PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 Exhibition @ PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv

PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 Exhibition

PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv

Opening February 28, 2025

On February 28, the PinchukArtCentre will present the 8th exhibition of 20 shortlisted artists for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025, a nationwide prize in contemporary art for young Ukrainian artists aged 35 or younger. The participants will create new works or showcase their recent projects, weaving together personal stories, reflections on collective memory and identity. The exhibition captures the clash of contrasts in Ukrainian society's experience, where tragedy and loss intertwine with resilience and hope for the future.

The shortlist of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 includes: Mykhailo Alekseenko (34, Kyiv), Kateryna Aliinyk (25, Kyiv/Luhansk), Yuriy Bolsa (27, Chervonohrad), Vasyl Dmytryk (32, Ivano-Frankivsk/Odesa), Maksym Khodak (23, Vienna/Kyiv/Bila Tserkva), Yevhen Korshunov (35, Brovary/Kyiv), Kateryna Lysovenko (34, Kyiv/Vienna), Krystyna Melnyk (30, Kyiv/Melitopol), Daria Molokoiedova (22, Kramatorsk/Kyiv), Vladislav Plisetskiy (25, Kyiv), Andrii Rachynskyi (34, Kharkiv), Anton Saenko (34, Sumy/Kyiv), Anton Shebetko (34, Kyiv/Amsterdam), Zhenia Stepanenko (28, Kyiv/Berlin), Vasyl Tkachenko (Lyakh) (29, Mariupol), Illia Todurkin (23, Mariupol/Kyiv), Tamara Turliun (29, Dnipro/Kyiv), Lesia Vasylchenko (34, Kyiv/Oslo), Yuri Yefanov (34, Gurzuf) and collective Variable Name / Назва змінна (Valerie Karpan (Kyiv) and Maryna Marynychenko (Kyiv/Zaporizhzhia)).

This year, a special recognition outside the competition will honour the memory of Veronika Kozhushko — an artist from Kharkiv who applied for the PinchukArtCentre Prize but tragically died on August 30 as a result of a Russian missile strike on the city's civilian infrastructure.

The show of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025 curated by Oleksandra Pogrebnyak, curator of the PinchukArtCentre. Assistant curators: Oksana Chornobrova, Kateryna Kostenko.

The shortlisted artists will be invited to create works for the exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre in 2025. The winners of the Prize will be announced at the award ceremony in the second quarter of 2025. The Main Prize of UAH 400 000 and two Special Prizes equal to UAH 100 000 each will be awarded by the international jury. The winners will also receive financial support for internships, further education, residences or new production. A Public Choice winner will be determined by votes of the visitors attending the exhibition of the shortlisted artists and will be awarded UAH 40 000.

The winner of the Main Prize will be automatically included in the shortlist of the Future Generation Art Prize 2026, an international art prize for young artists.

PinchukArtCentre

1/3-2 Velyka Vasylkivska / Baseyna str., Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000

pinchukartcentre.org

Kunstverein Hannover Award Winners Exhibition - Ole Blank, Lena Marie Emrich, Pablo Schlumberger, Tugba Simsek, Catharina Szonn @ Kunstverein Hannover

Kunstverein Hannover Award Exhibition

Ole Blank, Lena Marie Emrich, 

Pablo Schlumberger, Tuğba Şimşek, 

Catharina Szonn

Kunstverein Hannover 

August 24 — October 6, 2024 

Kunstverein Hannover has been running a residency program for young artists for over 40 years. At the end of the program, their newly created works are shown in an exhibition at Kunstverein Hannover - this time not by three artists as usual, but by five.

The one- and two-year scholarships, which have been awarded since 1983, support artistic development both through project funding and by providing living and working space. The Kunstverein Hannover Award, with its regional and national focus, is supported by the Kunstverein Hannover, whose premises are made available to the scholarship holders for a final exhibition.

Information on the artists and the works on display

PABLO SCHLUMBERGER

In his artistic practice, Pablo Schlumberger (born 1990 in Aachen, lives and works in Düsseldorf) draws on various (art) historical epochs as well as high and pop culture. His works in the fields of sculpture, drawing, painting, installation and media art deal with the question of representation and perception in a humorous way. After completing his studies at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 2018 under Andreas Slominski, his works have been shown in Cologne, Münster, Hamburg and Varese (Italy), among others. In 2023 he received the Neustart Plus scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds. In 2020 he was a fellow of the Residence NRW+ program in Münster and received the Kunstverein Hannover Award. 

Pablo Schlumberger 

Die Enthüllung (Messerwerfer), 2024 

Oil and pastel on canvas, 200 × 180 cm, detail

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Pablo Schlumberger 

Die Enthüllung (Messerwerfer), 2024 

Oil and pastel on canvas, 200 × 180 cm, detail

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Pablo Schlumberger 

Die Enthüllung (Messerwerfer), 2024 

Oil and pastel on canvas, 220 × 180 cm, detail

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Pablo Schlumberger 

Sketch, 2024 

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As if he had just escaped from the circus ring, the Messerwerfer (knife-thrower) performs on stages in several exhibition spaces at the Kunstverein. Confrontational and playful at the same time, the figure establishes a connection to the outside world. The stages appear staged and artificial, the double staging in the exhibition space takes on an initially absurd appearance. In a combination of painting and installation, an absurd profession seems to be addressed, that of an entertainer, a showman - humorously displayed here in all its irony.

TUGBA SIMSEK

Tuğba Şimşek (born 1986 in Grünstadt, lives and works in Hanover) draws on lived experiences, feelings, fragments of memory, places and everyday observations in their contradictory nature. She studied at the Braunschweig University of Art, where she graduated in 2019 as a master student of Olav Christopher Jenssen. She also studied at the Freie Kunstakademie Mannheim, the Metropolitan University of Art and Design Cardiff and the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles. Tuğba Şimşek's work has been presented in numerous exhibitions, and in 2022 she received the Kunstverein Hannover Award. She has been awarded various scholarships, including Atelier auf Zeit, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim (2021).

Tuğba Şimşek 

o. T., 2024 

MDF, blackboard paint, chalk, 34 × 26 × 1 cm

Tuğba Şimşek 

Mosaics (from the series Himalaya), 2023–2024 

Wood and small, hand-cut mosaic stones, 33.5 × 26 × 1 cm

Tuğba Şimşek records what she perceives in her surroundings casually, sometimes with her eyes closed, but always intuitively. Drawing has become a habit for her, a diary - a natural sequence of movements. In her new installation at the Kunstverein, the black circles on the walls look like targets - and the powdery colors provided look like an invitation: visitors are invited to participate in a large chalk painting and to see the black targets as deep wells of happiness into which something is thrown. The collective process leads to a joint product that is left to change and chance. Elsewhere, Tetris bricks - based on childhood memories - seem to glide across a huge, jet-black blackboard wall: the paused representation of a video game that stands for the childhood and youth of an entire generation. At the same time, childhood is the stage of life in which lack of intention, whether in play or in boredom, drives one's own creative work. The combination of biographical elements, subconscious images and involuntary action are brought together in Tuğba Şimşek's working method.

