This exhibit showcases the art of Steambot Studios, featuring the work created for their forthcoming book EXODYSSEY.

Opening party is May 9 at 7 p.m.

"This book is more than just concept art to us. It reflects our achievements in terms of teamwork, quest of identity, and artistic growth. It has been part of our lives for the past three years, along with our daytime jobs, our trips, our girlfriends, family, and friends."

"We bring you a unique and vibrant vision of a world that we hope will appeal to your imagination. We also hope you will enjoy discovering it as much as we have enjoyed creating it."

http://www.steambotstudios.com/

Artists:

Joel dos Reis Viegas
Sebastien Larroude
Barontieri
David Levy
David Giraud
Patrick Desgreniers
Nicolas Ferrand

The Gnomon Gallery
1015 N Cahuenga Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
323-466-6663

See the impressive performance advantages of real-time 3D workflow and rendering at two sneak peek events in Montreal and Los Angeles this month, both spotlighting MachStudio Pro, StudioGPU's revolutionary new non-linear real-time workspace for 3D professionals. Powered by AMD ATI FireGL V8650 3D graphics workstation accelerator cards, MachStudio Pro keeps creativity moving at the speed of thought. MONTREAL Thursday May 7, 2009 Place: Opus Hotel 10 Sherbrooke Quest Montreal, Quebec H2X 4C9 Who Should Attend: 3D artists, animators, game developers, designers, technical directors Partner: 3Vis -- www.3vis.com Registration: 6:30 p.m. Event: 7:00 p.m. RSVP: http://www.3vis.com/enCA/evenements LOS ANGELES Wednesday May 13, 2009 Place: RFX 748 Seward St. Hollywood, CA 90038 323-962-7400 Who Should Attend: 3D artists, animators, game developers, designers, technical directors Partner: RFX -- www.rfx.com Registration: 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Meet and greet with food and drinks, 7:00pm - 9:00pm: Demo and Q&A with developers of MachStudio Pro RSVP: rsvp@rfx.com For more details about StudioGPU or MachStudio Pro, visit www.studiogpu.com.

A handful of top-class artists who have been greatly influenced by the animated film genre will be present at the Galerienhaus during the upcoming 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (May 5-10, 2009). In addition to specially chosen multimedia artists from the region, the Japanese designer Keiichi Tanaami and the internationally popular German-Japanese Kota Ezawa will be presenting their works. German-Japanese Kota Ezawa (born 1969) is considered a shooting star in the contemporary multimedia art scene. In 2006/2007 his works were shown in the exhibition "Out of Time: Contemporary Art from the Collection" at the MoMA -- The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Further recent highlights were the exhibition "Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960" in 2008 in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the same year "The Geopolitics of Animations" at the MARCO -- Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo in Spain. Ezawa draws on well-known elements and source material from art, culture, science and media which he reworks and stylizes on a computer. According to the 14-1 Galerie in Stuttgart "The result is reminiscent of old-fashioned comics shown as digital projections, film, slide shows or etchings". The gallery will be showing his animated 16 mm short film BRAWL from May 3 onwards, throughout the Festival of Animated Film. The film is an original interpretation of a brawl involving fans and players during a basketball game between the US teams Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers in November 2004. At the same time the 14-1 Galerie will be presenting the newest animated music film by Rock & Bluse under the title "wenn der rock brennt" ("When Rock Burns"). Well-known throughout the region, Rock & Bluse is a group of experimental artists, (Anke Bauer, Julia Finkbeiner, Pia Maria Martin and Monika Nuber) who animate felt-tip drawings with abstract and figured elements and combine images and sound to create a new musical entity. A further highlight in the artistic supporting program at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film '09 is the Japanese design doyen Keiichi Tanaami (born 1936), who in expert circles is looked upon as a creator of the experimental animated film. During 40 years of creativity, Tanaami, who amongst other things was employed as the first Art Director at the Japanese branch of the PLAYBOY, has created almost 60 films and continues to regularly produce films and pictures. An important characteristic of this visual artist's work -- who also produces sculptures and performance events -- is the speed with which he visualizes his ideas and thoughts on paper. The Galerie Merkle also located in the Galerienhaus will not only be showing Taanami's psychedelic-touched animated drawings but also his silk screen prints and sketches. At the same time as the works by Ezawa, Rock & Bluse and Tanaami are on show, the Galerie Naumann, the third gallery located in the Galerienhaus, will be showing creations from five contemporary international animation artists under the title PARTITUREN FUR ZEICHERINNEN UND ZEICHNER (Scores for Artists). Works by Sarah Jane Lapp (USA, born 1972) and Eva Koberstein (Munich, born 1969) will be shown as well as works by Jorg Mandernach (born 1963), Kirsten Lampert (born 1959), and Andreas Opiolka (born 1962), all three of whom are from Stuttgart. All of the exhibitions will open May 3, at 11 o'clock in the Galerienhaus Stuttgart (www.galerienhaus-stuttgart.de) as part of the supporting program of the 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film '09.

