Milestones
Contemporary
in Visual Arts
by Universal Everything
VN-200825_D
Animated design prototypes envisioning shape-shifting displays and context-aware surfaces. The work imagines screens as emotive materials, blending media art, speculative design, and futuristic interface.
Universal Everything’s Screens of the Future is a visionary video series depicting next-generation interfaces as animated sculptural matter. These CGI prototypes visualise supple, responsive surfaces—screens that stretch, hue-shift, pulse—bridging the divide between object, interface, and ambient design.
Acting less as screens and more as living forms, each animation hints at how everyday objects could evolve through flexible displays, shape-shifting materials, and ambient intelligence. The project reads as design fiction and art: conceptual renderings reframed as product prototypes of tomorrow.
This media art series reflects the studio’s broader interests in synaesthetic environments, digital architectures, and phenomenological computing. It positions screens not as discrete tools, but as integrated, emotional components of lived space. Screens of the Future reframes screens as dynamic presences, embedded within our sensory experience of geometry, gesture, and space.
Credits (Universal Everything)
Creative Directors: Matt Pyke, Mike Hughes
Senior Producer: Greg Povey
Animation Directors: Chris Perry; Matt Frodsham; DXMIQ; Rita Louro; Nicola Gastaldi; Wang & Söderström; Ben White; Joe Street; Kouhei Nakama; Ben Black; Jason Drew
Executive Producer (Digital Creatures exhibition): Norra Abdul Rahim
Photography: Sandra Ciampone