CATHARINA SZONN

Catharina Szonn (born 1987, Großenhain) studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, the Iceland Academy of Arts Reykjavik and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In her expansive installations, she poetically questions and updates the relationship between man and machine, progress and transience. Her artistic practice touches on philosophical themes and integrates text and language. Catharina Szonn has taken part in exhibition projects such as the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück (2019) and has shown her work in solo exhibitions in Amberg, Constance and Frankfurt am Main, among others. In 2022 she received the Kunstverein Hannover Award, and in 2023 the research grant for visual arts from the Berlin Senate Administration. 

Catharina Szonn 

Note on the subject of the society of decline (Oliver Nachtwey) 

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Catharina Szonn 

Eternal Exercise, 2024

Film still 

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Catharina Szonn 

Eternal Exercise, 2024

Film still 

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Catharina Szonn 

Eternal Exercise, 2024

Film still 

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Catharina Szonn's work at the Kunstverein, which borrows from elements of skittles, presents a more or less dysfunctional machine: it raises and lowers itself, sometimes with great effort, and seems to train itself with each attempt; the cumbersome movement illustrates wear and tear. The machine acts as a performer, making the redundancy of its actions visible in seemingly endless repetitions. The movements are accompanied on LED displays with poetic comments such as this: "Time is running and with it the distance that spreads between a beginning and an end. Please don't go away. Change your mind and stay. More important than the show is that the future is certain. I want you to love me."

LENA MARIE EMRICH

Lena Marie Emrich (born 1991 in Göttingen, lives and works in Brussels, Göttingen and Berlin) deals with the physical and the linguistic, with spatial and human exchange in her artistic practice, which interweaves performance, documentation and sculpture. Lena Marie Emrich's works and collective projects have been exhibited in Paris, Berlin, Bergen, Leipzig, Düsseldorf and Milan, among others. She has been working as a stage designer at the Schaubühne Berlin since 2022. In 2020 she won the Toy Award of the Berlin Masters Foundation, in 2022 she was awarded the Kunstverein Hannover Award. In 2023 she received the Neustart Plus grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds. Her works are represented in collections such as the Burger Collection, the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the Arndt Collection and the Marval Collection. 

Lena Marie Enrich 

Process documentation photos 

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Lena Marie Enrich 

Process documentation photos 

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Lena Marie Enrich 

Process documentation photos 

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Lena Marie Enrich 

Process documentation photos 

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The curved shape of Lena Marie Emrich's Gossip Chairs, an installative ensemble on Sophienstraße that invites people to take a seat, means that although the people sitting on them are facing in different directions, they are nevertheless facing each other and are aware of each other. The result is a staged or forced closeness that becomes a game between intimacy and conversation on the one hand and confrontation with strangers, observing and being observed on the other. Whether tête-à-tête or ménage-à-trois - each of the sculptures tells a different story and encourages viewers to engage in shared conversations. Moral questions are addressed based on the shape of the serpentine. 16 texts selected by the artist and accessible via a digital archive are available via QR codes.

Lena Marie Emrich's practice is a symbiosis of sculptural and fragmentary poetry. The wall works "I Heard Only Good Things" and "Rumors Do Not Fall From The Heavens" allude to the ambivalence that gossip brings with it. Although it has negative connotations, gossip accompanies us in our everyday lives: at work or on our nightly rambles, on social media and in other media. The cliché that labels gossip as typically female has misogynistic connotations - and at the same time, it was long the only form in which women could express themselves uncensored on critical topics.

OLE BLANK

In his multimedia practice, Ole Blank (born 1990 in Lübeck) uses social, cultural and natural commonplaces as conceptual starting points, which he translates into poetic and allegorical images in space. Since graduating from the Braunschweig University of Art in 2017, his work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in Romania, the Netherlands and Germany. Locally, he has been involved in projects such as the Absent Academy and the Niki Residency Program in Hanover. In 2022 he received the Kunstverein Hannover Award. As a fellow of the residency program Fusion:Air 2024 (Romania) and guest artist at the Hertz-Labor (ZKM Karlsruhe), he deepens his practice in the context of transdisciplinary interferences between art, science and technology.

Ole Blank 

Sketch, 2024

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In a sound archive created especially for the new work at the Kunstverein, the artist collected acoustic recordings of beaches, bays and dunes on the various seas of Europe.

The composition begins with the cries of seagulls in the early morning and ends with a cicada concert in the late evening - with the sound of the sea always present. Voices or other references to possible locations are deliberately omitted. The new sound work Wave Room is an attempt to create a surreal phonogram that compresses the European continent in space and time in such a way that it can be explored or at least imagined in its entirety. The result is a contemplative soundscape that can only be experienced through listening.

Previous award winners

2022  Ole Blank, Tuğba Şimşek, Catharina Szonn

2020  Lena Marie Emrich, Sven-Julien Kanclerski, Pablo Schlumberger

2018  Till Wittwer, Lukas Zerbst, Luise Marchand

2016  Isabel Nuño de Buen, Claudia Piepenbrock, Julian Öffler

2014  Laura Bielau, Susann Dietrich, Christian Retschlag

2012  Arno Auer, Ingo Mittelstaedt, Toulu Hassani

2010  Samuel Henne, Fabian Reimann, Anahita Razmi

2008  Özlem Sulak, Sebastian Neubauer

2006  Claudia Kapp, Jacqueline Doyen

2004  Stefan Jeep, Ho-Yeol Ryu

2002  Thomas Ganzenmüller, Antje Schiffers

1999  Hannes Kater, Bjørn Melhus

1997  Hlynur Hallsson, Petra Kaltenmorgen

1995  Christoph Girardet, Anette Ziss

1993  Bernhard Büttner, Aernout Mik, Michael Stephan

1991  Jörg Lange, Brigitte Raabe, Sabine Wewer

1989  Andrea Ostermeyer, Gabriele Regiert, Brigitte Vickers

1987  Friedhelm Falke, Karl Möllers, Siegfried Pietrusky

1985  Petra Rosenthal, Rolf Sextro, Volker Thies

1983  Rüdiger Barharn, Ralph Kull, Klaus Goulbier

The Kunstverein Hannover Award Call for Entries

The call for entries for the next award is online.

Information on the website of the Kunstverein Hannover:

https://www.kunstverein-hannover.de/en/programme/1418-preis-des-kunstvereinshannover

Applications must be received online by the Kunstverein Hannover by September 22, 2024.

Overview of the three scholarships

Lower Saxony Scholarship (January 2025-December 2026)

The two-year Lower Saxony scholarship is awarded to freelance artists who have completed a university degree and are aged up to 35 (at the time of application) and who live or were born in Lower Saxony or Bremen.

