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Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Easter Island

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Easter Island

The Louis Vuitton Travel Book collection offers a new and contemporary vision of travel, both real and virtual. Intended as works of art in themselves, they depict each destination through the eyes of an artist in 100-120 exclusive drawings. In his dream-like gouaches, Arsham imagines for the Travel Book Easter Island a cosmogony in touches of grey and black, paying attention to perspective and subtle nuances.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Venice

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Venice

This Louis Vuitton Travel book showcases the unique perspectives of contemporary artists to offer a contemporary vision of travel. Here, the famous manga master Jirô Taniguchi has created an exclusive story set in Venice.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Mexico

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Mexico

In this new Louis Vuitton Travel Book, the French writer, illustrator and painter Nicolas de Crécy depicts Mexico as a baroque land full of poetry. In over 100 exclusive drawings and painting, he offers varied graphic and stylistic forms that rivisit genres and techniques.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - London

Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - London

The Louis Vuitton Travel Book collection offers a new and contemporary vision of travel, both real and virtual. Intended as works of art in themselves, they depict each destination through the eyes of an artist in 100-120 exclusive drawings. The Travel Book London by emerging Japanese artist Natsko Seki offers a lively and poetic vision of the UK capital.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Yayoi Kusama

Advice to the Young from Yayoi Kusama

What piece of advice would one of the world’s most iconic contemporary artists pass on? Japanese Yayoi Kusama here turns the tables and argues that advice should not come from other people: I am not an art teacher to you. Spread your ideas all over the world. Kusama encourages artists to trust their own creativity, explore themselves and discover their own path in life: A true direction will come from overcoming adversity.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Bjarke Ingels

Advice to the Young from Bjarke Ingels

Renowned Danish architect Bjarke Ingels here offers his architectural advice to aspiring architects and explains why architecture is fundamentally important for the world we live in.  Bjarke Ingels is considered one of the greatest architects of our time, with projects such as the BIG U, which contains a plan to fortify the whole south tip of Manhattan against future storms and rising sea levels. His architectural vision evolves around a philosophy that could be described as a pragmatic utopianism, combining everyday needs with sustainable solutions to the climatic challenges.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Marina Abramović

Advice to the Young from Marina Abramović

Follow your intuition. Have courage. Do what you imagine. And always be completely present in the moment. Marina Abramović on what it really means to be an artist: A great artist has to be ready to fail. Meet the charismatic performance artist Marina Abramović in this interview on what it means to be an artist, waking up each morning with an urge to be creative.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Patti Smith

Advice to the Young from Patti Smith

Build a good name, rock poet Patti Smith advises the young. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and protect your work. The American singer, poet and photographer Patti Smith is a living punk rock legend. In this video she gives powerful advice to the young: “Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Norman Foster

Advice to the Young from Norman Foster

Norman Foster, one of the architectural icons of our time, here advises upcoming architects and artists to make sure that what they’re doing is their true desire – if not, they should simply find something else. When you can’t imagine doing anything else, and you would do anything to be able to do it, then you know you’ve made the right decision. From then on it’s a matter of completely immersing yourself in that choice: You live it every living second of your life.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Olafur Eliasson

Advice to the Young from Olafur Eliasson

Artists should have confidence in the fact that making a drawing is changing the world. Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson, here presents his strong and personal advice to young artists. Making art is making the world, Eliasson continues, stressing his point that art should not be marginalized, as art is not fragile, but quite the opposite. Artists should be very sensitive to their surroundings and the context in which they find themselves. They should, however, also stay true to themselves and make sure that the strong market and its attractiveness does not commercialize them.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Wim Wenders

Advice to the Young from Wim Wenders

Do what nobody else can do except for you. Such is the unflagging advice from German filmmaker Wim Wenders, who in this video gives us his take on how to become a successful artist. According to Wenders, achieving success in your creative endeavors is quite simply a matter of finding the thing that you can do better than anyone else. The message is clear and delivered with great resolution by one of the most important German directors on the international scene.

