Image: Digitalis © Sebastian Buerkner

Animate OPEN: Digitalis

A fresh open for experiments in animation

Animate Projects – the champion of experimental animation – announces a call for its first online exhibition to be selected from an open submission.

The Animate OPEN is part of Digitalis, a strand of activities throughout 2011 that sets out to explore, question, subvert or confound our expectations of art and the ‘digital’. And that includes ‘anti-digital’ – handmade, physically crafted animation.

Call for submissions deadline: 20 June 2011

Exhibition online: from July 2011

Jury Prize: £1000

Audience Prize: £300

Guidelines

Entry: free of charge

For the Animate OPEN, Animate Projects is looking for experimental works by UK based artists, animators and filmmakers. The selected films will be presented online at animateprojects.org, from July 2011, accompanied by interviews with the artists. The films will also be featured in the Digitalis publication and at Digitalis events later in the year. Gary Thomas, Director of Animate Projects says: “We hope that the inaugural Animate OPEN will prove to be a platform bursting with experiment, to inspire and provoke discussions around creativity and the digital. And we are looking forward to discovering some awe inspiring stuff.”

The Animate OPEN Jury will select up to ten films for exhibition and there will be  two cash prizes – one awarded by the Jury (£1000), and an Audience prize (£300) voted for by visitors to the exhibition.

The Jury members are Francesca Gavin, writer, curator and Visual Arts Editor at Dazed & Confused; Rebecca Shatwell, Director, AV Festival; Gary Thomas, Director, Animate Projects; and artist and music video director, David Wilson.

The Animate OPEN is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Submission guidelines

Deadline for submissions: 10am, Monday 20 June 2011

The Animate OPEN exhibition will be online from July at animateprojects.org.

If you have any other enquiries please email digitalis@animateprojects.org

Animate OPEN: Digitalis press release

Gareth Pugh A/W 09, Ruth Hogben

In honour of London Fashion Week we bring you this stunning short that showcases British avant-garde designer Gareth Pugh’s Autumn/Winter 09 collection. The piece was directed by London-based filmmaker Ruth Hogben, with Styling by Editor of Fashion at Dazed and Confused, Kate Shillingford.

And for a taster of Gareth Pugh’s collection Spring/Summer 2010, check out the interactive cube created by Gareth Pugh, Ruth Hogben, Simon Costin and Matthew Stone on SHOWstudio.com.

SHOWstudio currently has a retrospective exhibition showing at London’s Somerset House until 20 December 2009. The exhibition features a selection of SHOWstudio’s fashion and art projects, a programme of the fashion films and a series of live fashion shoots within Somerset House open to the public. The live shoots are also available to view via webcast.

Credits
Direction and Edit: Ruth Hogben
Styling: Katie Shillingford
Set Design: Simon Costin
Model: Natasa Vojnovic
Fashion: Gareth Pugh
Soundtrack: Matthew Stone