Lower Saxony Scholarship for Young Artists (January-December 2025)

The one-year Lower Saxony Scholarship for Young Artists is awarded to freelance artists up to three years after graduation who live or were born in Lower Saxony or Bremen.

National Scholarship for Young Artists (January-December 2026)

The one-year National Scholarship for Young Artists is awarded to freelance artists up to a maximum of three years after graduation who are resident in Germany.

KUNSTVEREIN HANNOVER

Sophienstrasse 2 — 30159 Hannover

www.kunstverein-hannover.de

Ugo Rondinone awarded the Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation

15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation awarded to Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone

Ugo Rondinone 

Photo: Maru Teppei

New York-based Swiss artist (sculpture, video and installation) UGO RONDINONE (*1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland) received the 15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation. He is one of the most acclaimed international artists of his generation who has already been honored with numerous solo exhibitions, among others in London, Paris, Boston, Zurich, Rotterdam or Frankfurt. After all, his monumental groups of works can repeatedly be found dominating public space, whether in urban contexts such as New York and Paris or in the Nevada desert.

“Rondinone's works have their own poetry and are inspired by his own experiences and events. They boast immense density as they are rich in quotations from art history, literature, and pop culture. With seemingly playful material observations in an aesthetic of archetypes that can be sensually experienced and approached by the viewer, the artist creates a connection between the subjective and universal world images," according to the jury of the 15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation. “His skillful brilliance is characterized by this poignant immediacy combined with a formal language shaped by a high degree of seriality and the use of the most different artistic media. The captivating formal translation of universal fields of tension such as time and transience, day and night, reality and fiction, nature and culture makes him a worthy laureate of the 15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation. Last but not least, the participatory character of his work was convincing.”

The awarding of the prize together with a presentation of the artist's work at one of the museums of the Würth Collection is scheduled for the spring of 2024.

The jury of the 15th Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation

Dr. Christoph Becker, former Director of Kunsthaus Zurich 

Dr. Philipp Demandt, Director of Städel Museum and Liebieghaus, Frankfurt 

Prof. Dr. Michael Eissenhauer, former Director-General of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 

Fabrice Hergott, Director of Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris 

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Maaz, General Director of Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich 

Elmgreen & Dragset, Scandinavian artist duo, Berlin, winners of the 14th Robert Jacobsen Prize 

C. Sylvia Weber, Director of Würth Collection (chair)

Maria Würth, Member of the Board of the Würth Foundation

About the Robert Jacobsen Prize

After the death of sculptor Robert Jacobsen in 1993, the Würth Foundation endowed the Robert Jacobsen Prize in cooperation with Museum Würth. Every other year, it is awarded to contemporary visual artists to commemorate Robert Jacobsen’s oeuvre and influence. After their first accidental encounter in the 1970s, the Danish sculptor and Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold Würth, entrepreneur and art collector, became long-standing friends. In 1991, Jacobsen had completed his largest sculpture installation on the forecourt of the Würth Group's new administration building, which has shaped the appearance of the Group's headquarters ever since. The Robert Jacobsen Prize is endowed with EUR 50,000. 

Previous Robert Jacobsen Prize winners:

1993 Lun Tuchnowski 

1995 Richard Deacon 

1997 Magdalena Jetelovà 

1999 Gereon Lepper 

2001 Stephan Kern 

2003 Rui Chafes 

2005/06 Bernar Venet 

2008 Monika Sosnowska 

2010 Alicja Kwade 

2012 Jeppe Hein 

2014/15 Michael Sailstorfer 

2016/17 Yngve Holen 

2018/19 Eva Rothschild 

2021 Elmgreen & Dragset

About the Würth Foundation

Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Reinhold and Carmen Würth founded the Würth Foundation in 1987. It is a civil law foundation based in Künzelsau, Germany, and promotes charitable and benevolent causes. The Würth Foundation promotes projects in the fields of art and culture, research and science as well as education and training—mainly in the Hohenlohe region, where the Würth Group’s headquarters are located. The foundation also supports social integration projects. The projects of the Würth Foundation are promoted by the German Würth Group companies, in particular Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG.

WURTH FOUNDATION

www.wuerth.com

Ekin Kee Charles - Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2022

Ekin Kee Charles

Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2022

EKIN KEE CHARLES

EKIN KEE CHARLES (Malaysia, 1996) is the winner of the Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2022, in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró, MoCA TAIPEI; ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur, Center d’Art Contemporain, Genève; Art Hub Copenhagen and Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing.

Ekin Kee Charles - “Being born and brought up in the inland area of Sabah has been the biggest blessing in my life. No matter where I am in life I will always be the village girl that I am. Growing up, I have always wanted to leave my village but now I want nothing more than to go back. The personality, the environment, the community has made such an impact on me and I only realised that when I left. The land that has shaped me has so much character and stories and I wish to share the beauty that I see with others. This opportunity given by The Han Nefkens Foundation to showcase the beauty that I see is a big milestone. It means that more people from different dynamics will be able to appreciate the life that is rarely shined upon and I am very thankful and honoured. I want more people to appreciate where they come from, similar to how I appreciate my community and tradition through the works that I make.”

Established in 2018, the Han Nefkens Foundation - LOOP Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2022 in collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró has established itself as a tool for increasing contemporary artistic production in the video art field. The Grant involves the production of a video art work. Ekin Kee Charles will receive $15,000 for the production of a new work to be completed by the end of November 2023 and to be presented at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona in 2024, during LOOP Festival. At a later stage, the new production will also be presented at MoCA TAIPEI; ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur, Center d’Art Contemporain, Genève; Art Hub Copenhagen and Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing. The Han Nefkens Foundation will receive a long-term loan of the produced artwork for presentation at art institutions worldwide with whom the Foundation collaborates with. In order to consolidate the candidates’ career, the Grant appraises emerging promising artists, who are 40 years old or less, of Asian nationality or living in Asia and who have established a solid trajectory, but have not had the opportunity to exhibit extensively. To achieve this, ten internationally recognized art critics and curators (nominated by all the partner institutions) carry out the scouting process. Through this exercise, the curators will expand the selected artist’s network of contacts as well as discover and get closer to lesser-known video art works and thus, promote this discipline.

Han Nefkens - "I was touched by the sensitivity of Ekin's work. It's clear that what she shows us is close to her heart. I am therefore delighted that, together with the six art institutions that participate in this grant, we will work with this young and promising artist from the periphery who is firmly on her way to develop her unique voice."

