http://minivegas.co.uk/blog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:58:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Who: Minivegas Founders: Luc Schurgers and Dan Lewis Innovation in: Directing Why you need to know about them: The modern director is tech savvy, DIY and media agnostic, as au fait with programming, apps, animation and post-production as live action, and the creative possibilities that come with that are boundless. “Whether you’re directing a ... http://minivegas.co.uk/blog/2010/03/11/boards-magazine-12-innovators-you-need-to-know/ On 5th and 6th of March, an outstanding electronic music event took place at the Roundhouse in London, UK. Artists from all around the world were invited and Minivegas and Quayola were asked to do visuals. Sonar somehow managed to convince the enigmatic North American MC DOOM to headline the ... http://minivegas.co.uk/blog/2010/03/11/a-taste-of-sonar/ We love the paintings by Philip Jones. The artist showed recently at VEGAS Gallery at a group exhibition curated by Anny Baranova. 'It has become hard not to notice how worlds of Art and Fashion are so intertwined. Nietzsche wisely noticed that all life came down to arguments about taste. Susan ... http://minivegas.co.uk/blog/2010/03/11/philip-jones-2/ In April, VEGAS gallery will show brand new sculptures by the fabulous Dutch artist-duo Heringa/Van Kalsbeek http://minivegas.co.uk/blog/2010/03/11/new-works-by-heringavan-kalsbeek/ Baked Beans, Circus Family and Minivegas: a new exhibition in London features three innovative Dutch design studios working across digital design, animation and multimedia. By Editor Design.nl / 21-01-2010 Chips with Everything The exhibition is curated by Ken Pratt, the independent curator of London's new Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space - ... http://minivegas.co.uk/blog/2010/03/11/minivegas-the-dutch-cultural-pop-up-space/ On Friday the 29th of January we did a presentation at the National Center for Computer Animation. We talked about a few recent projects, showed some CG robots and demonstrated our real-time graphics projects. It was nice to be back in Bournemouth, but I couldn't believe that it was almost ... http://minivegas.co.uk/blog/2010/03/11/ncca-presentation/ Vegas Gallery is proud to present the second exhibition in our brand new space on Vyner Street, London: Peeping Tom, a group exhibition curated by Keith Coventry with works by 76 artists including Tracey Emin, Claire de Jong, Mat Collishaw, Michael Landy, Tim Noble & Sue Webster and Keith Tyson. http://minivegas.co.uk/blog/2010/03/11/peeping-tom/ Lisa Yuskavage’s exquisite, romantic in an erotic way; fragile paintings echo Renaissance due to the effort she gives to the craftsmanship. Her compositions are vastly considered and thought through; there is no space for spontaneity and accidents in the final result of each piece. Yuskavage’s creative process is deeply influenced ... http://minivegas.co.uk/blog/2010/03/09/lisa-yuskavage/ Boo Ritson has an peculiar way of making her works where she involves models into the creation process of her paintings and applies materials right on their skin and clothes and take photographs of the end result. Such interactive process generates more life and character into her art works. Each ... http://minivegas.co.uk/blog/2010/03/09/boo-ritson/ When I think about my favorite artistic duo Pierre et Gilles my mind gets overwhelmed with excessiveness, glamour, eccentricity and queerness. Themes of sex, homoeroticism and male nudity are intertwined with Greek mythology, theater, iconography, Hollywood and Bollywood. There are French sailors, Russian soldiers, Roman saints and many more ... http://minivegas.co.uk/blog/2010/03/01/pierre-et-gilles/