Narrator ali banisadr is probably the only artist in the world influence by the iraniraq war, graffiti art, and of is our medical condition. His paintings have been described as he produces canvaseses that that a first seem abstract, but when you look closer, are they figurative or abstract . His style is instantly recognizable. Painter is a ali banisadr is a painter. Especially for a younger artist, painting is not considered a young mans game anymore. Create aable to multicultural painterly statement that reflects our world today and the strains of our history that make contemporary art so dynamic. Generatione of that of iranians who were born in the 70s 1970s before the revolution, lived through the revolution, then the iraqiran war. And like many families, emigrating from iran to the United States or europe. He came to new york and studied at the school of visual arts. Ali i started making drawings when the iraniraq war was happening, making drawings based on the sounds i was hearing. When the alarm would come on, you would run down to the basement, and all you are left with was the sounds and vibrations. Joins based on the sounds to try to sort of understand what was happening around me. It was my way of dealing with the whole situation. I think the breakthrough i think the breakthrough moment was a graduate school when i had to do my thesis, and i got a grant to go to normandy, and one of the things we did was go to the dday site. I was looking at the scenery, and it looked really familiar to memories, aht back sort of smell actually of the war. It was so familiar that i was Walking Around in a daze. Normandy,e back from i decided to make these charcoal drawings based on the sounds of explosions. I felt like something happen there, where i felt freed from trying to make a painting. Worksable to compose the the way i had been wanting to without strategizing so much. It really showed me a different way of sort of working. This painting, called blackwater, refers to the mercenaries sent to the middle east operating in a strange, secretive underworld. Incubator, clearly ,uggests a battle or explosion the chance memories of war still some close to the surface. Whether or not they are is ant, i think it question. If youre looking at a scene of warfare, and to that extent they might be related to the work of which also includes scenes of great barbarity. Ali its still sort of speaks to what is happening in our time now. It has lived through time, and you can look at the work and see those characters living now with different outfits now. Way really intrigued by the he was able to portrayed Society Still have it but live through time and be relevant in our time. Delight isof earthly probably my favorite painting. I could stand in front of it for hours and hours. What i love about it is that there are stories within stories within stories, and your eyes just Wander Around and there is so much to take in, and it is an experience really. It is not something that you could just walk away from. His paintings, the way it has a birds eye view of the world, is what intrigues me. Seeing it from a birds eye point if you, an overall look, macrolevel of society, and i think in that way that is what i tried to do in my work as well, pull back and look at our society from like a birds eye perspective. In 2012, one of his paintings was acquired by the Islamic Art Department of the metropolitan museum, one of americas most important art collections. ,lthough not yet on show alongside historic collections from the middle east, persian carpets, titles, miniatures, the met now has canterbury art. This painting is called interrogation. Works,ith many of his vigorous brushstrokes, small flakes, squiggles, and it is really about the brushstrokes, expressions of the horrific sounds actually of war. There is an atmosphere of gloom that surrounds this painting, i despair, and i think its a commentary also on what is going on today in our part of the world. Theechi thwangechi ali the metropolitan is the museum i go there the most. All these are designed go to look at to learn something from, it is pretty incredible. Paintingsthe persian he likes are from the 16th century, and especially those of one particular artist. Own the faces have their sort of personality and character, where some of the persian miniature paintings, one phase could be every phase. He gave it a little bit of a twist. A manuscript, the greatest ever produced. Those paintings were inspirational to ali. Ali i do see myself in the medition, but for for what is important is trying to understand the essence of the persian miniature paintings, the essence, as opposed to trying to use the motives and the figures and sort of make them abstract. You see a lot of that happening. Way, i do see myself as part of the tradition of persian miniature, but im not making persian miniature paintings. As a brooklyn artist, where he lives and works. The extent to which he draws on references from the past and presence, im sure they connect in some way to the islamic and the extentn to which he could be seen as an islamic artist seems on a relevant for enjoyment of the work. , there is aur ali strange alchemy between his images and ideas that drive the work. Ali sound is like the underneath layer of all the work that i make. As soon as i put the brush down, the sounds begin. For a longernote note that sort of carries on. Im not sure i understand the importance of music in his paintings, but i have a strong sense of sound when i look at them. Has aor ali banisadr condition where different senses like sound and