The Jury for the 2022 edition of the Grant was chaired by Han Nefkens and consisted of Emilio Alvarez, Founder LOOP Barcelona; Marko Daniel, Director Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Carol Yinghua Lu, Director Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; Hua-Tzu Chan - Deputy Supervisor of Research Department, MoCA TAIPEI; Jacob Fabricius, Director, Art Hub Copenhagen; Rahel Joseph, Director, ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur and Andrea Bellini, Director, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève. The judging took place in the presence of: Hilde Teerlinck, General Director of the Han Nefkens Foundation and Alessandra Biscaro, Coordinator of the Han Nefkens Foundation. The Jury stated:

"We were delighted to select Ekin Kee Charles. Her profound video works explore in an unassuming way the societal pressures that women face every day. We all agreed that her work speaks clearly of a specific place and moment, while at the same time transcending - by virtue of its deep connection with the local - any particular culture, region or country. Her works combine this universality with a sensitive and poetic approach, offering a space for critical contemplation. We look forward to following her next steps."

EKIN KEE CHARLES is a young filmmaker from Kota Marudu, Sabah in Malaysia. She graduated from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak with a bachelor in Cinematography in 2019. Upon graduating, she ventured into the filmmaking industry to sharpen her filmmaking skills. Ekin has set the goal to tell stories coming from her community, to share what life is like in her suburban area and the love she feels for her community. Ekin Kee Charles is an alumnus of an exchange program for film students in Japan held by The Japan Foundation Asia Center under the program ....and Action! Asia 4 (2018) where she directed and co-wrote a short film ‘Your Shirt, My Socks’. The short film was a part of the SEAShorts |Next New Wave (Malaysia) under the program Love Letter from Japan. Your Shirt, My Socks also won the Best Short Film award at the 14th Mini Film Festival (Malaysia). In 2019, she took home the Grand Prize Winner Award of the 13th Edition BMW Shorties with her winning short film ‘PACE’, thus making her the youngest Grand Prize winner, at the age of 23 and the first East Malaysian director that has won the title to date. She also won the Best Editing Award and was nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Director. ‘PACE’ was also a part of several film festivals such as Minikino Bali Film Week and was in Cinebah 2021, a program that showcases a new wave of Sabahan filmmakers. Her latest short film credited as director & writer, ‘Rama-Rama’ funded by BMW Shorties has been a part of Clermont Ferrand Short Film Market Pick 2022 (France), 14th Cinema Rehiyon 2022 (Philippines) and Next New Wave | SEAShorts 2022 (Malaysia).

The initial selection of ten artists formally presented to the jury was made by the following scouts: Boliang Shen; Christina Li; Hyo Gyoung Jeon; Yee I-Lann; James Luigi Tana; Sau Bin Yap; Seolhui Lee; Sherith Arasakulasuriya; Shuang Li; Vanini Belarmino; Xue Tan.

The shortlist of seven artists, whose proposals were then shared and discussed by the final jury was:

- Boloho (collective), China

- Bo Wang, 1982, China

- Ekin Kee Charles, 1996, Malaysia

- Rui An Ho, 1990, Singapore

- Tao Hui, 1987, China

- Yoonsuk Jung, 1981, South Korea

- Zuqiang Peng, 1992, China

Fundació Joan Miró

Parc de Montjuic, 08038 Barcelona

www.fmirobcn.org

Quentin Tarantino, Fourth Annual Kodak Film Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award

Fourth Annual Kodak Film Awards to Honor Quentin Tarantino With Lifetime Achievement Award

QUENTIN TARANTINO

Photo by Art Streiber

Tyler, the Creator, Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig, Melina Matsoukas, Dan Mindel, Rodrigo Prieto are also honored.

The fourth annual Kodak Film Awards takes place at the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Clubhouse on Wednesday, January 29, 2020.

Academy Award® winning director/writer/producer Quentin Tarantino receives the Kodak Lifetime Achievement Award for his incomparable contributions to the industry, with all of his films having been shot on film. His ninth and most current film Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood has been heavily lauded throughout this season and is nominated for ten Academy Awards®.

The multi-talented artist/musician/producer/director/designer Tyler, the Creator receives the inaugural Maverick award. Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) and Greta Gerwig (Little Women) each receive Auteur Awards for their directorial work this year, while Melina Matsoukas (Queen & Slim) receives the First Feature Award. Dan Mindel (Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker) and Rodrigo Prieto (The Irishman) receives Lumiere Awards, in recognition of their career work in the field of Cinematography, and HBO’s Succession receives the TV Series of the Year Award.

Kodak has seen a substantial increase in film sales each year for five consecutive years and has invested in film processing labs across the world to meet the excitement and demand surrounding film. 

“It has been a banner year for film,” says Steve Bellamy, President of Motion Picture and Entertainment, Eastman Kodak Co. “This year, movies shot on film represent five of the 10 productions nominated in the Academy’s Best Picture and Cinematography categories, and a total of 37 Oscar® nominations. This is a great testament to the intrinsic value of film to the motion picture arts. We are excited to celebrate these extraordinary filmmakers at the Kodak Film Awards this year.”

The 2020 Kodak Film Awards will also celebrate all of the highly recognized motion pictures shot on film in 2019, including:

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Academy Award, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Critics Choice)

Marriage Story (Academy Award, Indie Spirit, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Critics Choice, Gotham Awards)

The Irishman (Academy Award, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Critics Choice)

Little Women (Academy Award, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Critics Choice)

The Lighthouse (Academy Award, Indie Spirit, BAFTA, Critics Choice, Gotham Awards)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Academy Award, BAFTA)

Ad Astra (Academy Award, Critics Choice)

Bait (BAFTA)

Sorry We Missed You (BAFTA)

Apollo 11 (Indie Spirit, BAFTA, Gotham Awards)

Uncut Gems (Indie Spirit, Critics Choice, Gotham Awards)

Luce (Indie Spirit)

Give Me Liberty (Indie Spirit, Gotham Awards)

Premature (Indie Spirit)

Her Smell (Indie Spirit, Gotham Awards)

The Souvenir (Indie Spirit)

Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé (Emmy) 

Succession (TV) (Golden Globes, Emmy, Critics Choice)

The Painted Bird (Camerimage, Venice)

With his vibrant imagination and dedication to richly layered storytelling Quentin Tarantino is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of his generation. Tarantino made his directorial debut with RESERVOIR DOGS, a film which made an auspicious debut at the Sundance Film Festival and marked Tarantino’s first trip to Cannes (out of competition). Following RESERVOIR DOGS, Tarantino co-wrote, directed and starred in one of his most beloved films, PULP FICTION, which won numerous critics’ awards, a Golden Globe and Academy Award® for Best Screenplay, and the Palme D’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. He then made JACKIE BROWN, KILL BILL VOL. 1 and VOL. 2, and DEATH PROOF. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, Tarantino’s World War II epic released in 2009, garnered numerous nominations including six BAFTA, four Golden Globe and eight Academy Award® nominations. In 2013, Tarantino won his second Oscar® for Best Screenplay for DJANGO UNCHAINED. The film was also nominated for five Golden Globe Awards (with a win for Tarantino for Best Screenplay), five BAFTAS (with another win for Tarantino) and five Academy Awards®. In 2015, Tarantino wrote and directed THE HATEFUL EIGHT, which received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for the film’s screenplay. Tarantino’s most recent film, ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD, was nominated for 5 Golden Globes, (winning Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay for Tarantino), 10 BAFTAS, and 10 Academy Award nominations including: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

