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Memory fragments from Tokyo, Milan & Barcelona, performing our @team.rolfes virtual club theatre show 321Rule, with the motion-captured star role of ‘Eris Wonderful’ played by @69_peterparker_69 at @treatment_asia in Shibuya Tokyo, @myss.keta at @linecheck_it in Milan, and @katmarikoz at @sonarfestival in Barcelona. Thank you so much to everyone who came out this Summer, and to our impossibly talented and patient musical stars ✧✦ 321Rule is the first fully original VR-puppeted, motion capture avatar-ed, real-time club-theatre performance by virtual performance studio @team.rolfes . ✧✦ More international dates TBA ✧✦ Original show credits: Direction, Scenes, Concept, Client Character: @sam.rolfes @team.rolfes Scene Design, Show Dev: @bausaus Slay Machine Innovator: @array_1337 Script, Concept: @jacob_cyberspace Additional #XR #VR #metaverse #realtime #theatre Performance/Dev: @andy.rolfes Original Soundtrack: @galen.tipton , & @countbaldor Additional Dev: @liamwlfe Additional Unreal Dev: @flipkostic Additional Scene Dev: @ina_ccchen Graphic Design: @borthcynotium Pop Up Videos: @dril_real , @tokymegz , @cabbibo , @ianerb & Katabelle Ansari as the voice of SYSTEM and Memory Woman Thank you @diskagency @soft_centre 🤍

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1 year ago

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cover for @ladygaga ’s Dawn of Chromatica by @team.rolfes myself, @andy.rolfes , and @s_a_mayer — with design by @krstnklkv ⚔️very much following in the footsteps and doing our small take on the lore of imo one of the best album visual worlds ever done, Chromatica, by @100br @trvsbrthrs @d.pika @cavecanems and their team (finally able to move this to the caption after having tags blocked for the last week)

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4 years ago

$On January 28th at the new @zerospace NYC main stage, the World’s First AI Superfan®, Kina, debuts at @team.rolfes & @club_cringe’s real-time club-theatre event: Diskokina.Diskokina is a night of premiere live-AV showcases, motion captured avatars, #VR puppeted character dialogue, and intense new club music from artists including @misszorajones & @sinjin.hawke’s @fractalfantasy, @torvs, @katmarikoz, @gfoty, @vonmusic, @khalif, @umru, @bloodyclip, & @thefrostchildren… and @petalsupplyco @swan.meat @xxmothercellxx @angelmoneymafia @djwallh4x @hoe_slut_hoe *deep breath* @kevinpeterhe @502.bg @tendryylWritten by @liby_hays and @jacob_cyberspace (of horse_ebooks, Pronunciation Book, and Bear Stearns Bravo acclaim), and voiced by @live_laugh_love_irs , Kina will be hosting live as the audience and musical participants help train her AI dataset to be a polite and supportive fan (barring any unforeseen complications).Tickets available at Dice.FM or through @team.rolfes / @club_cringe’s bios #XR$

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On January 28th at the new @zerospace NYC main stage, the World’s First AI Superfan®, Kina, debuts at @team.rolfes & @club_cringe ’s real-time club-theatre event: Diskokina. Diskokina is a night of premiere live-AV showcases, motion captured avatars, #VR puppeted character dialogue, and intense new club music from artists including @misszorajones & @sinjin.hawke ’s @fractalfantasy , @torvs , @katmarikoz , @gfoty , @vonmusic , @khalif , @umru , @bloodyclip , & @thefrostchildren … and @petalsupplyco @swan.meat @xxmothercellxx @angelmoneymafia @djwallh4x @hoe_slut_hoe *deep breath* @kevinpeterhe @502.bg @tendryyl Written by @liby_hays and @jacob_cyberspace (of horse_ebooks, Pronunciation Book, and Bear Stearns Bravo acclaim), and voiced by @live_laugh_love_irs , Kina will be hosting live as the audience and musical participants help train her AI dataset to be a polite and supportive fan (barring any unforeseen complications). Tickets available at Dice.FM or through @team.rolfes / @club_cringe ’s bios #XR

