Digital Art Show

Image: Pretty Little Things

Famous When Dead has a new website which we think is rather good.
You can even buy stuff, including a print of this picture and badges etc.

www.famouswhendead.com

VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival of Girona (Spain)

REMEMBER!

- Deadline for entries at the competition is 27th of June 2008.

This year VAD will be October 2008, 15th to 19th .

For further information you can visit our website www.vadfestival.net

Keep VAD!

Big news from the Director of the Museum of Computer Art (MOCA) which until now has been purely virtual

I just signed a lease for the Museum of Computer Art’s own live physical gallery in New York.

You can read about it and get a first glimpse here:

http://moca.virtual.museum/idon/idonblog.asp

I hope you will want to visit and participate. I’ll keep you informed as the gallery takes shape.

‘Hat Man’ limited edition computer art by Ringo Starr

Don’t worry – all the money from sales goes to charity.

“I started in the late nineties with my computer art. While I was touring it gave me something to do in all those crazy hotels you have to stay in on the road” – Ringo 2005

“Most of the titles for my pieces arrived because on computer you have to call them something , so I have. The easy way to look at it is, if it has a hat on – it will probably be called Hat Man” – Ringo 2005

www.ringostarrart.com

VAD call for entries 2008!

We are pleased to inform you that you can send your videos, digital works, video installations, etc. to VAD, Video and Digital Arts International Festival Competition of Girona (Spain), that will take place from October 15th to 19th. 2008

This year we open three different sections with a prize of 2.000€ each one: single-channel video, installation/ interactive piece and visual performance/concert.

Besides, all authors working on the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion – Languedoc-Rousillón, Midi-Pyrénées and Catalonia – can also compete for the Corpus Media-Euroregion award of 2.000€.

We invite you to visit our website www.vadfestival.net were you will find all the necessary information to participate: application form, terms and conditions, awards, etc. as well as previous program of the festival.

Attention!
Deadline for submitting works: 27th June.

Tell all your friends!

VAD Festival Internacional de Vídeo i Arts Digitals
Plaça de l’Hospital, 6.
17004 Girona
T. 972 20 20 13
www.vadfestival.net
info@vadfestival.net

The Art of Aardman at the Illustration Cupboard

15 May – 07 June 2008
22 Bury St, London, SW1Y 6AL

The Illustration Cupboard in association with Aardman Animations is delighted to present for the first time an exhibition of the original artwork by these world famous studios including Oscar winner Nick Park, Peter Lord and the Aardman Animations studio.

Aardman Animations’ films are now world famous, and the much-loved heroes Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep as well as the original claymation cult character Morph have all become household names.

Included will be original work by both Nick Park and Peter Lord with character studies, film storyboards and character development artwork. All artwork will be on view for at the gallery for enthusiasts and collectors to see and will be available for purchase offering enthusiasts an unmissable opportunity.

To further celebrate the launch of this exhibit, Aardman Animations and The Illustration Cupboard have produced unique giclée edition of the original Morph still photography. This edition will be limited to only 95 and each will be signed and numbered by creator, animator and Aardman founder member Peter Lord.

Aardman Animations was founded in 1976 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. The first major commission for the studio was to produce animated sequences for the children’s art series Vision On with the popular animated clay character Morph. Nick Park’s subsequent Creature Comforts was the first Aardman production to win a first Academy Award Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1990.

Nick Park also developed the now world-famous clay-modeled shorts featuring the adventures of two unlikely heroes Wallace and Gromit in A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. The first won a BAFTA and the subsequent two both Oscars in 1993 and 1995 respectively. In 2000 Aardman Animations produced their first feature film Chicken Run, which was an international hit. This was followed in 1995 by Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit for which Aardman and Nick Park won a further Oscar. More recently the studio has had great success with its character Shaun the Sheep, the star of his own CBBC TV show.

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm
Saturday 12pm to 5pm

www.illustrationcupboard.com

So Futuresonic 2008 has finished but, of course, the associated Digital Show exhibition will always been online in our gallery pages.

