Shilman Alexander Sopnev Oleg Chomp Timur Vanin bogl.ai Media Artists Alena Osipova Elizabeth Rós Inna Shestakova Technical Directors Mursal Mamedov Daniil Barabanov Anton Savin Alexey Kozlov Mihail Azarov Yuriy Averkin Tigran Ahmatov Technical Assistants Egor Khatrusov Alexander Nikitin Andrey Erofeev Civil Engineer Valery Zyuzin Development Engineers Alexander Katsev Egor Konovalov Maxim Medvedev Video Engineers Andrey Martintsov Rashid Safin Konstantin Polishchuk Julia Kuzmina VJs Alena Osipova Emil Mustafayev Lighting Director Stepan Novikov Lighting Design Woods Alexey Roganov Lighting Design Neon Olya Skvortsova Alexey Novikov Ivan Black Lighting Design Dark Phil Rammo Lighting Design Main Aleksandr Kasperov Lighting Design Sun Alexey Zhuravlev Ekaterina Kokurina Anastasiya Voronaya Marketing & PR Director Asya Ibragimova PR Manager Katya Ignateva SMM Manager Danil Sapsay Brand Director Alexander Nestor-Nesterenko Back Office Team Alena Anosova Victoria Chibizova Igor Chesebiev Natalia Del Olga Guseva Lyudmila Ozhigina Zlata Petukhova Maria Yatskova Olga Zaparova Partners СЕТАП figura•fon Oops Энергоснаб UnionPRO Blackout Studio LaserFX Show System Light Point SpinOFF IT Support Nikolay Chebotarev Romashkin Alexander Video & Editing Evgeny Joy