Adobe After Effects is the industry leading platform for compositing and motion graphics. Ravensbourne College and 01zero-one as partners in the Ravensbourne Skillset Media Academy have received funding from Skillset Film CPD fund to run an introduction and an advanced course. Courses are designed and led by Paul Mumford and draw upon a single animated project from which techniques can be taught.
To book contact Polly at info@01zero-one.co.uk or call on 020 7025 1985.
On 2nd April 2009 Keane will make history with the world’s first ever live webcast in 3D, from Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios, London.
The band will record the live session at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios, the home of The Beatles historic first ever satellite broadcast, and will feature 3d anaglyph graphics from digital artists D-Fuse. 3D glasses will be available from keanemusic.com, and all retailers with the 7′ of the new single ‘Better Than This’. Labmeta got involved with DFuse and Mike Faulkner to work on the animation and anaglyph production.
These designs are examples from the prototype stage of a current project. Final version expected to become public later this year.
These designs are examples from the prototype stage of a current project. Final version expected to become public later this year.
“Strata#2” is an audio-visual installation that explores the icons of the famous Rose windows in various Paris cathedrals and churchs and focuses on the layering of times, functions and representations. Through sound and visual effects it concentrates on the collective imagery of particular buildings, reflecting upon the stratified historical meanings they detain in the western society through time. This work is directed by Quayola for installation in the St Eustache Cathedral for the 2009 NEMO festival.
“Philips Lumalive is a new medium to convey emotions and messages. It creates a positive spirit and boosts your energy level. We use colorful dynamic animations on textile products like garments, to make an unexpected striking appearance. By integrating multicolor LEDs (light-emitting diodes) into textile objects Philips Lumalive transforms them into communication platforms, while their textile look & feel retains. ” Labmeta is currently working with Phillips to develop content for Lumalive panels at various industry events.
IFA is the world’s largest consumer electronics event. It’s a trade show where companies from all over the world show off their most exciting new electronic technologies. The highly succesful agency Fallon approached DFuse alongside Hexstatic to create eight, 2 minute, films to showcase the most exciting products Sony is launching this year. Projected in HD on two massive screens in a large Sony event space DFuse undertook four animated videos showcasing a new E-Book reader, Edgelight technology and the Bravia television. Paul got involved as an animator for the project designing and animating a two minute animtion for the Sony Ebook reader under the direction of Mike Faulkner.
Lightrhythm returns with the second release of their new audiovisual series Notations. Always innovative and utterly inspiring, the series shows handpicked artists from Europe, Japan and the Americas. Continuing to deliver imaginative content and hosting award winning artists “Notations 02” is aiming for release later this year. The name, inspired by the book “Notations” (compiled by John Cage) aimed to also explore the new techniques in visualization of sound in the same way that Cage inspired new forms of written music. For this reason Lightrhythm consciously sought out matured approaches to a diversity of music. The result encompasses a full spectrum of sound and light; classical compositions, electronic interpretations; each track unearthing a fresh, motivating re-approach towards visual arts and vjing. The works fill an expanse of imagination and intellect, a playful choreographed of light, shape and sound.
For this release an audiovisual single remastered from my Autometa project will be released together with a remix by a guest producer.
As part of Kylie Minogue’s 2008 World Tour UVA were approached to concieve and implement the stage design. The show was divided into tracks and numerous designers were commissioned to produce animated content for a set of 40ft moving LED panels. Quayola was given the track “In Your Eyes” and i was approached to assist on the animation. The video consists of giant panels that act like a graphic equaliser, shapes, patterns and movement of graphic elements bump move and slide in time to the music.
The project “Visual Music” (2007–2008) is conceived by the media art gallery fluctuating images. Over the course of two years, the project will deal with the diverse artistic and institutional aspects of Visual Music. Cornelia and Holger from the gallery have invited scientists, artists and curators to focus their special perspectives on the topic.
As a part of this publication Paul Mumford has contributed both written and audiovisual pieces of work.
The project will end with the publication “audio • visual“ (end 2008).
Event producers Balance-London booked Ne1co to produce animated graphics for Speedo’s 80th year celebrations. On the same occasion, the swimwear name also launched their latest competition bodysuit - the FASTSKIN LZR RACER - concurrently in four different venues across the world: London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney.
I worked in tandem with the agency to design and animate a series of animations and loops which Oli Sorenson presented as a live rendition for the London event using imagery of the FASTSKIN LZR RACER in action in combination with racing, time and space travel imagery. Pre-recorded VJ mixes were sent to the other venues, and played back on DVDs.