Next show is planned to coincide with the Liverpool Biennial which opens September 20th 2008 so look out for the call for entries fairly soon.

Digital Show 3 is now Open.
Part of the EVNTS strand for Futuresonic 2008. May 1 to 5 2008

50 images by top international digital artists have been selected on the theme of ‘People’

Visit the Gallery and Enjoy the show

Full Programme, Brochure & Schedule Now Online
Futuresonic 2008
1 – 5 May 2008, Manchester UK

View now www.futuresonic.com

Includes our Digital Show (www.digitalshow.co.uk)

Visit the new festival website to view full programme and download the Festival Brochure and Festival Schedule.

You can download the Festival Brochure

Tickets selling fast, book now to avoid disappointment.

Book Tickets

Futuresonic 2008
Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas

5 days and nights of live music, art premiers, exhibitions, club nights and events featuring a world-class programme of over 300 artists, musicians and mavericks in 30 venues and spaces across Manchester city centre.

Futuresonic Art

Social Networking Unplugged
1 – 5 May (some exhibitions continue until 17 May)

The first major art exhibition worldwide on social networking will transform Manchester into the most sociable city on the planet. Featuring newly commissioned artworks in free exhibitions and happenings all over Manchester.

Futuresonic Music

1 – 5 May
Venues across the city

The world-renowned music strand is proud to present Wu-Tang Clan’s The RZA as Bobby Digital and seminal art punk pioneers Wire. Just two of many acclaimed musicians and artists performing at this year’s festival.

Futuresonic Conference:
The Social Technologies Summit

1 – 2 May (supporting events 30 April & 3 May)

At the heart of the festival, the Futuresonic Conference: The Social Technologies Summit brings together opinion formers, futurologists, artists, researchers, technologists and scientists to explore the latest upgrade affecting today’s digital culture. Plus hands-on workshops and supporting events including Dirt Party, Nokia Mash Reality, Future Culture, Leonardo Education Forum, Future Networks and the Freewear fashion show.

AND MORE..

The Futuresonic Social & EVNTS
See website for details

Futuresonic 2008 also features The Futuresonic Social, a free festival space inside and outside Contact Theatre featuring live music performed all weekend, artists serving cakes and tea, a surround-sound cinema in a family caravan and more, and EVNTS, a festival-within-the-festival featuring 30 events city wide.

Tickets

Festival Music Pass

Weekender Wristband : The Festival Music Pass: GBP 45
Gives access to key music and live events.

Delegate Pass

Delegate Pass: GBP 100 in advance
Gives access to Futuresonic Conference and live and music events.

Individual tickets also on sale.
All tickets subject to terms and capacity

Visit Ticket Info

Hotline: 0844 847 2431

Supported by

FutureEverything, Arts Council England, Manchester City Council, Lancaster University, Imagination Lancaster, Institute of Advanced Studies, Piccadilly Partnership, Contact, Martin Stockley Associates, Lone Wolf, Toasted, Saville, Last.fm, City College Manchester, Art Attack, Cube.

From our friends at The LittleChimpSociety…

Just a short and sweet newsletter. Although a number of you already know, I just wanted to bring to the attention to those who don’t that recently the LCS was plagiarized (images and LCS interviews) and published as a book called Colorful Illustrations 93 degrees C! This was done without the knowledge or permission of me or anyone involved.

For more information read my blog post about it…
http://apefluff.com/colorful-illustrations-93c-please-do-not-buy-this-book/

What can you do to help?

Please make as many people aware of this as possible by linking to the above post from any social networks, blogs, portal, or news submission sites you can get to. This will bring awareness to the situation and hopeful shame the resellers into removing it from there stock and sites.

And if anyone is feeling brave please ring Index Book on (+34) 93 454 55 47 and ask them POLITELY to stop selling it Please they are Spanish, but have English speaking staff.

I personally use http://www.jajah.com/ for long distance calls.

Thanks for your time and I appreciate your continued support.

Darren Di Lieto
LCS Senior Editor