SPRING 2007

BYDESIGN

MARCH 8-11

Co-presented by Northwest Film Forum,AIGA-Seattle and Henry Art Gallery
Sponsored by Digital Kitchen,Plexi Film and Modern Digital
Made possible by support from National Endowment For The Arts
Curator: Peter Lucas

This special series explores the intersection of graphic design and moving image, and celebrates multidisciplinary artists who push at the boundaries to create new techniques, styles and forms. The 7th annual BYDESIGN program showcases a wide range of artists and approaches with special screenings, presentations and live audio-visual performances. The series includes a program on legendary designer/filmmaker Robert Brownjohn, special guests including composer and software designer Randy Jones and motion graphics designers Matt Mulder (Digital Kitchen) and Will Hyde (Fad), the Seattle premieres of over a dozen new short films and music videos from around the globe, and the Northwest premiere the new documentary, 8 BIT. Join us in celebrating the convergence of design and cinema.

March 8 Thurs at 7pm

ROBERT BROWNJOHN - An Introduction

A protege of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, late designer Robert Brownjohn combined audacious imagery with ingenious typography, illustration and found objects. His book jackets, album covers, posters, exhibitions, and film title sequences brought modernist design concepts to popular culture in the 1950s and 60s. Curator Peter Lucas presents this introduction to Brownjohn's life and work, including images of his print, package and exhibition design and screening of his film title sequences for James Bond films FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) and GOLDFINGER (1964) and rarely seen ad films MONEY TALKS (1965) and THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE (1966).

Special thanks to Eliza Brownjohn, Emily King, and The Design Museum, London for helping to make this program possible.

For more information, visit the Design Museum website

March 8 Thurs at 9pm

Randy Jones: SIX AXIOMS

OPENING NIGHT EVENT Featuring Randy Jones, Scott K. James and and ndCv

Join us for the BYDESIGN 07 opening night party featuring live audio-visual performances. Randy Jones was co-creator of the graphics and matrix-processing program Jitter, has performed at festivals around the world and created tour visuals for Radiohead. He will create a unique synaesthetic experience with a performance of his visual music work, SIX AXIOMS. This will be preceded by a set from visualist Scott K. James (The Now Device) and electronic musician ndCv (Basskamp) Refreshments available.

ENTROPY - Shorts and Music Videos

Each year, we showcase a wide variety of new works by innovative designers, directors and VJs from around the globe in our ENTROPY program. This year's survey features the Seattle premieres of short films and music videos by Ben Stokes, Max Hattler, Nando Costa, Impactist, Pes, Semiconductor, Leftchannel, Post Panic, JJ Walker and others. Photography, found footage, animation, motion graphics and music collide and converge in this selection of the year's best short works.

March 9-11 Fri-Sun at 9pm

Northwest premiere!

8 BIT: A Documentary About Art And Videogames

(Director: Marcin Ramocki, Co-Director Justin Strawhand, 2006, USA, 77 min.)

Named in ArtForum as one of the top ten films of the year by MoMA curator Barbara London, this new documentary examines the influence of video games on contemporary culture, and explores the growing subculture obsessed with repurposing old games and computers as new artistic tools. With both nostalgia and irreverence, artists are transforming old devices into video synthesizers and musical instruments and obsessing over Pac Man and Super Mario Brothers the way Warhol mused over Campbell's Soup and Marilyn Monroe. Shot in NYC, LA, Paris and Tokyo, 8 BIT weaves together arcane histories of digital subterfuge, audio-visual concerts, the best digital artwork, and interviews with cutting-edge artists including Cory Arcangel, Bit Shifter, Bodenstandig 2000, Bubblyfish and many others. Do not miss these special screenings!

Filmmakers scheduled to attend Friday and Saturday screenings.

www.8bitmovie.com

Cast:

Cory Arcangel - http://www.beigerecords.com/cory
Isabelle Arvers - http://www.isabelle-arvers.com
Bit Shifter - http://www.8bitmovie.com/cast/bit.shifter.net
Bodenstandig �2000 - http://www.bodenstandig.de
Bubblyfish - http://www.bubblyfish.com
Mary Flanagan - http://maryflanagan.com/default.htm
Alex�Galloway - http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway
Gameboyzz Orchestra - http://mikroorchestra.com
Glomag - http://www.glomag.com
Rachel Greene - http://www.glomag.com
Ed Halter - http://www.edhalter.com
Paul Johnson - http://www.pauljohnson.com
John Klima - http://www.cityarts.com/lmno
Johan Kotlinski - http://blog.johankotlinski.com
Nullsleep - http://www.nullsleep.com
Joe McKay - http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/index.html
Tom Moody - http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody, http://www.8bitmovie.com/cast/digitalmediatree.com/tommoody
Christiane �Paul - http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/post/conference-2005/participants/christiane-paul
Akiko Sakaizumi - http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/davis1-24-06_detail.asp?picnum=11
Eddo Stern - http://www.eddostern.com
teamtendo - http://teamtendo.com
Treewave - http://www.8bitmovie.com/cast/treewave.com

Original Music and Performances by:

Bit Shifter
Bodenstandig 2000
Bubblyfish
Covox - http://www.covox.net
Gameboyzz Orchestra
Glomag
HUORATRON - http://www.huoratron.com
Nullsleep
Role Model
teamtendo
Treewave
Chiaki Watanabe - http://www.nicknack.org

And the work of:

Eboy - http://eboy.com
jodi - http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org
Velvet Strike - http://www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike
John Simon

March 10 Sat at 4pm

SEATTLE MOVES: Screening and Panel Discussion

Join us for this special forum in which Seattle motion graphics designers Will Hyde (Fad), Matt Mulder (Digital Kitchen) and others will screen recent projects, discuss creative and technical process, and answer questions. The program includes a look at the making of trailers for the Sundance Film Festival and Seattle International Film Festival.
This event is free for NWFF and AIGA members.