vision get closely allied together or even confused. Ali sees or hears his paintings like compositions, and it really influences the way he works. Ali for me, it is an asset. To music andlisten have this parallel visual world that is going on at the same time. Narrator the music he is listening to for this painting is ascending bird by an iranian iranmeetsbrooklyn combination. Erupts just sort of the and then it sort of columns down and goes up again. Calms down and goes up again. He has had it since he was a thed and he talks about iraniraq war, so that splintering sound of bombs coming has made a huge psychological impact, and why wouldnt it . Music, im not making a soundtrack painting or anything like that. The sound im talking about comes from the painting itself, but it has to be exciting to me. It has to be surprising to me. Otherwise there is no point. It is the rhythm that is the most compelling thing in alis work, and that rhythm is contemporary. He seems to be reveling in the paint, taking it into a very exciting realm. The music refers to an icaruslike iranian legend, where a bird flies towards the sun and confuses itself in a moment of transformation. Ali its like the sound of rising, like an opera, where the sound just goes up, and that sort of what is happening at the the higher go to level, it transforms into another element and become Something Else like the or particularly that painting over there, all those figures are transforming into ether. Paintings were all the figures in chaos, animals, gods, machines, everything is, and as it lifts up, the painting becomes lighter and there is some kind of hope. The chaos underneath transfers into like another element like ether or something. , they are like a jumble of notes, and trying to untangle those notes and in a way listen to that sound is much more important to me as a viewer than two decode the visual imagery. Ali they are quiet. They are finished when they are quiet. They are not asking for anything more and they are fine exactly how they are. I turn awayly do is a painting for a month or something, then come in one day and quickly turn it around and look at it, and if nothing jumps out at me, then it is fine. If there is a part that jumped out at me, then i have to deal with it, even though it could be the best part of the painting, maybe i destroyed our make the whole thing not to function really. Ali you look around and it is like looking at little worlds there with Little People going about their daily lives, sort of like paintings were you have this birdseye view and you are creating narratives for these little figures that are going about their daily lives, kind of fun. Most creative the borough in new york, and new york is made up of five boroughs. The most wellknown is manhattan, the origin of the art world pass, but the cost of living in the center of new york and manhattan has become prohibitive for most artists come as a younger artists have colonized sections of brooklyns and queens to find cheap living and large working spaces, so the lk of artist and to be working in brooklyn. Ali when i came to new york, as i walked around, i felt if i could call anywhere home, this is it. I dont feel displaced youre really. Because of diversity, and because of the types of people who live here, you have the best of both worlds really. You can go to the z ms as you , but then youse can sort of get away from everything to you can go to the museums as you like very , but that you consort of get away from everything. Watching the sunset every evening, looking at the colors, and somehow these colors have worked their way into my paintings. This sort of painters color came about from the sunset, but the mood for me, more so than before, reflects my surroundings. Always fascinating to see how an artist adapts to his or her surroundings and how it effects the works. Few years ago a seemed to come mainly out of his own imagination. The current work is much more rooted in the reality of his neighborhood, and you can see the inspiration, street characters, the brooklyn light. Literally walks the streets gathering inspiration, and the things that catch his eye are often surprising. This line element, the sort of motif, i think i see a lot of shutters Walking Around and is kind of an interesting element to use. It separates the space behind from what comes forward, and i always like this sort of element of having deep space fight with flatness. Ali perhaps someone could rent a room there. Roster, gray, lighter gray, yellow. , gray, lighter gray, yellow card one of the things i have been paying attention to is a weathered look and making mental notes and how i could use these in my paintings. You have a juxtaposition of gritty and nature. Hello, i love your garden. Brooklyn, you feel the sense of Creative Energy around in the people you meet in the neighborhood. As a graffitiout artist and found that exhilarating. This. Ou have to get at the beginning in america, it was hard for me to adjust in a school where getting the best grades were not necessarily make you popular, which in iran, it did. You had to sort of adjust to a different understanding of what it is to be an america. Corner, he runs into a graffiti artist and local organizer who has a mission to bring art to the streets. Muralally when you get a with your face on it, youre dead. Im very much alive and well. Ali i see. Got it. It is better for me to put these things up all over the neighborhood as development is growing and rather than looking at boarded things, i would rather look at art. Ali exactly. , they will write