Swatch,NuFormer,Moon,Air,Troika,Holly Throsby feat Bonnie 'Prince' Billy,Makoto Yabuki, Harvie Krumpet,Festo Interactive Wall, Bonobo, Passion Pit

The Swatch Young Illustrators Award is a unique competition awarding creativity and innovation in personal contemporary illustration and graphics. The award encourages and supports designers in their artistic practice and offers an international and worldwide recognized platform to them. Illustrative art works, art projects with graphic influences, animations and book art objects qualify for submission.

The nominees of the Swatch Young Illustrators Award will be invited to Berlin and get the opportunity to exhibit their work at Illustrative 2009 in Berlin. The winners await prizes worth 6.000 Euros as well as publications and illustration agency contracts and will also be featured in future international shows. One winner will be invited to design a Swatch Watch – a great opportunity to join the ranks of artists such as Kiki Picasso, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman and Keith Haring.

Deadline - September 30th, 2009

for more info visit Illustrative



Impressive and stylish projections on buildings, a renewing way of communicating.For those who want to carry out a message in a striking and visually attractive way with guaranteed exposure: 3D Projection on buildings is the communication tool of 2009, and what an impact!

NuFormer Digital Media develops high-skill 3D video mapping projections. These 3D projections will be custom-made to fit any specific building and will be exposed by a battery of powerful projectors.

Watch | Projection on Buildings



Co-written and directed by Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie) Moon is more quiet introspection than 2001: A Space Odyssey acid trip or Event Horizon deep-space psycho horror. Rockwell delivers an impressive performance as both Sam Bells, and the straightforward no-twists, no-frills plot is as simple, effective, and refreshing as the miniatures used for the exterior establishing shots. Movies online

Watch | Moon



French duo Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel , Air , have released their new single , It's called "Do the Joy," new album Love 2 , october 5th.

Free download Here



CLOUD, A Digital Sculpture For British Airways Terminal 5
Troika was commissioned by Artwise Curators to create a signature piece for the entrance of the new British Airways luxury lounges in Heathrow Terminal 5.

In response, we created 'Cloud', a five meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots that can be individually addressed by a computer to animate the entire skin of the sculpture. Flip-dots were conventionally used in the 70s and 80s to create signs in train-stations and airports. By audibly flipping between black and silver, the flip-dots create mesmerizing waves as they chase across the surface of ‘Cloud’. Reflecting its surrounding colours, the mechanical mass is transformed into an organic form that appears to come alive, shimmering and flirting with the onlookers that pass by. Troika

Watch | Cloud



Official music video for the song ‘Would You?’ by Holly Throsby, with guest vocals by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. The song revolves around a simple question: “Would you want somebody new?”. The clip drifts slowly in and out of reality - lights pass and bodies fall, on a slow, dark night, on the way home in the car.

Watch | Holly Throsby feat. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - 'Would You?'



Makoto Yabuki works as a director/ art director at Tokyo ,Japan.
He started his career as a visual designer in 1997 ,and joined TANGRAM.co.ltd at its establishment in 2003 as director. His artistic range is expansive; among his recent works are "scope" ,"MANAKAI",and "CONFINE(S)". His works have been presented in film festivals such as SIGGRAPH, onedotzero, artfutura, ARS Electronica.

Watch | As One
Watch | Confine(s)



Winner of the 2004 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, Harvie Krumpet is the biography of an ordinary man seemingly cursed with bad luck. From being born with Tourette Syndrome to getting struck by lightning; from having his testicle removed to developing Alzheimer's disease; Harvie's troubles seem unending ! Yet, Harvie learns many lessons about life and enjoys its many fruits. He finds love, freedom, nudity and ultimately the true meaning of what it is to be human.

Watch | Harvie Krumpet



The FinRay structure is a prototype for an emotive wall. The emotive FinRay wall is composed of seven separate wall pieces, which can swing their body back and forth. Embedded in the skin of the FinRay are arrays of LED luminaries, which can be programmed individually to give personalized information or just to create an ambient luminescent atmosphere. Festo

Watch | Festo Interactive Wall



New video for the forthcoming single from Bonobo 'The Keeper', out on 14th September 2009 on Ninja Tune.

Watch | Bonobo - The Keeper



The official video from Passion Pit for 'To Kingdom Come' to be released on August 24th.

Watch | Passion Pit - To Kingdom Come

Future Shorts,Passion Pit,Rosemarie Fiore,Lights on,Grizzly Bear,Fete de la Musique,Waves to Waves,I Love Video Art,The Clock Clock,Precare

THE LARGEST SHORT FILM NETWORK IN THE WORLD

Future Shorts is one of the leading and most innovative short film labels. Since 2003, Future Shorts has created a rapidly expanding network that allows filmmakers the opportunity to have their work seen on the largest theatrical platform worldwide. Passionately believing in getting short films seen and creating a culture around the medium, Future Shorts is recognised by filmmakers, the industry and press alike as the cutting-edge short film label. Future Shorts is a worldwide film festival as well as a distributor, sales agent, consultancy service and DVD label. This is fresh cinema- Future Shorts.