Tyler, The Creator is a 28-year-old auteur. A recording artist, songwriter, producer, director, designer and more, he first emerged in 2007 as co-founder of the collective Odd Future before going on to co-create and star in the cult TV show Loiter Squad on Adult Swim with his Odd Future cohorts. This was just the beginning for Tyler — since then he has become a Grammy Award winning artist, releasing five studio albums, launching an internationally acclaimed music festival (Camp Flog Gnaw) that has sold out 8 years running, creating two clothing brands (Golf Wang and Golf Le Fleur) that have collaborated with heritage brands like Converse, Lacoste and more, as well as creating two more TV shows (The Jellies! for Adult Swim and Nuts & Bolts for Viceland). His latest album IGOR debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, saw him crowned GQ’s Man of the Year and Wall Street Journal Magazine’s Innovator of the Year in addition to being named Best Rap Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards just this past weekend.

Noah Baumbach was born in Brooklyn, New York. His films include Kicking and Screaming, The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, Greenberg, Frances Ha, While We’re Young, Mistress America, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), and the documentary, De Palma.

Greta Gerwig is an Academy Award nominated director and writer who has established herself one of Hollywood’s most important voices. Gerwig’s second film LITTLE WOMEN starring Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen has been nominated for six Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards as well as PGA and WGA awards. Her first film LADY BIRD was nominated for five Academy Awards, including a nomination for Gerwig in the Best Director category, and the first to be nominated for a debut film. Gerwig is also a prolific actor, who received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in FRANCES HA, which she also co-wrote with Noah Baumbach. Her additional acting credits include JACKIE, MAGGIE’S PLAN, 20th CENTURY WOMEN, LOLA VERSUS, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and MISTRESS AMERICA. In Spring 2020, Gerwig will also appear on stage in Sam Gold’s Off-Broadway production of Anton Chekhov’s THREE SISTERS at The New York Theatre Workshop.

Melina Matsoukas’s brand of provocation comes from a unique, inherently multicultural point of view that flips existing narratives to normalize the inclusion of women and people of color in spaces where they previously were not represented. Matsoukas made her powerful feature directorial debut with the November 2019 release of QUEEN & SLIM starring Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith, which she also produced. Matsoukas began her television career as an executive producer and frequent director of the critically acclaimed HBO series INSECURE. She went on to direct MASTER OF NONE’s Emmy-winning “Thanksgiving” episode. She has brought her singular vision to music videos for Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Solange, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga and earned her second Grammy Award for Beyoncé’s “Formation”. Melina’s recognizable visual watermark has also landed her in the director’s chair for the global campaigns of major commercial clients such as Stella McCartney and Nike.

Born in South Africa, Dan Mindel, ASC, BSC, SASC, studied in Australia and in Britain and began his career as a camera loader. After working his way up to assistant cameraman, he came to the attention of directors such as Ridley and Tony Scott, who quickly recognized his talent and dedication. In 1997, Ridley Scott asked Mindel to be the second unit Director of Photography on his film G.I. JANE, opening the door for him to become Director of Photography on Tony Scott's 1998 action-thriller, ENEMY OF THE STATE. Mindel’s continued work with Tony Scott on films such as SPY GAME and DOMINO allowed him to enlarge his visual palette and break new ground through experimentation and innovation. In 2006, director J.J. Abrams selected Mindel to be Director of Photography on MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III, marking the beginning of another exciting, and extremely successful creative alliance, including STAR TREK (2009), STAR WARS: EPISODE VII – THE FORCE AWAKENS and most recently, STAR WARS: EPISODE IX – THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. Mindel’s unique artistic approach to his cinematography, as well as his use of analog film are responsible for the signature look of the productions to which he lends his talents.

One of the most respected and acclaimed cinematographers in the world, Rodrigo Prieto is known for his meticulous setups, unconventional camerawork, rich use of color and creating a moving, visceral experience for the audience. Nominated for three Academy Awards for his work on BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2006), and Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE (2017) and THE IRISHMAN (2019), he has also been recognized with American Society of Cinematographers, Independent Spirit, BAFTA, and Online Film Critics Society Awards. Passionate about his work as a cinematographer, Rodrigo also directed his first short film, LIKENESS, starring Elle Fanning, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013. Rodrigo is a frequent collaborator with Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, Oliver Stone and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. His first collaboration with Inarritu, AMORES PERROS (2000), is widely hailed as the cinematographer’s breakthrough, and spurred Rodrigo’s relation from Mexico to Los Angeles. This movie, along with their next two projects, 21 GRAMS and BABEL, are regarded as the three films that have led the renaissance of Mexican cinema. Other notable films Rodrigo has shot include PASSENGERS, ARGO and THE WOLF OF WALL STREET.

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L’appareil LEICA SL récompensé comme « meilleur appareil premium » par le TIPA Award 2016

L’appareil LEICA SL récompensé comme « meilleur appareil premium » par le TIPA Award 2016

Le système d’appareil sans miroir Leica SL a été récompensé comme « meilleur appareil premium » par le prix TIPA Award 2016. L’appareil Leica SL présenté en octobre 2015 a séduit le jury international composé de rédacteurs des plus importants magazines de photographie en posant de nouveaux jalons en matière de vitesse, de qualité d’image, de polyvalence et d’innovation dans la meilleure qualité Leica. La remise du 26e TIPA Awards aura lieu le 20 septembre 2016 à Cologne dans le cadre du salon photokina.

Équipé d’un capteur plein format 24 MP CMOS, cet appareil est synonyme d’une excellente qualité d’image grâce à des composants parfaitement adaptés les uns aux autres, des optiques haut de gamme au viseur électronique. Le processeur ultra-performant de la série Maestro II garantit que l’appareil réagit immédiatement à toutes les commandes. Avec une mémoire de deux Go, le processeur permet une vitesse de photos en rafale de jusqu’à onze images par seconde à une pleine résolution de 24 MP et des enregistrements vidéo 4k de 30 images par seconde. Le viseur électronique EyeRes d’une impressionnante résolution de 4,4 millions de pixels offre une vision complètement nouvelle et garantit, avec le grand écran de 2,95 pouces, un contrôle optimal de l’image. Les parties du boîtier fraisées dans de l’aluminium plein et l’usinage précis des joints des éléments de commande et des objectifs protègent parfaitement la technique intérieure sensible de la poussière et des éclaboussures.

Une fois par an, la Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) récompense dans 40 catégories les meilleurs produits de photographie et d’imagerie de l’année. Lors de l’assemblée générale TIPA de cette année, 27 magazines membres de 15 pays et le Camera Journal Press Club japonais (CJPC) ont choisi les meilleurs produits de chaque catégorie.

