Onedotzero: Международная организация цифрового искусства

Digital arts organisation

onedotzero is a contemporary digital arts organisation based in London that aims to promote new work in moving image and motion arts. The organisation conducts public events, artist and content development, publishing projects, education, production, creative direction, and related visual art consultancy services. It holds international events, including the onedotzero festival first held in 1997. onedotzero is supported by the Arts Council of England. It runs a free open submission scheme, and receives around 2,000 entries from all over the world each year. The group curates, commissions, produces, and presents new moving image works that also include music, architecture, design, film, interaction design, computer gaming and live audio visual explorations.

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

In 1999 the festival span off the TV series onedottv it was produced and programmed by Hanson and Walter. In 2001, a 12 part follow up maxi series "onedottv global " was made for the UK television channel Channel 4, directed and produced by the co directors, with camera by Grant Gee. It involved filming subjects in Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sweden and Paris.

The onedotzero DVD label, launched in 2001, distributes and sells in several countries. The onedotzero select DVD series are compilations with 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. Subsequent releases include a DVD single the multi award winning black and white animated short Who I Am And What I Want by artist David Shrigley and director Chris Shepherd, of Slinky Pictures.

In 2004, a book and accompanying DVD, Motion blur: graphic moving imagemakers, was co edited by Hanson and Walter, with interviews mainly sourced from Hanson'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.

Launched in autumn 2006, Bloom was an international competition for moving image artists, which commissioned a series of one minute films that explore identity and community. The films were finished in summer 2007, and shown on MTV and online.

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 for TV, web, live events, visuals, promos, installations, commercials and emergent technologies. Clients include Sony, BBC TV, LG, Nike, Sharp, Stella Artois, Levi Strauss, Absolut Vodka, Diesel, Dentsu, Motorola, S4C, Asian Dub Foundation, 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, Pet Shop Boys, Darren Hayes, Oasis, Chemical Brothers, Pink and Eros Ramazzotti tours, all video content for the Little Britain stage production and video and interactive content / production for the George Michael and Genesis live tours. onedotzero industries works with designers including Willie Williams, Run Wrake, Logan, Julian Opie, UVA, D Fuse, Minivegas, Shroom, and Alex Rutterford, as well as to commissioning new student designers.