The catchily-titled 2004 Cimatics International Festival for live audiovisual arts and vj’ing is underway, in Brussels. It features a host of VJ and live cinema performances, between 25-31 October.
Highlights include Austrians Crossing, on the Vidok collective’s travelling movies; a live cinema performance using VJ tools to create a narrative work by Exparts; international artist [...]
Archive for October, 2004
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Video virtually overwhelms Turner prize
The Tate’s annual Turner Prize for contemporary art is both firmly screen-based, and politically charged this year. Tagged as a shortlist of buildings and battles by The Guardian, they seem to miss the point that it marks the clear renaissance and reinvigoration of video art, while also in the case of Langlands & Bell–whose [...]
Joy Division reanimation
C505 | “Shadowplay” by Joy Division, Reanimated
Inspired by Peter Saville’s iconic design of the Unknown Pleasures album by Joy Division, C505 have recreated a music video taking this signature style and applying it to vintage footage of the band playing on Granada Reports (which was a local Manchester TV programme). It takes a certain [...]
Jaguar X-ing over
Peter Cheung, famed for the slick and hip MTV animated series Aeon Flux (which is itself soon to be released as a live action feature), involved in Jaguar’s new webisode project developed by Global Beach.
x-ingover.com (Tedious Flash interface warning!)
Although the first webisode attempts to set up the suspense, it’s too slow moving and undramatic a [...]
Killing digital viewing
Just as we are on the verge of space-shifting viewing (to go with the ‘time-shifting’ all but necessary now in a post-VCR era where we have multi-channel time-starved modern worklives), the Hollywood studios want to stop it. The flurry of proposals in the U.S. legislature to neuter P2P networks and developers makes it all look [...]
U.S. Election video mashups
“Ever year, by law and by custom we meet here to threaten the world…”
Rev:USA is a project regenerating the spirit of Coldcut’s original Re:volution track. The remix project is well underway and more pertinent than ever with only a few weeks before the big election. Hosting video mashups and activist video bootlegs satirising and commenting [...]
Kaze: Ghost Warrior
Albee quit as an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation to go live in a cabin in the wilderness of Alaska. Here he created the animation he’d been wanting to make for years, and he did it alone, on two PC workstations.
He wanted to prove he could make an animated feature for $10 [...]
Cutting Nokia Shorts 2004 down to size
Why is Nokia Shorts 2004 actually a ’short film competition’ rather than one dealing with mobile film or chaku motion? Even more confounding, these shorts, apparently made specifically to be played via mobile phone, aren’t even going to be available for download onto them (according to The Guardian). Instead they are to be screened at [...]
Make Warp visuals
The audiovisual projects are coming thick and fast from Warp. News emerges on the follow-up to Warp Vs Creative Review, the successful music video ‘competition’ run by the label and magazine: Warp/CR Animate was so successful in turbocharging their promo video output they are doing it again.
Ten young filmmakers are wanted for a motion graphics [...]
Strangerhood: the Sims simulated
EA have teamed with ace machinima team Rooster Teeth Productions to showcase the virtual filmmaking capabilities of its newSims 2 release. Machinima takes another step to mainstreaming…
Episode 0, the trailer introduction to the new machinima sitcom The Strangerhood, is now online. Derived from the Sims 2 computer game engine. By the team behind the hit [...]
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