over everything other than the art. Ali it is good that they respect that, you know. Yeah. Narrator while ali isnt involved in street art anymore, its not hard to see the traces in his work. 2008, where graffiti art seems to confront the persian miniatures. Many artists make sketches in preparation for the big paintings. Ali is turning that idea on its head, making charcoal drawings, some of them quite graffitilike , derived from parts of his bigger oil paintings. This painting is taken from a section of the painting that he just finished working on. Section where i wanted to capture in the drawing the little children of the painting, and then a sort of girl up and find their in a way. Then they sort of girl up and find their own way. Is a painter with exceptional technique. It is not just the high ceilings and the balcony, it is the way the paints or oil are arrayed. He is a classic oil painter. He has mastered these centuryold techniques, then of course he is one who is very well aware of the world of digital imagery and film, television. srrator this is one of ali paintings inspired by cinema. This one is called rand, inspired by coors solid. Kurasawa. He looks at that film and sees how he could turn that into a painting. Are rather denatured. They are not natural colors. They are very noisy colors, shrill, but also beautiful. Ali there has been some criticism about my Color Palette , but i think there has always been this biased against color in history, where they would eastern is primitive or. For me, using these colors is a way of capturing that intensity you get after it has rained and you walk around and everything is sort of so intense. These colors exist in nature and your major nation, so why can they be in paintings. And your imagination, so why cant they be in paintings . Announcer brilliant ideas, powered by hyundai motors. Hyundai believes this is where your inspirations set you free. Plays] is mere white beach in new zealand, and this is gandalf. To new zealande to check out the countrys unmatched beauty and to get their middle earth fix, and that makes perfect sense, but on this trip, im hunting for something. Lse, something less obvious im after the innovations being brought to life behind these , ands, in these buildings in the studio. Im heading out on a 400 mile journey across new zealands north island from auckland to wellington to find the most breathtaking inventions that the kiwis have cooked up. This is the first one that will go up here. On this episode of hello world we would check out a mad scientist, rockets, and an artificial baby that will either warm your hearts or leave you weeping for humanities grim future. Silicon valley may be home to some of the biggest tech giants in the world, but it is being challenged like never before. Crazy tech geniuses have popped up all over the planet, making things that will blow your mind. Vance, im anley author, journalist, and im on a quest to find the most innovative tech creations and meet the beautiful freaks behind them. Hello world. Oh, hello auckland, the home to 1. 5 million of new zealands 4. 5 million people, People Living outside auckland knock it as congested and hectic. Meanwhile, People Living in auckland celebrate the way of life. The city has a bustling food scene, a gorgeous harbor surrounded by fertile volcanic land, and those black sand beaches you saw earlier, they are just a half hour drive from downtown. Cheesyxt part will sound , but honest to god, it is true, auckland is full of cheery, optimistic people. You feel good when you are here, like you can do stuff, big stuff, crazy stuff, like say replicating human consciousness on the inside of a computer. It is our primary means of , but it has been untapped in terms of a humancomputer interface. A computer can express itself to you in a humanlike way that is emotional, cognitive. Thats when you start getting to those interesting places that interesting place. Going to see a ai baby. Fellow you meet next is a bad man madman, and the best possible way. He is a Computer Scientist at the university of auckland. Mark became famous for Building Super detailed simulations of the human body, and ended up winning a couple oscars for his work on films like avatar and king kong. These days, mark is, how do i put this . Trying to reverse engineer the human brain. He has built a series of simulations built around the way the human first face moves, emotions, and how new rons fire. Neurons fire. Now what we are going to do is run a baby x. What we are building here is a computer that can learn. This baby is looking at us and hearing us. As you get a fright, this is what she can say, this is my face here. So she is not copying my smile. She is responding to me. Ere is a little baby fist you can pick up page and show her something. Get her attention. Hi, baby. What you see . Whats this . Puppy. What is that baby . Puppy. Hi, baby. What you see . Sheep. Very good, baby. A model ofreate consciousness. The computer model has just become conscious of something. Is there a thought there. Nurything is run by a ral net. This is what is driving in the background. These are all the connections lighting up as the baby is doing stuff. This is a simulation of what would be happening . If youre going to make a character biological then you have to use a natural model, so that is what is going on inside baby x. Now we take this stuff and i will connected to cognitive computer systems. You have biological, neural networks, connecting them to Artificial Intelligence portals, and the potential is normas. That is where the