onedotzero is a contemporary, digital arts organisation with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts.

It’s activities encompass public events, artist + content development, publishing projects, education, production, creative direction, and related consultancy services.

It is perhaps best known for its international network of events, including the onedotzero festival which has been running for 12 years.

Background and history

onedotzero was created in 1996 by writer and former film critic Matt Hanson

Matt Hanson

Matt Hanson is an author, film producer, and film director, specializing in digital art. He has created a series of projects which investigate cinema's possible futures, including A Swarm of Angels, onedotzero, and book projects including The End of Celluloid...

 as a film festival designed to showcase the vibrant new media collectives and digital arts scene then burgeoning in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. The festival tapped into the new desktop digital filmmaking tools becoming available, and foresaw the desktop digital revolution - what Hanson termed 'the film studio in your flat.' It established a platform to explore moving image across single screen, interactive and live audio-visual work. onedotzero was the first festival to present and commission audio visual performances, computer gaming visuals, music videos, and commercials in a film and arts context.

The first festival in 1997 was produced with short-lived new media arts collective, onearmbandit. It was from this group that new media and theatre producer Shane walter joined Hanson as joint festival director for the second festival (onedotzero2,1998) and subsequent festivals. Hanson and Walter established the onedotzero company later in 1997. After Hanson resigned as director at the end of 2001 Walter continued as sole director (onedotzero6 onwards). He has continued to extend the international reach of the festival ever since.

Other directors whose music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 work was shown in early festivals include Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham is an English music video film director and video artist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk....

, Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television...

, Mike Mills

Mike Mills

Michael Edward "Mike" Mills is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock group R.E.M.. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire includes also keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments...

 and Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Life and career :...

.

Aims and achievements

onedotzero curates, commissions, produces, and presents new innovative moving image works that also include music, architecture, design, film, interaction design, computer gaming and live audio visual explorations.

onedotzero is a contemporary, digital arts organisation with a remit to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and motion arts.

Activities encompass public events, artist + content development, publishing projects, education, production, creative direction, and related consultancy services.

onedotzero is critically acclaimed for producing the world’s most innovative audio-visual festival, onedotzero_adventures in motion.

In November 2008 the festival onedotzero_adventures in motion was held at the BFI Southbank

BFI Southbank

BFI Southbank is the leading repertory cinema in the UK specialising in seasons of classic, independent and non-English language films and is operated by the British Film Institute.-History:...

 and BFI IMAX for the first time. The festival tours internationally including Buenos Aires, Argentina, New York, France, Russia in just commenced an international tour, following sell-out festivals at London’s BFI Southbank in November 8. and in Buenos Aires in September 8.

The festival includes themed compilation screenings featuring short film, music videos, animation and motion graphic from all over the world. It also features live audiovisual performance.

In 2008, onedotzero took over the BFI IMAX for two exclusive events that used the UK's largest screen to full effect. They commissioned innovative British musician Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney is an Indian-British musician, producer and composer. His critically acclaimed work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism, politics and spirituality...

 to collaborate with renowned stage designer Es Devlin and onedotzero industries for a one-off show. They also hosted a night featuring three of the UK's best known audiovisual acts The Light Surgeons, D-Fuse AV

D-Fuse AV

D-Fuse are a London-based audiovisual artist collective, who use emerging creative technologies to explore social and environmental issues. Founded in the mid 90’s by Michael Faulkner, the group’s diverse creative backgrounds combine in a cross-disciplinary practice, including live multi-screen...

 and Hexstatic

Hexstatic

Hexstatic is a UK music duo, consisting of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, that specializes in creating "quirky audio visual electro." Formed in 1997 after Hill and Brunson met while producing visuals at the Channel Five launch party, they decided to take over for the original members of the...

.

The festival also featured installations by artists including Jason Bruges, Troika

Troika

The general meaning of the Russian and Bulgarian word troika is three of a kind, a collection of three or simply the number three. It may also mean:-Politics:* Troika of judges or political leaders...

, Doodlearth and Hexstatic

Hexstatic

Hexstatic is a UK music duo, consisting of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, that specializes in creating "quirky audio visual electro." Formed in 1997 after Hill and Brunson met while producing visuals at the Channel Five launch party, they decided to take over for the original members of the...

In 2006, to mark the tenth anniversary of onedotzero, they held a series of events at some of the UK’s leading art institutions, including onedotzero_transvision at the Victoria and Albert museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...

, onedotzero_amour at the Tate Modern

Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...

, and onedotzero_metamorphosis at the Hayward Gallery

Hayward Gallery

The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre, part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings and also the Royal National Theatre and British Film Institute...