EXHIBITION
Future Shorts Exhibition works as a worldwide short film festival providing an alternative system to the traditional film festival model. Filmmakers have the chance to get their work seen all over the world from just one submission. Films that are selected to join our monthly programme are currently being shown at 20 UK venues ­ both theatrical and non-theatrical ­ with a minimum of 10 further cities scheduled to join the network in 2007.

The international network currently comprises of more than 100 cities and 25 countries worldwide conducting regular Future Shorts screenings. Future Shorts Exhibition aims to provide an alternative cinematic experience, where screenings are often accompanied by other multimedia elements including live music and rescores, performers and installations. Future Shorts
Amsterdam , 28 May @ 301



Super cool video from the Passion Pit debut Lp Manners .

Watch | Passion Pit - The Reeling



"Firework Drawings" These large works on paper are made by exploding and containing live fireworks, resulting in bursts of saturated color that are overlaped and collaged into abstract compositions. Rosemarie Fiore



Lights on is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, which has a facade that contains 1085 LED controllable windows. The windows' colors are changed in realtime with music that's broadcasted on speakers surrounding the building.

visuals coded in openframeworks by zachary lieberman, joel gethin lewis and damian stewart (yesyesno). music by daito manabe, with support from Taeji Sawai and Kyoko Koyama. we made this in three days :)

the performance is approximately 10 minutes long. this is an edit. also, we've recorded the output from the software (audio / OSC) and this performance can be replayed in the future for events, etc.

Watch | Lights On
Watch | Lights On2



(Unofficial): Edited with footage from Albert Lamorisse's "La Ballon Rouge" (The Red Balloon), and music from Grizzly Bear's "Veckatimest". It's been a while since my last video, but this one, I couldn't resist. All credits go to the beautiful footage and the equally beautiful song.

Watch | Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks



A free and popular event
The musicians are asked to perform for free, and all the concerts are free for the public. It’s the reason why they are used to play in open air areas as streets and parks or in public buildings like museums, train stations, castles… Furthermore, the Fête de la Musique is a way to encourage the major music institutions (orchestra, operas, choirs, etc.) to perform outside their usual locations. This kind of institutions can also welcome other types of music. In this way it offers an opportunity to develop exchanges between city centres and their outlying areas, to offer concerts in hospitals or in prisons, to promote encounters and exchanges between young musicians and well-known talents.

19 June , free concerts , Alva Noto [ Raster-Notion ] , Chloe [ Kill the Dj ] , Byetone , Darko
@ Recyclart Brussels



Human-generated electromagnetic waves are traveling over, around and through us all the time. Wifi, cellphones, radio, and television broadcast all create electromagnetic fields that are 'loud' compared to the natural background, but imperceptible to the human senses. This invisible world is alive with activity that directly reflects our growing relationship to and dependence on, technology.

With specialized devices sensitive to changes in electromagnetic fields, detected changes are converted into electrical signals and a unique landscape of sound and structure is slowly uncovered. Snarling wires pulsate and grow in wild masses, cellular-like forms explode as bit torrents download files, and subtle reeds dance and dangle as cellular phone signals cross the room.

Watch | Waves to Waves



One consciousness involves the creation of a culture. And this is made by means of a process. If we wish it, the videoart can be consolidated like one of the most important artistic expressions of our days. It’s only necessary the desire of hundreds of persons around the world.

We’ll celebrate the “International Day of the Videoart”, next 22th of June. It’s an initiative of Optica Festival. From here, we invite you to take part of this event with your friends or individually, there where you’re.

Our goal is that the greater number of people celebrates and/or values the importance of the audiovisual culture, during this day.

It’s a question of making a photo of you or a group of people, and to send it to us by e-mail later. With the received photos, we’ll create a report of all things that happen this day around the world.

If you’re interested in participating, you can send us an e-mail with your full name, city and country at videoart.day@opticafestival.com. Culture Tv



The Clock Clock , by Swedish designers Humans since 1982 , made of 24 individual clocks, features 48 electronically-controlled analog clock hands which automatically rotate into the proper positions to tell you times

Watch | The Clock Clock



Precare is operating as an intermediator between property-owners of temporary vacant premises and artistic or social initiatives in need of workspace.
Since its origin PRECARE has been opening forteen buildings - for a period of six months to five years - and providing over a hunderd initiatives with a workspace.

Due to this success Precare is now also starting up in London, Barcelona and Milan.

Precare is a simple and efficient instrument to strengthen urban creative initiatives by reusing abandoned buildings as workspaces. PRECARE facilitates the 'intermediary use' of abandoned buildings. It not only provides a solution for the need for workspaces in the creative sector, it also creates a positive dynamic in neighbourhoods suffering from abandoned real estate.

After a first phase of informal support, (1999 - 2003 ), and a second more systematic laboratory phase in which instruments were designed, tested and disseminated ( 2003 - 2005 ), Precare has been working in a structural way on the actual use of a series of creative workspaces in empty buildings for almost two years. Precare