future will probably be. Potential is enormous. That is where the future will probably be. Is a term New Zealanders have for people like mark. They are part of the countrys wired culture. Story of number eight wired goes back to the sheet. They used to make fences out of eight wire gauge metal and use the wire to fix any problem on the farm. Over time, a number eight wire mythology evolved think after the canned his of People Living in a remote place and of a people who had to solve problems in any way they could. While New Zealanders remained fond of the eight wire idea, there is an undeniable sense that the country is larry ready to level up, time to start inventing with more purpose and polish. The gritty garage workshop is giving way to this. , mattscientist lab that looks like it be for sale in an apple store. Cire avery embodies kiwi ingenuity. He is a prolific scientist and inventor. He made a fortune in the pharmaceutical industry, and then decided to dedicate his life to helping the worlds poorest people, hence the sir. Right this way. This is a cool house. I followed him to his garage lab, where he creates his objects. House is white, you are wearing white. I have black for winter and white for summer. 4007 a 95 days to live. How do you know that . Ive done the algorithm analysis of somebody born at my age in my time, so i know what i would do with the next 10 years of my life. Waste time on things that arent going to get you to where you need to go, things like clothing. Known forry is well taking complicated medical devices and making them simple, cheap, and herbal. Did you make this in here . This is your workshop. Yeah. Currently, he is working on this incubator. Somethinglmost like that superman would the happy to be in, and the shape of it is much more about getting even air distribution. Cross 2000lood versus 40,000 for typical incubators. The hope is that it can save thousands of lives each year. This is pretty ugly. He also has this giant block tofrozen chicken slurry amplify the nutritional value of trash me. They make it into this stuff. Yum, chicken slurry. I will have a spoonful later. Kiwi toxes it with break it down into the amino acids of the body can absorb it. If you take that, you get instant energy. You dont have to digest it. It will save millions and millions of kids live. Solution,legant einstein said, is the most simplest. Kiwis have a very practical way of doing things. You take away the noise that you have often with things like Silicon Valley and a bunch of guys and sheds with bits and pieces, they come up with stuff that nobody else has thought of. Coming up, we would take a look at buckets buckets. Buckets hello world is supported by ca technologies, powering opportunity in the application economy, explore more at ca. Com. I think New Zealanders dont think big enough. They dont go out to the really big problems in the big billiondollar ideas. I started building rockets when i was at school. The very first rocket i built into that being put on a bicycle. Most Rocket Companies are being started by governments. Rocket lab was started in 2007 by this maniac, peter back. Beck. Peter is one of the most capable people on the planet. , opting went to college instead to own his own engineering craft in the garage and machine shops. Now he wants to make it much easier and cheaper to put small satellites into space. If you had a satellite on your lap right now, in one week i could have it in orbit, moreover with less cost than any other way of getting it there. The first rocket launch will take place later this year. This is the first one that will go up . Yep. Commercial customers have signed up, and there is a twoyear waiting list. How much will you charge . 4. 9 million. It might seem like a lot, but its actually a remarkable figure. The cheapest way to get to space today is on one of elon musks buckets, spacex, and that cost 60 million per trip. Rocket labs prices would open space to a whole new set of customers, including scientists and businesses, and in effect democratize space. This is what the Aerospace World has dreamed of for decades. This is the second stage . Yep, you can lift it up. You rolled her eyes a little bit. Why is that . Number eight wire is about getting stuff to make it work. It is about high Tech Innovation and doing really clever things. With launch day approaching, the pressure is on. Today they are running an engine test at a site you the auckland airport. Worstcase scenario it blows up. Building a Rocket Company is insane. I arrived just in time for countdown. 3, 2, 1. The engine test was successful, but there is still a ways to go. What does it feel like in your gut, that countdown clock . I dont sleep much. That is probably the best answer to that question. With a bit of luck, he will maintain his saturday sanity through 2017, thats when rocket lab will start flying for paying customers. This is a tiny company of 100 people that will had have bested entire nations and put its stamp on the world. Eight wire culture, that is just flatout amazing. And with that, it is now time to leave auckland and journey to middle earth. We could have flown from auckland and it would have taken one hour, but we wanted to the basted in hobbit lives. We wanted to see the land. Road trip. Dear laptop, new zealand is everything you said it would be. Burgeros. If aliens visited earth and wanted to see what it had to offer, their first visit should be new zealand. Always invite, one after the other good that is it for now. Thanks for listening, laptop. Love, ashley. Three hours outside auckland, we made