.

onedotzero run a free open submission scheme and receive around 2,000 entries from all over the world each year.

In Screen International

Screen International

Screen International is a multimedia film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by EMAP, a British b2b media company.The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global movie business...

’s 25th anniversary issue onedotzero directors Matt Hanson

Matt Hanson

Matt Hanson is an author, film producer, and film director, specializing in digital art. He has created a series of projects which investigate cinema's possible futures, including A Swarm of Angels, onedotzero, and book projects including The End of Celluloid...

 and Shane Walter were named as one of the top ten visionaries of the UK film industry alongside Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. His most famous films include The Duellists , Alien , Blade Runner , Legend , Thelma & Louise , G. I...

, Chris Nolan and Lynne Ramsay.

The Guardian Film Unlimited

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

described its work as the most, crucial groundbreaking festival of the early 21st-century.http://film.guardian.co.uk/onedotzero2001/storynav/0,,477210,00.html

onedotzero holds an annual festival in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. In September 2008 it's been reported that over 50,000 people attended over the weekend, making it one of their biggest events ever, and saw screenings, installations and live events from Mole

Mole

- Animals :* Mole or "true mole", many of the mammals in the family Talpidae, found in Eurasia and North America* Golden moles, southern African mammals, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles...

and Martin Philips, Peter, Bjorn and John and Hexstatic

Hexstatic

Hexstatic is a UK music duo, consisting of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, that specializes in creating "quirky audio visual electro." Formed in 1997 after Hill and Brunson met while producing visuals at the Channel Five launch party, they decided to take over for the original members of the...

onedotzero is supported by the Arts Council of England.

In 2009 they again held their film festival at the BFI in London "adventures in Motion" and co-curated (with the v&a museum) "decode: digital design sensations" which showcased the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small screen based graphics to large-scale installations, and included 35 works by established international artists and designers including daniel brown, golan levin and daniel rozin as well as emerging designers such as troika and mehmet akten.

Child/Sister projects

onedotzero was conceived as a producing festival and soon created spin offs from its groundbreaking programming.

onedottv

In 1999 the festival span off the TV series onedottv - it was produced and programmed by Hanson and Walter (and based on UK visual pioneers). In 2001 the follow-up maxi-series, a 12-part onedottv_global was made (again for UK’s Channel 4), directed and produced by the co-directors, with camera by Grant Gee

Grant Gee

Grant Gee is a film director and cinematographer currently living in Brighton. He was born in Plymouth and studied Geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford....

 - it involved filming subjects in Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sweden and Paris.

onedotzero DVD label

The onedotzero DVD label, launched in 2001, distributes and sells around the world. The onedotzero_select DVD series are compilations featuring the highlights of the festival screenings, as well as other new works, including short films, documentary and music videos. The fifth edition in the series was released in Summer 2007.

Recent releases include a DVD single - the multi-award winning black and white animated short ‘Who I Am And What I Want’ by cult artist David Shrigley

David Shrigley

-Life and career:Shrigley was born in Macclesfield on 17 September 1968, the younger of two children born to Rita and Joseph Shrigley. Shrigley grew up in Oadby, Leicestershire, England...

 and director Chris Shepherd

Chris Shepherd

Chris Shepherd is a BAFTA nominated television/film writer and director. Born in Anfield, Liverpool in 1967. He is mainly known for combining live action with animation. His work fuses comedy with commentary on the darker side of human nature....

, Slinky Pictures.

onedotzero publishing

In 2004, a book and accompanying DVD, Motion blur: graphic moving imagemakers

Motion blur: graphic moving imagemakers

Motion Blur: graphic moving image makers is a book released by onedotzero in 2004. Produced by Shane Walter and Matt Hanson, it features a number of articles about, and interviews with, 28 multimedia artists and graphic houses. It also includes a DVD featuring a number of videos created by the...

, was co-edited by Hanson and Walter, with interviews mainly sourced from Matt Hanson

Matt Hanson

Matt Hanson is an author, film producer, and film director, specializing in digital art. He has created a series of projects which investigate cinema's possible futures, including A Swarm of Angels, onedotzero, and book projects including The End of Celluloid...

's interviews from the onedotzero_global TV series, and additional photography from Walter . It was published in the UK, Netherlands, and USA, going to reprint twice. The follow-up book, produced by Laurence King, was released in 2008.

onedotzero + MTV Bloom

Launched in Autumn 2006, Bloom was a global competition to find moving image talent from around the world and commissioned a series of one-minute-films that explore identity and community. website. The films were finished in summer 2007, and shown globally on MTV channels and online.

onedotzero industries

onedotzero has a sister production company, onedotzero industries, which was founded by shane walter and sam pattinson. it works in the area of moving image and brand development across TV, web, live events, visuals, promos, installations, commercials and emergent technologies.