The NAB Show is the world's largest professional digital media industry convention. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has been hosting this event for over 80 years for all traditional broadcast, entertainment and emerging platform industries, including TV, Radio, Film, Internet and many others. Organizers of the NAB Show have announced the featured speakers and highlights of the 2009 Content Theater. Featuring content and insights from blockbuster animated features, harrowing documentaries, and legendary industry executives, the 2009 NAB Show's Content Theater will be one of the highlight venues during the NAB Show. Unveiled in 2008, the NAB Show Content Theater showcases the most innovative cinema, television, online and mobile filmed entertainment, and examines how it was created using new tools and technologies found on the Show floor. The 2009 Content Theater is part of the NAB Show's overall Content Central exhibit area, located in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Highlights will include: -- Pixar Animation Studios -- Case Study: Pixar Stereoscopic With two Disney Pixar films releasing in Disney Digital 3D in 2009, Pixar is moving to the forefront of 3D cinema. This case study will examine the use of 3D in Pixar's storytelling, the process developed for resurrecting and converting 14-year-old images to release TOY STORY in 3D on October 2, and the production pipeline designed for Disney Pixar's first feature film in 3D, UP, opening nationwide on May 29. The speakers will be Josh Hollander, Director of Stereoscopic Production, and Bob Whitehill, Stereoscopic Supervisor. The presentation will include special content, not to be missed. -- The Jim Henson Company -- Case Study: Jim Henson's Creature Shop -- Performing animated characters in real time. Kerry Shea, Head of Digital Production demonstrates the cutting edge technology from Jim Henson's Creature Shop that allows Henson puppeteers to perform animated characters in real time by combining mechanical input technology, motion capture and a proprietary real time viewer. The session will feature special guest, Sid, star of the PBS KIDS animated preschool series SID THE SCIENCE KID. -- Animal Planet --- Case Study: "Walk the Lion" In Animal Planet's upcoming series WALK THE LION, large predator expert Dave Salmoni embarked on the journey of a lifetime. For six months, Salmoni lived among a pride of lions, alone, in the African wilderness where his experience and knowledge as a zoologist and large cat expert was put to the test. In this case study, Salmoni will talk about the technology and production techniques that were used to create this groundbreaking and challenging documentary. Television personality and entertainment business executive Robin Leach will serve as the host for the Content Theater sessions on Tuesday, April 21. The NAB Show will take place April 18-23, 2009 in Las Vegas (exhibits open April 20).

Sin City now has its own convention dedicated to the worlds of science fiction, fantasy, imaginative art in all its guises and influence on technology. From rockets-to-the-moon to your garage band podcast, traditional art to CGI and digital graphics, movie magic, independent film to imaginative literature old and new. Robert J. Sawyer is the author guest of honor and internationally known master of gothic art Brom is the artist guest of honor. Oscar-winning vfx technician Joe Viskocil will be the media guest of honor.

Check out demonstrations of the leading software and pick up pointers from the pros. There will be movies, panels and demonstrations, things to buy and things to try and parties.

Get everything for a $50 membership through www.xanadulasvegas.com.

F5 is a new two-day creativity festival coming to New York City April 16 and 17. F5's eclectic lineup is built around "creative collisions" -- moments of lasting insight and inspiration that come from venturing outside your comfort zone and smashing into other ?elds. That's why F5's speakers include people like MSNBC's Rachel Maddow; photographer/?lmmaker Charlie White; game developers Media Molecule; science journalist Jonah Lehrer and alternate reality gaming guru Elan Lee. Of course, F5 will also host Stash favorites like Psyop, Shilo, Prologue, Digital Domain, Tronic, Digital Kitchen, 1st Ave Machine, Simon Robson, Dvein and others. In addition to a slew of inspirational speakers, F5 is also presenting the RE:PLAY ?lm festival -- a slate of original short-short ?lms created by some of the world's best talent. The RE:LAX bar at Roseland Ballroom will be in full effect, helping you lubricate yourself into the weekend. And Media Temple will cap everything off Friday evening with an epic after party. For more details and to buy tickets for F5, visit the F5 website: http://f5fest.com/.

This special media event puts the spotlight on the soundtrack. First held in 1998, it has featured creatives working at the highest levels of media and the arts including Walter Murch, Ren Klyce, Lynne Ramsay, Graham Hartstone, Christina Kubisch, Ken Loach, Carter Burwell, Tom Holman, Lucrecia Martel, Gabriel Yared, Richard Leacock, the Brothers Quay, Manfred Eicher and many others. This year's program features director Mike Figgis, multi-talented composer and dj Nitin Sawhney, documentary directors Kim Longinotto, Gideon Koppel and Michael Grigsby, and US avant garde filmmaker Phil Solomon. Three gifted sound designers -- Pat Jackson, Steve Munro and Daniel Deshays -- will explore film sound design in detail. They will be joined by sound artists Akio Suzuki - speaking with composer and writer David Toop - and Hildegard Westerkamp; neurologists Tim Griffiths and Lauren Stewart in discussion with Peter Howell (member of the former BBC Radiophonic Workshop), radio producer Piers Plowright and film educators Roger Crittenden and Stephen Deutsch. Peter Strickland will reflect on the production of the soundtrack for his first feature, KATALIN VARGA, whose sound team won "Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Sound Design" at the Berlin Film Festival. And Chris Petit, director of RADIO ON and a speaker at the 2005 SOS, will close out the event with a personal perspective on the use of song and music with image. This is a special opportunity to tune yourself in to how soundtracks are created and, more importantly, how they affect your audience. The SOS has gained a worldwide reputation by raising the profile of creative screen sound production. It now attracts an international audience of leading sound and music practitioners from over twenty-five countries who are drawn to its distinctive program revealing the soundtrack from unexpected perspectives. It is a truly international meeting - the only event of its kind in the world. Biographies of all the speakers can be found on the website, http://www.schoolofsound.co.uk/. Registrations are still being accepted. Contact them to assure your place before sending payment. For information about the program, fees and registering: www.schoolofsound.co.uk, sos@schoolofsound.co.uk, +44 (0)20 7724 6616.