NE1CO Presents: The Av Social / Late at Tate. Featuring Hiraki Sawa, Black Out Arts, Bopa, Bruno Tait and The Narrative Lab. Friday 4th April 2008. The Tate Britain. As part of the Late at Tate Series of events the audiovisual collective NE1CO present a very special ambient edition of London’s #1 audiovisual event, the AV Social. Setting up camp amongst the dramatic backdrop of neo-classical sculptures and renaissance paintings at the Tate Britain you’ll find installations, performances and screenings from some of Europe’s finest VJs and audiovisual artists. As an ambient soundtrack washes throughout the building your invited to come and explore both the Tate exhibits and modern works. Contemporary video artist Hiraki Sawa will be showing his very own playful and sensitive blend of miniature worlds in domestic environments, Rod Maclachlan and Jem Noble from Black Out Arts will be performing a live audiovisual work using live cameras and live sampling techniques, while Bopa and Bruno Tait present a collaborative slide and video installation using moving head video projections. Also featured is a specially curated screening and presentation by the Narrative Lab, inviting the Editors of the VJTheory book to show and tell some experimental works alongside screened material from artists all over Europe including Solu, Visual Kitchen, Girrafentoast, Ben Sheppee, Visualnaut, Oxygen, ZooZooZoo, Spark and Lucidhouse.
The Narrative Lab is a creative network and group of friends, who love to VJ and make moving images. Our work, and the work we love, use narrative techniques to enrich our work and bring emotion and potency to it. We don’t think VJing should be like film, rather we see other VJs and AV performers using narrative structures and devices in creative and unusual ways, and we want to showcase a cross-section of performers using narrative to create a language of VJing, and to engage the audience in alternative ways.We have selected a screening programme which will run as follows. Information on the artists, where given, is included below.
The DJmag Top 100 DJs 2007 is a snapshot of a DJ’s current popularity and visibility — as voted for by the public. This year was a record-breaking year with 345,000 legitimate votes, smashing last year’s total of 217,000 – an increase of nearly 60%. For the 2007 award ceremony NE1CO were asked to produce all the graphics and for the mammoth club event taking place in London’s SE1 Club with special guest Beardyman on the Mic.
VIDOS is a audiovisual book and DVD project produced in collaboration between Michale Fakesch and internationally acclaimed and highly awarded artists, filmmakers, directors, animators and designers such as zeitguised (UK), Quayola (UK), Paul Mumford (UK), Paolo Lima/MusaWorkLab (Portugal), Brian Bixby/Keep Adding (USA), Scott Pagano/Neither Field (USA), Mateuniverse/Psyop (USA), Marcelo Baldin (Brasil), Giraffentoast (Germany), Markus Wambsganss/Kaliber16 (Germany), Antonin de Bemels (Belgium), Sam Vanoverschelde/Visual Kitchen (Belgium) and many others. On about 30 pages the catalogue features artwork by all participating video artists and designers, inspired by Michael Fakesch’s music. Its exciting funky sounds, unique visuals and compelling multi-disciplinary approach make “Vidos” an eye’n’earblazing example of how music can be visualised today.
Music by Michael Fakesch and Taprikk Sweezee. Curated by Cornelia and Holger Lund (fluctuating images). Vidos as DVD-Publication with booklet will be out soon.
The project is a commissison from Onedotzero to the Quayola studio for the MTV Bloom competition. The work is an investigation into the icons of Rome’s renaissance architecture and the dissolution of their compactness. Through a combination of photographs and computer-generated graphics, “Rome” aims to create a series of images where the subject is de-contextualized from its historical and cultural implications. A process of metamorphosis transforms the architectural matter. Its solid three-dimensional spatiality mutates into an ephemeral twodimensional skin made of geometrical shapes and colors, obtaining a new incompact reality. The images represent these transmutations in a specific moment in time, like if an external spectator photographed them. Assuming different meanings, the represented buildings appear under a new perspective that focuses on their images rather than their historical and architectural significance.
Building on early work and collaborations with the Narrative Lab, Paul’s intentions were always to continue building graphic narrative films. This is the first of his solo attempts to create a feature length audiovisual performance. Autometa is the story of a corporation, one that we see running a sinister machine, that operates upon the people of the city, taking their dreams and hopes, harvesting them and selling them around the world in a global economy. In a politically unstable landscape what happens when the public uprise? The world of Autometa erupts, forcing a world of the hybrids and dreamy constructions to collid in impossible ways.
Produced as a motion graphic film, this work has been performed and screened at many media festivals and events across europe such as mapping, sonar and urban artforms. More recently an extract has been released as an audiovisual single on the DVD label Lightryhtymvisuals.
