Following from the original edition in 2003 founded in Perm, Russia [1386km east of Moscow] Machinista is a migrating festival exploring, celebrating and questioning the ideas of "artificial intelligence in the arts" and "human-machine interaction".
machinista.org features contributions to the 2004 Machinista festival in Glasgow, 7-9 May.
Archive for April, 2004
Machinista 2004
KDLAB / NikeLab: Art of Speed
Expect to see NikeLab's Art of Speed project featuring multi-disciplinary moving imagemaker-created shorts all over the Web and at digital film festivals globally shortly.
The Computerlove site has a great preview of the collection featuring Les Jumelles by KDLAB.
Art of Speed will be featured at nikelab.
New Steamboy trailer
Latest trailer available for the much-anticipated masterpiece by virtuoso animé director, Katsuhiro Otomo:
Official site | Trailer [QT 16.1M]
Steamboy is the next feature film by Katsuhiro Otomo. This much-delayed movie, originally dated for release in October 2003, is to be released mid-July, 2004 in Japan.
New Apple AV software
Apple ramps up their AV line-up, including new HD and Pro versions of their video editing suites.
Apple Pro Software line-up :
Final Cut Pro HD (editing) | Motion (motion graphics) | DVD Studio Pro 3 (DVD authoring) | Shake 3.5 (effects compositing) | Logic Pro 6 (sound composition)
The accompanying release of Xsan, a clustered filesystem for Mac OS X adds a high-performance storage solution for a production network using Xserve RAID
On a more consumer-facing level Movie Montage 1.
Ciberart-Bilbao new technology festival
'CIBER@RT - BILBAO 2004 is another 'International festival of new technologies, art + communication', held 23-30 April, 2004. While it has the usual mix of computer animation screenings, multimedia showcases, net art and live acts, the event stands out with the interactive installations on offer and a total of 237 works in its exhibitiion.
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Kill Bill Vol.2 Japan remix
Kill Bill Vol.2 opening to stellar audiences illustrates the cross-over potential for genre-fusing, boundary-defying cinema when packaged intelligently. Tarantino, of course, is a master at this.
Dead Leaves animated film
With a lurid superkinetic feel provided by Imaitoonz, Dead Leaves is an accelerated audiovisual thrill-ride animé. Taking lavish influence from Japanese mecha, anthropomorphism, and computer-game intros, this new-wave animated feature film has been a recent hit at selected Asian film festivals including Resfest Japan, and Tokyo animé expo. Its primary-coloured delights should hit European animation festivals this year.
Hollywood opening eyes to gaming
Technology > Out of Hollywood, Rising Fascination With Video Games" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/10/technology/10GAME.
Mobile soap don't wash
A number of Internet sources have reported on Fox Lab's Lucy Hood previewing a made-for-mobile phone soap, Hotel Franklin, at the recent MIPTV market in Cannes.
Pitched at 1 minute in length (the 'natural length for phone viewing' according to Hood, senior VP of content and marketing at Fox) the cliff-hanger episodes throw us into the world of a man trying to discover if a mysterious girl in a hotel is actually an expensive call girl.
Filmed specifically for the constraints of limited size mobile phone screens, the limited information available so far has the distinct whiff of the webisodic genre - the short-lived short form internet soap and teen dramas of the mid-nineties.
PSX-PS3-PSP synergies
Latest news emerging on Sony hardware plans bring together more details of how their 'ubiquitous network strategy' will play out with their new hardware. News emerging from controversial remarks by SCEE President David Reeves includes:
Two versions of PS3: Home Server version nearer to PSX functionality, including hard drive, stripped down Games machine for hardcore next-gen gamers.
PSP titles to be region-free, but UMD movies likely to include additional functionality
Integral broadband distribution highlights Sony's commitment to downloadable game and add-ons strategy.
