Uramaki Studios is a collaborative platform founded by Ümüt Yildiz and Simon Toni Rowas.
The studio explores the intersection of art, design, and technology, blending AI-driven processes with physical craft and immersive storytelling.
Working across digital and analog media, Uramaki Studios creates experimental worlds that merge visual culture, critical narratives, and contemporary aesthetics for exhibitions, brands, and cultural projects.
In this new video work, The Cripples — recurring figures in Ümüt Yildiz and Simon Toni Rowas’ universe — embody human emotions as they navigate a landscape of constant digital interference.
Neither monsters nor mascots, the Cripples are affect made visible: tenderness, fear, jealousy, joy.
They try to reach one another, but their gestures are pulled off-course by the perpetual hum of technology — interfaces, alerts, invisible protocols that fracture attention and interrupt care.
The film stages this tension as a choreography of proximity and drift.
Moments of almost-connection give way to flicker, lag, and re-routing; intimacy is attempted, then re-rendered.
The Cripples mirror our contemporary condition: we feel deeply, yet our channels are crowded; we long for presence, yet our focus is outsourced.
Rather than moralizing, the work dwells within this contradiction, allowing it to unfold through image and rhythm, inviting viewers to sense how mediation reshapes desire, trust, and touch.
By personifying emotions, The Cripples turn abstraction into encounter. We recognize ourselves in their awkward grace and stubborn persistence.
The piece asks, with quiet urgency: what remains of a relationship when attention becomes a commodity — and what new forms of relating can we invent inside, against, or alongside the machine?
The Cripples don’t resolve the dilemma; they keep trying. In their attempts lies the work’s fragile hope.
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