The Los Angeles Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH presents the one night only event: "When Real is Not Enough". This presentation is the third in an ongoing series of panel discussions that examine where the race to photorealistic, realtime graphics and immersive experience is headed in our lifetime and beyond. This incarnation will focus on the creation of virtual humans.

DAY/DATE/TIME:
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
6:30 - 7:30 Social Hour
7:30 - 9:30 Program

LOCATION:
UCLA Design | Media Arts EDA Space
The Broad Art Center
UCLA Main Campus
Los Angeles, 90095-1456

PRESENTERS (subject to change):

Patrick Kenny - Virtual Human Research Scientist
USC Institute for Creative Technologies (Bio: http://la.siggraph.org/biography/kenny-patrick)

Diane Piepol (and WRINE producer) - Project Director, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Chair (Bio: http://la.siggraph.org/biography/piepol-diane)

Oleg Alexander - Lead Technical Artist, Image Metrics (Bio: http://la.siggraph.org/biography/alexander-oleg)

The MFA Computer Art Department at School of Visual Arts, the New York Digital Salon and the Department of Music and Multimedia Studies at Northeastern University present the New York premiere of the Visual Music Marathon, a 12-hour festival showcasing 120 works by contemporary digital artists and composers from around the world. The event offers an encyclopedic look into the burgeoning practice of visual music, which combines animation and musical composition. The roots of the genre date back more than two hundred years to the ocular harpsichords and color-music scales of the 18th century; the current art form came to fruition following the emergence of film and video in the 20th century.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Visual Music Marathon presents a remarkable array of artistic strategies and sensibilities. Some of the selected works consist of abstract visual interpretations of pieces of music, while others apply structural concepts of music to create moving images, or explore the overlap between visual and musical languages. The artists make use of a range of media and technologies, including found footage, hand-drawn animation, stop-motion photography, digitally processed video, computer-generated imagery, and paintings made directly on film. Works include audio tracks ranging from computer-generated scores, to sampled sounds from nature, to both classical and contemporary musical compositions.

Northeastern University faculty member Dennis Miller , artistic director and curator for the festival, explains, "With the Visual Music Marathon, we have put together the largest and most historically representative selection of work in this field. It is a unique opportunity to see the best of cutting-edge digital art from around the world as well as rarely screened historical gems in the field of visual music." Bruce Wands , chair of the MFA Computer Art Department at SVA and curator of the New York Digital Salon hour of the Marathon, remarked, "We are excited to share all of these works with the city of New York -- the majority of which have never been seen here before. It is a wonderfully diverse group of films, which gives a sense of the creativity and momentum in this field right now."

The program includes works by established figures in the field, such as Canadian/Belgian artist Jean Detheux (DAYDREAM MECHANICS V SKETCH 3, RUPTURE AND LIAISONS), Icelandic artist Steina Vasulka (TREVOR), Austrian artist Tina Frank (CHRONOMOPS, PITBUDP) and American artists Stephanie Maxwell (TIME STREAMS, ALL THAT REMAINS) and Karen Aqua (KAKANIA, SENSORIUM). The festival also presents the work of emerging digital artists including SVA alumnus Joe Tekippe (2006 MFA Computer Art; MODAL DRAWING TOY), German artist Robert Siedel (_GRAU) and U.K.-based artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt of Semiconductor (200 NANOWEBBERS), among others.

In addition to the contemporary works, the program will include examples of rare, historic works from early practitioners of the art form, such as Hans Richter and Oskar Fischinger, which will be screened on 16mm film. The Visual Music Marathon will also feature live audio-visual acts: 1/X , performed by artist and SVA alumnus Chiaki Watanabe (1996 BFA Computer Art) and musician David Galbraith; and S 2: SIMSTIM SQUARED, performed by artist Marjan Moghaddam and composer Adam Caine.

For further details about the festival or to view the April 11 program schedule, visit www.2009vmm.neu.edu and www.nydigitalsalon.org.

The KLDW Festival is the first mega Creative Event of its kind to be organized in Kuala Lumpur. To be making its inaugural mark in KL soon, KLDW 2009 promises a wide mix of creative thoughts and eclectic ideas, of imaginative programs and inspiring showcases, plus loads more under one grand event of "Show + Shine", to showcase what we don't have, and to enhance what we do have.