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Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts 2013, Sydney, Australia

Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts 2013, The space between us

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Through 28 July 2013

THE ANNE LANDA AWARD was the first acquisitive award in Australia to focus on moving image and practices and the application of new technologies to contemporary art. Established in 2004, in honour of Anne Landa, a former trustee of the gallery who embraced challenging art and ideas, the award is a vital platform for presenting and supporting dynamic, exploratory work that is exemplary in this area. The participating artists are eligible for the acquisitive award of $25,000, which sees the winning work enter the Gallery’s collection. Previous winners include: David Rosetzky 2004/5, Monika Tichacek 2006/7, TV Moore 2009, and David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, 2011.

JAMES NEWITT 

Say it like you want it, 2012, production still 

Image courtesy and © the artist

The exhibition The space between us considers the interrelation of video and performance. The fifth in the biennial Anne Landa Award series, this year’s edition is guest-curated by Charlotte Day, Director, Monash University Museum of Art, and features the work of artists Lauren Brincat, Alicia Frankovich, Laresa Kosloff, Angelica Mesiti, Kate Mitchell, James Newitt and Christian Thompson.

The seven artists are connected through their interest in the artist as performing body, the artist as creator/director of performances, and the viewer’s role in relation to the works and as active participant. This resurgence in performative art continues out of a desire to question and test established exhibition and viewing habits, as well as the relative distinctions and distances between artist, artwork and audience, said Charlotte Day.

The exhibition incorporates many live as well as documented performances; visitors may experience tambourine players, women on horseback, groups of people testing their physical endurance and other unexpected encounters in the vicinity of the Gallery.

A digital publication has been produced in association with the exhibition. This publication is available via an app for iPad and include essays, documentation of exhibited works, video, audio and other interactive features.

THE ARTISTS

Sydney-based Lauren Brincat recent work High Horse 2012 is a video recording of an endurance performance in which the artist stood on top of a horse in a pose inspired by a statue of Joan of Arc she saw in Paris. For this exhibition, Brincat will also direct two live performances involving women on horseback riding to the Gallery and 50 people playing tambourines in the Gallery’s entrance court.

Berlin-based Alicia Frankovich appropriates movements and gestures from sport, dance, art history and cinema in her performances, video documentation and sculptural installations. Part of her work in this exhibition is a performance involving a group of joggers, directed by Frankovich in the Gallery’s entrance court.

In her new work, Melbourne-based Laresa Kosloff has filmed viewers in the grand courts at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Kosloff’s project reconsiders who is the subject and what is the object of art and re-establishes the potential for participation and performance in the Gallery.

The four-screen video of Paris-based Angelica Mesiti records diverse performers who in the Western cities they now live in each maintain ties with their birthplace through rhythm, sounds and music. This ambitious video project reflects on deep and powerful memories of the performers and how experience may flow from the inner body into the social space of the community.

Sydney-based Kate Mitchell presents a new work in which she smashes through a series of coloured glass panes, creating a video installation that showcases her interest in performing stunts and pushing herself beyond her comfort zone.

A new video by Lisbon-based James Newitt, made during a residency in Liverpool, UK, shows the evolving dynamic between two opposing groups of volunteers whom he brought together to enact a protest rally.

Oxford-based Christian Thompson employs his father’s Bidjara language, taking the word for the bullroarer, djuldibha, to create an immersive and meditative soundscape of both language and the sound and rhythm of an ancient technology designed to communicate over great distances.

ART GALLERY NSW, SYDNEY

Art gallery's website: www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

Lucas Dolega Photojournalism Award in homage to the photographer

First edition of the “Prix Lucas Dolega”, new annual Lucas Dolega International Award for photojournalists, organised by the association created to pay tribute to the young photographer died this year.

In Tunis, on January 17th 2011, the photographer Lucas Dolega (Loucas Von Zabiensky-Mebrouk) died, while covering the ‘Jasmine Revolution’. He was 32 years old. In order to pay tribute to Lucas Dolega, and through him, to all the photojournalists who risk their lives for the freedom of information, his family, close relations and friends decided to create the Association Lucas Dolega, and to launch an Award.

Designed to support photographers who sometimes work under difficult conditions in dangerous areas, this award aims to reward a photographer who, through his or her personal commitment, involvement in the field, his or her capacity to take a stand, as well as the quality of his or her work, will have demonstrated their commitment to the freedom of information.

Participants will have to present a report on a conflict (civil or military wars, riots, attacks or public demonstrations), a revolution, a natural disaster, or their consequences on civilians.

“Prix Photographique Lucas Dolega” (Lucas Dolega Photography Award). Photo © LUCAS DOLEGA. This picture was taken by the photographer in Tunis on January 14, 2011.

The Lucas Dolega Award is organised in partnership with the Mairie de Paris, Polka Magazine and with the support of Reporters sans Frontières, the Lucas Dolega Award will reward one photographer every year. The winner will receive an endowment by Nikon of 10.000 Euros, and will have their work displayed at an exhibition in Paris and published in the RSF album. Furthermore, the winner will have part or all his report published in an issue of Polka Magazine, and will be offered the production of another story by Polka Magazine.

Closing of candidatures, November 10th 2011

The complete rules of the Award and the application form are available for downloading on the site of the Lucas Dolega Award:
www.prixlucasdolega.org

Les catalogues Artcurial ont la cote

Lors de sa 41e compétition, le Club des directeurs artistiques a distingué, dans la catégorie « Edition », les catalogues « Tabloïds » imaginés en avril 2009 par LAURENT FETIS pour la maison de vente ARTCURIAL.

CATALOGUE ARTCURIAL

Pages intérieurs d'un catalogue Artcurial au format tabloid 

pour une vente Design contemporain

Photo © Courtesy Artcurial

Ces nouveaux catalogues, de grand format et imprimés sur papier « offset », sont destinés à la promotion de nombreuses ventes organisée à Paris à l’Hôtel Marcel Dassault : « Intérieurs du 20e siècle/ Art déco, Design », Bijoux et Montres, « Arts décoratifs du XVIe au XIXe siècle » etc. 

CATALOGUES ARTCURIAL 

Photo © Courtesy Artcurial

Dans un communiqué de presse, Artcurial considère que : 

« Ces catalogues sont devenus en quelques années l’une des « signatures » de la maison prouvant sa singularité et sa capacité d’innovation.
Enfin, ces catalogues, par leur présentation simple et accessible, ont conquis une nouvelle génération d’enchérisseurs »

www.artcurial.com

Fujicolor Eterna-RDI Academy Award

 

FUJIFILM TO RECEIVE SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARD
FROM THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES

Award Given For Development Of World's First Film Stock
Specifically Designed To Produce High Picture Quality
From Digital Image Data

 

FUJIFILM Corporation has announced that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected FUJIFILM Corporation to receive an Academy Award® on February 20, 2010, in the Scientific and Engineering category.