Clients include Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

, BBC TV, LG

LG Electronics

LG Electronics is a global electronics and telecommunications company headquartered in Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea. The company operates its business through five divisions: mobile communications, home entertainment, home appliance, air conditioning and business solution...

, Nike

Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...

, Sharp

Sharp Corporation

is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 55,580 people worldwide as of June 2011. The company was founded in September 1912 and takes its name from one of its founder's first...

, Stella Artois

Stella Artois

Stella Artois is a 5% ABV lager brewed in Leuven, Belgium since 1926. In the UK, Canada and New Zealand a 4% ABV version is also available.-Production:...

, Levi Strauss

Levi Strauss

Levi Strauss was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.-Origins:...

, Absolut Vodka

Absolut Vodka

Absolut Vodka is a brand of vodka, produced near Åhus, Skåne, in southern Sweden. Since July 2008 the company has been owned by the French firm Pernod Ricard who bought V&S Group from the Swedish government....

, Diesel, Dentsu

Dentsu

is one of the largest advertising agencies in the world. Its headquarters are located in the Dentsu Building in the Shiodome district of Minato, Tokyo....

, Motorola

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...

, S4C

S4C

S4C , currently branded as S4/C, is a Welsh television channel broadcast from the capital, Cardiff. The first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience, it is the fifth oldest British television channel .The channel - initially broadcast on...

, Asian Dub Foundation

Asian Dub Foundation

Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence...

, The Charlatans, Live8, and Giles Deacon.

Projects include the animation series Geek Boy for the Sci Fi UK Channel, live visual content for the Rolling Stones, U2

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

, Darren Hayes

Darren Hayes

Darren Stanley Hayes is a UK-based Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes was the front man and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States...

 Oasis

Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...

, Chemical Brothers, Pink

Pink (singer)

Alecia Beth Moore , better known by her stage name Pink , is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress....

 and Eros Ramazotti tours, all video content for the Little Britain

Little Britain

Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas...

 stage production and video and interactive content / production for the George Michael

George Michael

George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...

 and Genesis

Genesis (band)

Genesis are an English rock band that formed in 1967. The band currently comprises the longest-tenured members Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins . Past members Peter Gabriel , Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips , also played major roles in the band in its early years...

 live tours.

onedotzero industries works with a wide range of talent, from leading creatives such as Willie Williams

Willie Williams (lighting designer)

Willie Williams is a video director, stage and lighting designer for concerts, theatre, & multimedia projects...

, Run Wrake, Logan, Julian Opie, UVA, D-Fuse, Minivegas, Shroom, and Alex Rutterford to commissioning new student talent.

DVD

• onedotzero_select dvd1 (2003)
• onedotzero_select dvd2 (2004)
• onedotzero_select dvd3 (2004)
• onedotzero_select dvd4 (2005)
• onedotzero_select dvd5 (released Summer 2007)
• Who I Am And What I Want
  Who I Am And What I Want
  Who I Am And What I Want is a 7 minute animated short directed by Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley in 2005. Based on the David Shrigley book of the same title. Kevin Eldon voices the role of the film's main character, Pete. The DVD was released in 2006 with a 12 page booklet with art from the...
  
  (2006) award winning DVD single by David Shrigley
  David Shrigley
  -Life and career:Shrigley was born in Macclesfield on 17 September 1968, the younger of two children born to Rita and Joseph Shrigley. Shrigley grew up in Oadby, Leicestershire, England...
  
   and Chris Shepherd
  Chris Shepherd
  Chris Shepherd is a BAFTA nominated television/film writer and director. Born in Anfield, Liverpool in 1967. He is mainly known for combining live action with animation. His work fuses comedy with commentary on the darker side of human nature....
  
  , Slinky Pictures
• D-Tonate by D-Fuse (2003)

Print

• Motion Blur: Graphic Moving Imagemakers [ISBN 1856694658]
• Motion Blur 2: Multidimensional Moving Imagemakers (published early 2008)

External links

• Website: onedotzero
• Website onedotzero Buenos Aires, Argentina: onedotzero_buenos aires
• onedotzero industries: Production Website: onedotzero_industries
• Web Shop onedotzero web shop
• Bloom new talent competition in conjunction with MTV website
• Myspace profile
• BBC Film Network: watch films from previous festivals