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O.K. PERIODICALS LAUNCH
O.K. Periodicals issue #5 launch 30th October at Roodkapje starting at 19:00 hrs. Make sure you are there! Drinks, music and deejay’s!
O.K. PARKING is a Dutch graphic/interaction design studio. Next to working for clients William van Giessen and Joost van der Steen initiate independent projects such as O.K. Periodicals and the O.K. Festival. They will also be speaking at the keynote sessions in the Cinerama at the 28th.Periodicals is self financing and contains no advertising, this issue of Perodicals covers articles about the human body but also architecture, fashion, morphed furniture, mutated insects, 3-D typography and more.O.K. Periodicals an independent magazine published twice a year by O.K. Parking and has a different theme for each edition. O.K. Periodicals is a stage for established and upcoming creative talent. It’s timeless and consists of 112 pages full of inspiration.
www.ok-parking.nl
www.ok-periodicals.com
www.roodkapje.org
ROODKAPJE
30 OCTOBER
19:00 HRS
CLIPS AND MOVIES AT THE UNIE
Saturday 30 October there will be two spectacular screenings at the Unie hosted by Onedotzero and Motionographer.
ONEDOTZERO PRESENTS WAVELENGHT 10
onedotzero is an international moving image and digital arts organisation which commissions, showcases and promotes innovation across all aspects of moving image, digital and interactive arts. The organisation, founded in 1996, is known for representing a diverse array of artistic endeavour via the annual onedotzero_adventures in motion festival and associated touring, currently taking place globally throughout 2010. It has a cross media and collaborative approach attuned to technological advances and fast paced change within digital arts and the contemporary culture landscape.
Wavelenght 10
Serving up radical new takes in music video – a genre that continues to act as a playground for breaking new directors and musicians to make their mark. Showcasing recent classics by critically acclaimed directors alongside witty lo-fi promos from up-and-coming talent. Featuring Edouard Salier’s latest spectacular for Massive Attack, plus Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin’s unique crowd-sourced music video project honoring the legacy of Johnny Cash.
MOTIONOGRAPHER PRESENTS EYECANDY MAYHEM
Motionographer (pronounced like ‘oceanographer’) is a blog community built to showcase and discuss inspiring motion design, motion graphics, animation, visual effects, graphic design and digital filmmaking. Motiongrapher seeks to be a source of inspiration for filmmakers, animators and designers. It does so by sharing work from studios, freelancers and students. Motionographer isn’t just about motion graphics. Inspiration can come from anywhere, and the Motionographer contributors hope to provide interesting material regardless of the medium in which it was created.
Matt Lambert, managing editor of Motionographer, curates this screening.
Made possible by Playgrounds Digital Arts Festival.
DE UNIE
30 OCTOBER
20:30 _ 22:00 HRS
ENTRANCE: 5,00
JAN VOLLAARD KEYNOTE
ART & RECORDSLEEVES
Jan Vollaard writes on pop music for NRC Handelsblad, nrc.next and various other publications. A recurring theme in his 25 years as a critic and interviewer is the relationship between sound and image as seen on record sleeves, in music videos and in live performances. In 2009, in cooperation with De Lakenhal in Leiden, he produced an article and lecture titled “Bubbles and High Art: Relating Barney Bubbles to Theo van Doesburg and contemporaries” in which he discussed the influence of the artists Theo van Doesburg, El Lissitsky and their contemporaries on album design. Vollaard is an avowed lover of art and architecture.One of his hobbies is playing the theremin, an electronic instrument which is played without touch.
In his keynote Vollaard will consider the relationship between art and album design, from Sgt. Pepper to the Sex Pistols and from hippie music to the hi-tech record sleeves of New Order and Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark. Record sleeve designers such as Barney Bubles and Peter Saville were directly inspired by examples from art and architectural history. Artists such as Peter Blake, Andy Warhol, Anton Corbijn and Banksy designed ground-breaking record sleeves and even Salvador Dali dabbled in rock & roll. The record sleeve is the ultimate in pop art, contemporary art accessible to all. Vollaard will illustrate this with visuals and, where necessary, audio under the motto “Sex and Art and Rock & Roll”.
CINERAMA
WESTBLAAK 18
THURSDAY 28 OCTOBER
13:00 > 13:20 HRS
STUDIO FRONTAAL KEYNOTE
Vera is a club with a rich history that has been around since 1974, featuring concerts, movies and dance nights. Before that it was a sorority, but as the years passed the members became more and more politically active and organized lectures, poetry nights and jazz-concerts. After a few years the members voted for a direction towards live-music. Peter Weening initiated this change and nowadays still works as our mainstage promoter.
The concert posters of the Vera Club exist since the 80ties due to a group of always changing, enthusiastic young designers. The posters are screen printed in the attic of the club that locates a small graphic studio. Besides screen printing the studio also locates facilities where the famous Vera Krant is produced. This little club magazine is made with the help of a small semi-automatic offset machine and always full of colourful illustrations.
The Vera posters are unique pieces of art, printed in a run of maximum 70 pieces, which makes them true collector’s items. The prints are often peeled from the walls even before the concerts even started. At the moment the Vera Club has 11 poster designers that print a little over one poster a month.
Kunny van der Ploeg and Mirjam Dijkema of Groningen based collective Studio Frontaal, have both been working for the Vera Club for several years as poster designers. Their shared passion for authentic design methods -such as collage, drawing, letterpress and screen printing- brought them together collaborating on several projects. ‘The work we make for Vera, is feeding our more regular design work. We have so much freedom in creating the posters; legibility is the only requirement. Therefor the Vera club is a dream client; we explore, associate freely on themes and songs and band names and experiment with several illustrative methods. That’s how we stay fresh and inspired. It’s wonderful making your hands dirty with ink, not staring at a screen the whole day. The hand made aspect makes it very personal and gives it an immediate originality. We strive to continue this in all the work we produce; it should be authentic, surprising and personal.
Kunny van der Ploeg (1980) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Academie Minerva in Groningen and got a scholarship to study at Edinburgh College of Art to get her Masters Degree in Graphic Design. Ever since 2004 she works as an independent graphic designer for a broad variety of clients.
Mirjam Dijkema (1984) gor her BA at Academie Minerva in Groningen where she studied Graphic Design, Illustration and Animation. After that she studied History of Modern Art at the University of Groningen.
They formed the collectieve Studio Frontaal in the spring of 2009, together with Josje Kobes.