(Photo by: Dara Scully, EK Flickr Pool Submission) Welcome, ladies n’ gentlemen, lads n’ lasses… gems n’ germs. The EMPTY KINGDOM Top 100 Artist of 2011 is here!
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EMPTY KINGDOM TOP 100 Artists of 2011
Sonar
Simple dots and circles evoke the complex visual music in Sonar. A 2009 piece by Renaud Hallée of Possible Metrics.
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EMPTY KINGDOM TUMBLR
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Black Ocean / Ecosystem & Incubation
Zelig Sounds is a Sound Studio located out of London, UK. They we’re contacted to do sound work and fill out a moving conceptual piece. When finished, the video rendered out engaging concepts with such organic sound designs and score. Zelig and the whole production team ended up creating beauty in poetry through sound...
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Surface Detail
Tom Beddard’s (subBlue) Surface Detail hypnotizes us with a sphere-like domain of constantly evolving fractals…
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The 2011 Top 100 are coming!!!
(photo credit: Marc West) Hello beautiful people! Last year our impromptu Top 100 mega-post spread like wildfire on the internet, causing both acclamation and controversy (although none of the artists we selected seemed to argue with us) …so you better believe we’re gearing up for another mega-post featuring our top one hundred favorite artists...
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New Look – Nap On The Bow
Brand new music video for ‘Nap on the Bow’ by New Look. I must say there isn’t much music videos like this one. 3D pixelated environments, while the duo’s depiction is rendered by visual sound waves. Nowness premiered the official video earlier today. Imagine the experience of watching the video on ‘guess‘?
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Steve.
“Find what you love.” -Steve Jobs
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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery is a pixelated audio-visual journey into experimental interactivity. Created by the Superbrothers team. Soundtrack and sound design by Jim Guthrie.
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Takuya Hosogane
Takuya Hosogane‘s 2011 show reel. Simple.
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Hitch
“Its the right combination of various techniques.” “Hitch” was a graduation project at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover.
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Sehsucht: Close and Caring
Furry monsters cuddling, welcoming the viewer to a brand new series of MTV idents from 1 July 2011 – motion design studio Sehsucht of Berlin/Germany has created and animated “Close & Caring“, one of six new MTV idents (duration: 20 sec.).
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INTERACTIVE: WILDERNESS DOWNTOWN
Check out Arcade Fire’s new interactive video, directed by Chris Milk. It won some sort of cyber Grand Prix or something at Cannes. Check it out: thewildernessdowntown.com
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Digital Kitchen: This Is DK
It has been an great year for the talented people at Digital Kitchen and this is their 2011 show reel.
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Resonance
Resonance showcases 12-20 second pieces of visual and aural stimuli, enjoy.
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Empty Kingdom Hiring Worldwide!!!
Hello beautiful people around the world, get your resumes and portfolios ready, because Empty Kingdom wants you.
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THINGS FALL APART
Killer. Mr. Mclellan has the right idea. www.toddmclellan.com
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Amnesty International “Shine a Light”
Another video commemorating Amnesty Internationals 50th Anniversary. Created pro-bono by the Betterment Bureau, a department of Loyalkaspar inc.
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Amnesty Turns 50!
Happy late birthday Amnesty International! From everybody here at EK!
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