Planeta is a product studio focused on sound and media. We develop creative tools, unique VR/AR experiences, and hardware products. Our sister entity, OONI, is a virtual reality studio with expertise in photography and art. And our Space in the East Village of Manhattan is an active performance venue.

Space

295 E 8th St, New York, NY, 10009 USA

Visual Work

The following showcases Planeta’s original and collaborative projects with hypervisual mixed media.

GIPHY

Our partnership with GIPHY enables us to imagine wildly — to design and develop GIPHY Cam, GIPHY Says, and GIPHY World. We’ve been designing hardware for GIPHY, including an IRL Camera.

To.Be Camera

The iOS offshoot of our larger platform, the to.be Camera app uncovers a fantastic digital world beneath the surface of reality.

MoGA

The Museum of GIF Art is the first curated VR GIF art show from GIPHY Arts. The museum features over 20 artists' unique works spread through exhibition spaces spanning from absurd to serene.

To.Be

The first set of digital creation tools we developed, which includes a growing network of thousands of artists who have made and own extraordinary work.

DCF

Disco Curly Fries is our t-shirt printing adventure in Japan. Anyone can create their own designs using our 3D tool.

Team

  • Benny

    Benny carries the Southern California sunshine of his childhood, the icy Boston winds of his days in music school, and the Japanese mountain landscapes of his 20s to New York City, where he continues to work at the intersection of music, technology, and language.

  • Chris

    Chris is an iOS developer, who likes making things that make things. When he’s not coding up apps, he spends most of his time doing music stuff. His favorite website on the Internet is YouTube.

  • Dan

    Dan Brewster is a designer, programmer, and artist. He builds wacky games and apps.

  • Dylan

    Dylan is an artist and developer, creating experiences that play with perception and time.

  • Jimi

    Jimi is a narrative designer from New Jersey. The suburban wastes of his childhood help him appreciate the rich density of living in New York as well as its mundane beauty.

  • Joe

    This is Joe. He's spent the last 10 years developing connected products, applications, and experiences with emphasis on embedded and cloud computing, internet of things, mobile apps, and data. He also teaches at Parsons where he got an MFA in Design and Technology in 2010. He loves turtles.

  • Kelsey

    Kelsey has been called the swiss army knife.

  • Kosta

    Kosta is an alien operating at the intersection of art and tech, trying to understand what humans are. It appreciates their Art but finds their tech lacking and generally tries to help the humans but it’s unclear why.

  • Laura

    Can doodle.
    Likes to yell.
    Has a lot of things she wants to explore.
    Animates and programs experiences.
    Makes VR at Ooni.

  • Nick

    Nick doesn’t have a clear trajectory but has made many books, music releases, buttons and films, working with an assortment of artists that includes Jonas Mekas, Park Chan Wook, Moriyama Daido, Nick Waplington, Bruno S., Harmony Korine, and Justin Bieber.

  • Perry

    With over four decades of dedication, Perry is recognized as a stalwart of downtown New York's rebirth. He's worked with Basquiat, James Brown, RuPaul, and countless other artists over the years. His medium is the sound system, and he designs so that you don't just hear it with your ears.

  • Pilar

    Born in Spain and raised on the Internet, Pilar is fascinated with and puzzled by the nature of perception. It is for this reason that she loves to explore and create experiences in digital realities. She also likes to play music, draw cartoons, and eat paella, in no particular order

  • Sembo

    Sembo was crazy about skateboarding when he was in high school in Tokyo before sliding into the Internet world in the late 90s. He started the Internet Yami-Ichi - an IRL Internet flea market - and continues to create art with tricky programming skills.

  • Terrell

    Terrell Davis is a 19-year old artist based in Northern New Jersey and Chicago. Using pop culture as his medium, he turns objects from life—whether luxurious or ordinary—into 3d-rendered dreamscapes. He also works in other mediums such as video and graphic design.

Collaborators

  • Abandon Normal Devices Festival
  • Airpop
  • Jun Akaike
  • Matt Amato
  • Shirin Anlen
  • Nobuyoshi Araki
  • Andreas Arnold
  • Ars Electronica
  • Ayers Ashley
  • Jeremy Bailey
  • Ka Baird
  • Roger Ballen
  • Sammy Bananas
  • Ulli Barta
  • Cyro Batista
  • Matthew Beale
  • Marc Joseph Berg
  • Bibi Cornejo Borthwick
  • John Borthwick
  • Mark Borthwick
  • Perry Brandston
  • Chan Wook Park
  • Christina Chatfield
  • Nick Chirls
  • Jeff Chu
  • Alfonso Cid
  • Brian Close
  • Jim Colvill
  • Diego Cortez
  • Matthew Patterson Curry
  • DIS
  • Terrell Davis
  • Modou Dieng
  • Adam Downey
  • Dublab
  • EXONEMO
  • Electric Objects
  • Charlie Engman
  • Victor Esther
  • Claire Evans
  • Isaac Ezer
  • Fabberz
  • Mark Feldman
  • Floating Points
  • Cory Forsyth
  • Mario Forte
  • Josephine Foster
  • Greg Fox
  • Yuichiro Fujimoto
  • Fuzzywobble
  • Leo Gabin
  • Georgia
  • Emily Gervais
  • Jay Giampietro
  • Giphy
  • Giphy Arts
  • Griffin Goldsmith
  • Jack Greer
  • Derek Gripper
  • Jason Grisell
  • Matt Hackett
  • Enrique Hernandez
  • Frederick Heydt
  • Patrick Higgins
  • Sam Hillmer
  • Cafe Himalaya
  • Matt Holland
  • Christian Hultquist
  • John Johnson
  • Harmony Korine
  • Sergio Krakowski
  • Maggie Lee
  • Kenny Lerer
  • Lilgoverment
  • Arto Lindsay
  • Robert Lippok
  • Antonio Lizana
  • Luaka Bop
  • MONOM Berlin
  • Jiri Makovec
  • Matmos
  • Caitlin McMullen
  • Jonas Mekas
  • Jimmy Moffat
  • Oliver Moffat
  • Joygill Moriah
  • Mount Eerie
  • NSCNT
  • Yusuke Nagai
  • Reiko Nakamura
  • Common Name
  • Macrina Newhouse
  • Jehad Nga
  • Northern Spy Records
  • Chris Paik
  • Asher Penn
  • Phoenix
  • Red Hook Labs
  • Ernst Reijseger
  • Josh Rigling
  • Matteo Rinni
  • Patrick Russell
  • Bruno S.
  • SEX
  • Max Sanjulian
  • Malick Sidibe
  • Slow and Steady Wins the Race
  • Snohetta
  • Synchrodogs
  • Ryu Takahashi
  • The Rodina
  • Dirty Three
  • David Tisch
  • Tomorrow Lab
  • Tyson Tousant
  • Justin Tripp
  • Isabelita Virtual
  • Pete Vogl
  • Volvox Labs
  • Nick Waplington
  • We Are Here
  • Eric Welles- Nystrom
  • Donna Wingate
  • Alessandra Zeka
  • John Zobele
  • Zs

Planeta is located in the East Village of NYC, across from the beautiful Tompkins Square Park

295 E 8th St
New York, NY, 10009 USA

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