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3 years ago

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🌟 Meet Lincoln Center Collider Fellow, @sam.rolfes ! 🌟 @sam.rolfes is a virtual performer, artist, and co-director of Team Rolfes, a real-time digital performance studio specializing in figurative animation, VR puppetry, and mixed-reality collage. His wide-ranging practice includes motion-capture performances, fashion and print design, and music visuals for collaborators such as Lady Gaga, Arca, Metallica, Netflix, and Nike. ➡️ Love art x technology? Learn more about how Lincoln Center’s Collider Fellowship explores that relationship, with Collider collaborator @onassis.onx , at the #linkinbio.

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1 month ago

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@team.rolfes visualizer for @katmarikoz ’s new track NPC 💅 (sneakily previewed at past 321Rule performances) Virtual production and post by @sam.rolfes @andy.rolfes with relight processing & diva consulting by @emsieler

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1 month ago

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Take a look inside our recent Create-athon: Making Mocap Digital Movies, led by Lincoln Center Collider Fellow @sam.rolfes and @team.rolfes ! 🎮✨ At this FREE creative workshop, participants of all ages got hands-on with motion capture technology, CGI, and digital design to build their own avatars and bring a choreographed video game chase scene to life in real time. ➡️ Learn more about our upcoming Create-athons at the link in our bio!

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Fav stills from our @arca1000000 Tour Video 1: Mequetrefe by @team.rolfes (and a couple from another piece we’ll share soon) Originally debuted at Coachella 2025 and featured in tour performances afterward, this video (cropped and clipped in this post) was performed by us remixing Arca’s motion-captured movements into a fragmented hybrid choreography. It captures multiple manifestations of a character sculpted for Arca’s series of Mutant;Destrudo performances at the Park Avenue Armory NYC in 2023. Video Credits: @sam.rolfes : Director, Lead Animation, Virtual Camera, Character Design @andy.rolfes Lead Production, FX Design, Technical Director, Technical Animator @s_a_mayer : Character Design, Environmental Design @array_1337 : Virtual Hair, Avatar System @kevinpeterhe : Lighting Design Arca Credits: Creative Director: Arca Co Creative Lead & Video Design Director: @henriqueghersi More documentation of this series of work coming soon <3

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@arca1000000 Tour Video 1: Mequetrefe by @team.rolfes Originally debuted at Coachella 2025 and featured in tour performances afterward, this video (cropped and clipped in this post) was performed by us remixing Arca’s motion-captured movements into a fragmented hybrid choreography. It captures multiple manifestations of a character sculpted for Arca’s series of Mutant;Destrudo performances at the Park Avenue Armory NYC in 2023. Video Credits: @sam.rolfes : Director, Lead Animation, Virtual Camera, Character Design @andy.rolfes Lead Production, FX Design, Technical Director, Technical Animator @s_a_mayer : Character Design, Environmental Design @array_1337 : Virtual Hair, Avatar System @kevinpeterhe : Lighting Design Arca Credits: Creative Director: Arca Co Creative Lead & Video Design Director: @henriqueghersi More documentation of this series of work coming soon <3

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Honored and excited to be selected as a @lincolncenter ‘25-’26 Collider Fellow alongside 5 other brilliant artists: @kevinpeterhe @rashaadnewsome @cinthjiac @jamesallistersprang and @stephanie.dinkins Virtual performance (or however you’d like to contextualize it; club-theatre, real-time narrative, or otherwise) is at an inflection point, as artists and audiences around the world reach similar conclusions about the exhilarating potential for the medium. I’ll rant more about this later… My time during the Lincoln Center Collider Fellowship will be spent both working to develop a more robust infrastructure for this burgeoning medium and community, and in developing our upcoming new stories, shows, and showcases we’ve only begun to scratch the surface of. Worth mentioning is while I’ve personally been selected as a Collider Fellow, the work that @team.rolfes does is the result of the collective vision of @andy.rolfes , @bausaus , @array_1337 and our other friends and collaborators; themselves pioneering artists in their own right. 💖🥂💖🥂 📸@layer_nyc