The award is being given in recognition of the significant picture quality and workflow improvements made possible in the moviemaking process through the development of Fujicolor ETERNA-RDI, the first motion picture film in the world designed specifically for use in converting digital image data to negative film. The award is given in the name of FUJIFILM Corporation as well as in the names of Ryoji Nishimura, Masaaki Miki and Youichi Hosoya, the three Fujifilm engineers who designed and developed the product.

“Everyone at Fujifilm is proud of this achievement and proud to be recognized by the most prestigious institution in the motion picture industry. Best of all, we are gratified that our work has helped to answer an unmet industry need with a solution that will contribute to the enjoyment of motion pictures and to visual technology and cinema culture,” said Graeme Parcher, group vice president, FUJIFILM North American Motion Picture Division. “Most importantly, our sincere congratulations go to Ryoji, Masaaki, Youichi and the entire R&D and engineering team for their hard work and dedication in making this industry recognition possible and for receiving this high honor from the Academy.”

Today the use of digital technology in the making of motion pictures, especially in the editing and visual effects process, is widespread; yet the majority of movie theaters still present on silver halide film. To bridge this digital/analog gap the moviemaker must convert the digital master to intermediate film. However, since no intermediate film had been specially designed for this application there had been a large disparity in image quality between the digital master and the film reproduction, resulting in a strong industry demand for something better. In 2007, Fujifilm answered that demand, introducing ETERNA-RDI -- the first specialized film for digital recorder output that dramatically improved the image quality of film recording.

ETERNA-RDI offers a significant improvement over intermediate films not specifically designed for digital reproduction, producing fine detail and accurate color from digital image data. In order to achieve high picture image quality Mssrs. Nishimura, Miki and Hosoya developed two proprietary technologies, Super Nano Cubic Grain Technology and Super Efficient Light Control Technology, and worked to ensure that the technologies would complement and enhance each other. As a result ETERNA-RDI can faithfully reproduce even the most challenging high contrast images. This contributes to the printing of sharp, crisp images and makes it possible to achieve rich images that convey a strong sense of depth and dimension.

 

ETERNA-RDI Features

Great Image Blur Reduction: Laser-created high-detail digital images that could not be reproduced on intermediate film can be reproduced on ETERNA-RDI. Ordinarily, when the intensities of lines and text contrast strongly with those of their surroundings, thin lines become thinner and disappear, and fat lines are blurred. This makes the reproduction of details difficult. With ETERNA-RDI, even the highlighted areas of high-contrast images can be reproduced with very high similarity to the original image.

Faithful Tone and Color Reproduction: ETERNA-RDI widens the range of expressible densities. ETERNA-RDI reduces image irregularities even in highlighted areas, makes the expression of darker shadowed areas richer, and increases resolution. The combination of these factors leads to tone reproduction that conveys an intense sense of depth. Furthermore, while the reproduction of original colors at the edges of the color range was difficult in the past, ETERNA-RDI is capable of reproducing these colors faithfully.

Improved Lab Handling: In the post-production phase accurate reproduction in the film development process is the goal. It takes a few seconds to record a single frame; this means that for a single 2000-ft roll the time between when the film is exposed and when it is developed is 15 hours or more. When using conventional intermediate film, this long duration causes color discrepancies between the top frame and the last frame in long reels of film and requires additional lab hours to correct the discrepancies. The superior photographic stability of ETERNA-RDI maintains true color reproduction from the top to the last frame, thereby reducing lab workload.

2010 International CES Show Close

 

Gary Shapiro, CEA president and CEO, delivers his annual state of
the industry address at the 2010 International CES.
Photo © 2010 CEA - Courtesy CEA

 

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Ford's Alan Mulally, Intel's Paul Otellini, Nokia's Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Qualcomm's Dr. Paul Jacobs and Hisense's Zhou Houjian.

More than 250 conference sessions took place over the four days of the 2010 CES spanning industry topics ranging from distracted driving to social media.

At show close, preliminary registration figures indicate more than 120,000 industry professionals attended the 2010 International CES, up from the 2009 CES which hosted 113,085 verified attendees. International attendance also increased over the 2009 CES by more than 1,000 attendees. More than 5,000 reporters, analysts and bloggers attended the show, generating significant global media coverage of the 2010 CES. CEA conducts an independent audit of International CES attendance and the final verified figures will be released in the spring.

The 2010 CES welcomed government officials from the U.S. and around the world, including U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski and FCC Commissioners Meredith Atwell Baker, Mignon Clyburn and Robert McDowell. Some 100 other government officials attended CES.

The 2010 International CES was a celebrity-filled event with entertainment and sports figures on the CES show floor, including Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre, Drew Carey, P.Diddy, Tommy Lee, Joba Chamberlain, Prince Fielder, author James Patterson, Bette Midler and CBS Sportscaster James Brown.

 

Lady Gaga makes an appearance with Monster Cable's CEO Noel Lee,
Jimmy Lovine and Dr. Dre at the 2010 International CES.
Photo © 2010 CEA - Courtesy CEA

 

The 2011 International CES will be held in Las Vegas, January 6-9, 2011.

 

BEST OF INNOVATIONS HONOREES

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The Best European Film 2009

 

The winners of the 22nd European Film Awards are :

 

Best European Film 2009 :

Das weisse band - The White Ribbon, Le Ruban blanc,

Germany/Austria/France/Italy

Director and Screenwriter: Michael Haneke
Director of photography: Christian Berger
Producer: Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Andrea Occhipinti
Cast: Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur, Ursina Lardi, Michael Kranz, Burghart Klaussner, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Josef Bierbichler, Rainer Bock, Branko Samarovski, Roxanne Duran
Production designer: Christoph Kanter
Costume designer: Moidele Bickel
Editor: Monika Willi
Production companies: X Filme Creative Pool, Les Films du Losange, Wega Film, Lucky Red
Sales: Les Films du Losange
145 minutes

European Director 2009 : Michael Haneke for Das weisse band - The White Ribbon

European Actor 2009 : Tahar Rahim in Un Prophète - A Prophet

European Actress 2009 : Kate Winslet in The Reader - Der Vorleser

European Screenwriter 2009 : Michael Haneke for Das weisse band - The White Ribbon

Carlo di Palma European Cinematographer Award : Anthony Dod Mantle for Antichrist and Slumdog Millionaire

European Film Academy Prix d’excellence 2009 : Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier, Jean-Paul Hurier and Marc Doisne for the Sound Design of Un Prophète - A Prophet

European Composer 2009 : Alberto Iglesias for Los abrazos rotos - Broken Embraces

European Discovery 2009 : Katalin Varga, Romania/UK/Hungary, written and directed by Peter Strickland - produced by Tudor Giurgiu, Oana Giurgiu and Peter Strickland

European Film Academy Animated Feature Film 2009 : Mia et le Migou - Mia and the Migoo, France/Italy, directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd

European Film Academy Short Film 2009 : Poste restante by Marcel Lozinski

European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 : Ken Loach

European Achievement in World Cinema 2009 : Isabelle Huppert

European Film Academy Documentary 2009 – Prix Arte 2009 : The Sound of Insects - Record of a Mummy, Switzerland by Peter Liechti

European co-production Award – Prix Eurimages 2009 : Diana Elbaum and Jani Thiltges

European Film Academy Critics Award 2009 – Prix Fipresci 2009 : Andrzej Wajda for Tatarak - Sweet Rush

People’s Choice Award for Best European Film 2009 : Slumdog Millionaire, UK, directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy and produced by Christian Colson

Nikon F70 DSLR Grand Prix 2004 Award

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Nikon announces that the D70 DSLR camera has been selected to receive the Camera Grand Prix 2004 award as the single most outstanding still camera.