a pitstop in a hospira. In a hot spring. All the signs reading into this place, you will get meningitis if you stick your head under water. Im hoping that i live after this relaxing afternoon. The more i learn about meningitis, the more afraid i am that i have meningitis. You come to new zealand and it is all eight wire culture, rockets, dump your head under water and you are dead. Dunk your head under water and you are dead. Coming up next on hello world , a steal Peter Jacksons camera and get sucked into virtual reality. Isouncer hello world supported by ca technologies, powering opportunity in the education commonly. Explore morsi. Com. Famousome to a rainy and windy wellington, home to a thriving film industry. Director Peter Jackson is the local boy made good. He famously made lord of the rings here and shot past being a onehit wonder. An entirecreated movie Industry Based around his Film Production company, with a. This is well he would, just like eliwood, justwe like hollywood but without the glamour. It is tucked into a suburb called miramar. Expand intoed to virtual reality, and i was invited to take a look at the first vr movie, a scene from the hobbit where small quakes up from a nap. I smell you. You said it wasnt going to be frightening. Shadows. This is crazy. You feel real emotions when you see it. People get so much more Emotional Experience than from a video game or whatever. Thats why were on the Software Side to enable these highend experiences. Next, the studio where they found lord of the rings. We will have a look around. Where i got a crash course in motion capture filmmaking. To place thee director in a virtual world. There is a screen on the top that shows a rough version of the final graphics, while dozens of sensors around the room record all of the cameras movements. , do this stuffon come and say cut like any other film. Action. Good, ok. A Human Element back to green screen filmmaking. It is more tactile. It makes the director and she feel like he is shooting the film again. All right, cut. Weta became an industry of its own. On my last stop, i went to one of these, a vr Company Recording people in three dimensions to bring them into virtual reality. The difference from looking at a video to seeing a hologram that looks just like the real thing is so powerful. They are developing software ai toill bring the the masses. We will show you some experiences where we captured humans with offtheshelf cameras and it feels like you are in the room with the person. And i check it out . Sure. You can see the room . Yes. We create a virtual environment, but then capture very lifelike motion of the Human Performance and compose those together. Thesere used to making fantastic cgi creatures, but it would not work for a normal person. You dont want to drop a hollywood budget just to record your child experiencing his first steps. There was no clear, efficient, scalable solution to capture reality and author experiences at a scale, real is him pace that would create a similar content database for people to enjoy. This is going to be like a movie. Oh, my god. That is crazy. Im sort of like afraid of heights. I thought i was going to walk off a cliff. That was really frightening. Myself,ime to scan although skeptical, so i could meet the virtual ashley. Which way do i look . This way . You dont have to look anywhere. You are captured from all angles. I just have to stay in a circle . Pretty much. I was surrounded by 30 cameras all perfectly spaced and measured. Vance, but im not really ashley vance. A digital ashley vance made at the studios. They put them all together to me. A final 3d version of hands in pockets. My virtual friend. So i get to see my virtual self today. You have seen yourself many times in 2d videos. Im going to see what i always look like in a mirror, so i dont know why seeing a 3d version of myself is different. That is kind of strange. The detail is insane. You can see my whiskers, right . The cameras are that good . And we are looking to increase that resolution as well. [laughter] stepped into yourself. Oh, no. That is crazy. Whoa, i did not know where i was in the room. It is lifelike. That was the Biggest Surprise for me. Boys and they grow up so quick and its like, if you could just remember how they talked and their gestures and the funny things they said, that would be really cool. Here is the thing about new zealand, its economy depends on sheep, cows, enters, and everyone knows that needs to change. Technology is the countrys future. Thanks to come is like rocket lab, and ai, the changes underway. Investors have started to pour money into new zealand, and engineers are staying home, because there are good jobs to be had. If you are an outsider looking to come here, why not . The scenery is breathtaking and the weather is good. New zealand is taking on some of the hardest problems in the industry. It is working on the technology of the absurd. On the next episode of hello world, i go to sweden and hang out with mous hunters of the arctic circle, take over the countrys electrical grid, and eat cinnamon buns with spotifys daniel act. Hello announcer from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Charlie how is it to be back in at this house . Linmanuel very normal. I only live a few blocks away. So, its i have been here since i was one year old. Charlie this is a house of memories. Linmanuel this is a house of memories, of ghosts. But its also it was a laboratory for me. I have filmed so many action movies where we are sitting. I have filmed so many animated movies with my g. I. Joe