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7 months ago

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🏁 Australia Next Week: a prototype new live-animated show from @team.rolfes , The Mustang Speedrun, in Melbourne Australia at @acmionline @nowornever.melb Aug 26th, and @soft_centre Sydney Aug 29th Mustang Speedrun is a story about taking your virtual performance mech on a road trip across a future frontier in search of glory, and features a soundtrack that includes @petalsupplyco & @flt.n3sss , writing by @jacob_cyberspace , and characters, set dressing, #mocap #vr #puppeted #av procedural #xr sound design, and more by @s_a_mayer @502.bg @robruthco @bausaus @gan.tttt @ina_ccchen @ben.adman & more (Shot at @zerospace 💖)

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8 months ago

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★STARTING TONIGHT: DISKOKINA LA★ Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday — Virtual Performers, AV Programmers, Electronic Influencers, DJs, Popstars, Hackers and Dancers from around the world will gather to do battle in Glendale, Los Angeles on @svstudiosla ’s 35ft LED wall for the coveted title of AV Champion. Btw… OPEN BAR 🥂. Led by @servideo & Kina, the world’s first AI-Superfan ⋆⭒ LIVE PERFORMANCES AND AV THEATRE˚.⋆ ‘321Rule’ Live virtual theatre by @team.rolfes , starring @katmarikoz ‘Passage’ Live A/V Cinema by @Kevinpeterhe , starring @flt.n3sss ‘@club_cringe Live’, starring @uffieufficial in collab w @502.bg @dj_dave____ @1800.pain @ina_ccchen @cabbibo @cerspense ♫₊˚DJ SETS˚.🎧 @nikki__nair B2B @blaketheman1000 @lilguccipurse B2B @worldwidegoth @jensillen @Sam.rolfes ✰ SUPPORTED BY ✰ @ka5sh @playslimecore @flipkostic @sashab_xd @alicescope Spread across three nights at a top-secret warehouse location, it will be up to you, the all-knowing audience, to determine who will take home the crown and who will leave in tears. When the dust finally settles, Real-Time Club-Theatre may never be the same again. #LA #VR #XR #AV ⋆ ༺Ƹ★ (ꐦ ◣‸◢) ★ Ʒ༻ ⋆ 🎟 DISKOKINA.LIVE

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⋆★THIS WEEK: @hanatruly & @playslimecore ’s Nova go b2b live on-stream, alongside a stacked lineup this Thursday, Friday, & Sat ⋆★ At Diskokina LA this July 17/8/19, Virtual Performers, AV Programmers, Electronic Influencers, DJs, Popstars, Hackers and Dancers from around the world will gather to do battle in Glendale, Los Angeles on @svstudiosla ’s 35ft LED wall for the coveted title of AV Champion. Btw… OPEN BAR 🥂. Led by @servideo & Kina, the world’s first AI-Superfan ⋆⭒ LIVE PERFORMANCES AND AV THEATRE˚.⋆ ‘321Rule’ Live virtual theatre by @team.rolfes , starring @katmarikoz ‘Passage’ Live A/V Cinema by @Kevinpeterhe , starring @flt.n3sss ‘@club_cringe Live’, starring @uffieufficial in collab w @502.bg @dj_dave____ @1800.pain @ina_ccchen @cabbibo @cerspense ♫₊˚DJ SETS˚.🎧 @nikki__nair B2B @blaketheman1000 @lilguccipurse B2B @worldwidegoth @jensillen @Sam.rolfes ✰ SUPPORTED BY ✰ @ka5sh @playslimecore @flipkostic @sashab_xd @alicescope Spread across three nights at a top-secret warehouse location, it will be up to you, the all-knowing audience, to determine who will take home the crown and who will leave in tears. When the dust finally settles, Real-Time Club-Theatre may never be the same again. ⋆ ༺Ƹ★ (ꐦ ◣‸◢) ★ Ʒ༻ ⋆ 🎟 DISKOKINA.LIVE

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