The Camera Grand Prix is the most prestigious award presented to a camera in the Japanese photo industry. It is sponsored by the Camera Press Club, an organization founded in September 1963 and comprised of writers from thirteen of Japan's leading photography and camera publications.

This year's selection committee of 51 photographers, scholars, and magazine editors selected the D70 to receive the 21st annual Camera Grand Prix award as the single most outstanding still camera from 172 nominees released between April 2003 and March 2004. This is the 4th time Nikon has received the award, with previous wins in 1984 (the 1st Grand Prix) for the Nikon FA, in 1989 (the 6th Grand Prix) for the Nikon F4, and in 1997 (the 14th Grand Prix) for the Nikon F5.

The committee members issued the following statement of reasons for bestowing the honor of camera of the year on the D70: "The Nikon D70 delivers a superior balance of performance, price, and size. Despite being positioned as a new popular-priced digital SLR model, the camera is loaded with features that challenge even higher priced products. It overcomes the traditional weaknesses of digital cameras by realizing fast power-up and fast continuous shooting, and earns special notice for realizing response that is on par with 35mm film SLR cameras while improving practicality and comfort of use. Clearly labeled menu options make operation easier for novices and combine with the camera's other features to make it accessible to a wider range of users, thereby achieving a level where the D70 establishes an entirely new trend in digital SLR cameras.

In addition, the following features help welcome a new era of digital SLR cameras that are ready to perform and accessible to a wide audience: Quick response that allows shooting the instant the camera is turned on.

3 frame per second continuous shooting for bursts of up to 144 shots.

Fast 1/8000 second shutter speed and 1/500 flash sync shutter speed.

A fast and precise autofocus system.

Menu options that are easy to view and easy to understand.

Quality feel and design that is consistent with the Nikon lineup."

Ikuko Tsuchiya & Marc Newton, 2000 winners of the Jack Jackson Award

Ikuko Tsuchiya & Marc Newton
2000 winners of the Jack Jackson Award

The 2000 winners of the Jack Jackson Award are Ikuko Tsuchiya who took a Master of Art in Photography at Nottingham Trent University and Marc Newton who has just completed a BA in Fine Art at the London Guildhall University specialising in photography. Ikuko  Tsuchiya received £1,409 towards her photographic documentation of therapeutic community life in Botton Village, North Yorkshire, home to UK adults with learning difficulties and co-workers from all over the world. Marc Newton received £242 for his project on Bondway, a London housing shelter for homeless men.

The two winners are presenting their work to members of the photographic and imaging industry and trade press on 16 January 2001 at the Bayer Conference Centre (courtesy of Agfa Geveart), Stoke Court, Stoke Poges, Slough.

The work will also be on display at Focus on Imaging, NEC, Birmingham from 25 February - 28 February 2001 (courtesy of Mary Walker Exhibitions Ltd).

IKUKO TSUCHIYA

Ikuko Tsuchiya has recently completed an MA Photography at Nottingham Trent University

Her project concerned photographic documentation of therapeutic community life and the representation of what she considers important in order to live as a human being in aspects of both Subjective Interpretation and Objective Observation.

The project is based on the lives of the inhabitants of Botton Village, North Yorkshire, which is home to about 160 adults with learning difficulties from the UK and over 140 of the co-workers from all over the world. They look after their own homes, run farms, market gardens, a food centre and bakery.

The village was founded by the Austrian Dr Karl Konig in 1955 as a Christian community run according to the principles of the Austrian philosopher, Rudolph Steiner.

Ikuko Tsuchiya was not only interested in recording the appearances of those who live in the community and have mental handicaps as a photographic objective, she sought out their inner element as human beings and tried to learn the source of humanity through observation which is complicated in our life in the present.

In fact, her first visit prompted her resolution to come to Britain again. Perhaps, it reawakened her awareness of what humanity is, by allowing her to make comparisons with her experiences of life in Japan where she grew up.

She has applied Subjective Interpretation in order to reflect her viewpoints concerning what she thinks is important to life. She believes this interpretation is apparent in the selection of people and their surrounding situation which became her photographic objective. She selected the people through her contacts with the community life.

An aspect of Objective Observation reflects the camera viewpoint as machinery for developing her subjectivity objectively. The objectivity is in the photographic representation of her subjective experience. In addition, selecting and using photographic equipment was also interdependent with the representation of her subjectivity. She used medium format camera (6x7) and black & white film.

Ikuko Tsuchiya developed her proposed project from these experiences and a pursuit of what she considers to be the important things in life and she regarded this as a serious and meaningful project.

MARC NEWTON

Marc Newton has recently graduated with a BA in Fine Art at the London Guildhall University where he specialised in photography.

Marc Newton works voluntarily at an organisation called 'Bondway'. Bondway's outreach project travels the streets of London and takes in homeless men they feel are more vulnerable living rough. He has got to know the residents in the shelter and it has opened his mind to the neglect the homeless receive. The people of the shelter have many problems from alcoholism to ill mental health and Marc decided he wanted to reflect the feel of Bondway and it's powerful characters through Photography.

The shelter agreed to allow him to take photographs and he has gained some potent imagery, from photographs of people who can no longer control their own body to images of people's attempts to take their own life. Working with Bondway and meeting the people within has opened his mind and created a different perspective of the homeless. He sees these people as very strong characters who have simply come across some kind of misfortune in their life that has put them where they are today.

The general public is used to seeing the homeless in doorways or on street corners, just walking by them as if they're not there. Marc Newton states: 

"The fact is that these people do exist and all have their own special personalities and are just as equal as the people ignoring them. The photographs bring these characters to the surface and create an essence of Bondway's atmosphere showing these people as they are in their own natural environment, something that we are not used to seeing. It is a touching sight and I hope that through the opportunity to show this work to the public, maybe the next time they walk past a homeless person in a doorway, their view of them may be different or at least they will not be ignored."

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