Duration : 56s
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from David Byrne

Advice to the Young from David Byrne

If the musician or artist values their freedom and the ability to be creative, then they have to realize they won’t be making hundreds of millions of dollars. Sound advice from the multifaceted musician David Byrne. If you value your creative freedom, you might have to do other work on the side, to make a living, Byrne explains: Often the artists who are very successful don’t have much flexibility. In achieving success they lose a lot of their creative freedom. They have to keep making the same thing, more or less, over and over again.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Fred Tomaselli

Advice to the Young from Fred Tomaselli

You might as well be true to what you want to do and not turn art into another day job. Watch Fred Tomaselli, a master of psychedelic artwork, advise artists to create their own art world instead of waiting for the established art scene to discover them. Don’t expect any material awards for what you do, and don’t try to adapt to a surrounding trend: If you’re doing something counter to the zeitgeist, that’s probably a good idea – you’re probably on the right path. If you’re doing what everybody else is doing – so what?

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Advice to the Young from Jonathan Franzen

Advice to the Young from Jonathan Franzen

How do you succeed as a writer? Get useful, and humorous, advice from someone who indeed has indeed made it through the loophole – chart-topping American novelist Jonathan Franzen. If you hang out with me I would have a lot of advice. Although I would feel somewhat embarrassed about giving advice to the young writer, Franzen begins. The most important advice I have is to have fun… if you’re having fun there’s a good chance that the reader will too. Having fun, however, should be in the sense that there’s still a kind of structure and focus to it: Fun like you’re in a tennis court… That’s the kind of focused fun I’m talking about.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Fabienne Verdier: Inspiration

Fabienne Verdier: Inspiration

Fabienne Verdier is a French painter. She did her studies in China and now she works in France. This video is about her creative process, the inspiration she finds for her artworks. Her creative process involves three phases. She records first her thoughts and research in notebooks. Then she prepares the canvas and finally she shapes the paint matter to express fundamental life forces.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Mounir Fatmi: Technologia

Mounir Fatmi: Technologia

Mounir Fatmi is a Moroccan artist. His art includes video, installation, drawing, sculpture and painting. Technology is a work inside a work because it links ancient circular Arabic calligraphy and Marcel Duchamp’s rotoreliefs, the first manifestation of optical art produced in the context of modern industrialized society. Moonier Fatmi observes the shape of today’s world and the motion of a global contemporary society.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

Eelco Brand: B1 Movi

Eelco Brand: B1 Movi

Eelco Brand uses paint and digital techniques to create images that reflect his conception of nature. His work represents his vision of the human beings nature and the world around him. Viewing his work can be both: an alienating and deeply human experience.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Eelco Brand: R Movi

Eelco Brand: R Movi

Eelco Brand uses paint and digital techniques to create images that reflect his conception of nature. His work represents his vision of the human beings nature and the world around him. Viewing his work can be both an alienating and deeply human experience.

Duration : 59s
Maturity Level : all

Nicolás Rupcich: EDF

Nicolás Rupcich: EDF

Nicolás Rupcich studied his Bachelor of Arts degree at the U. Finis Terrae. He works mainly with photography, video and installation, his work focuses on issues related to digital image postproduction and technologies related to image production today. He has exhibited his works in individual and collective exhibitions in Chile and abroad, but also in international new media festivals.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Nicolás Rupcich: ML

Nicolás Rupcich: ML

Nicolás Rupcich studied his Bachelor of Arts degree at the U. Finis Terrae. He works mainly with photography, video and installation, his work focuses on issues related to digital image postproduction and technologies related to image production today. He has exhibited his works in individual and collective exhibitions in Chile and abroad, but also in international new media festivals.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Joe Hamilton: Trouble in Utopia

Joe Hamilton: Trouble in Utopia

Joe Hamilton makes use of technology and found material to create intricate compositions. His recent work questions our established notions of the natural environment within a society that is becoming increasingly networked.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Joe Hamilton: Hyper Geography

Joe Hamilton: Hyper Geography

Joe Hamilton makes use of technology and found material to create intricate compositions. His recent work questions our established notions of the natural environment within a society that is becoming increasingly networked.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Yiannis Kranidiotis: Ichographs

Yiannis Kranidiotis: Ichographs

Yiannis Kranidiotis is an artist whose work explores the relationship between science and art using mainly light, motion and sound to create spaces and experiences where all coexist and interact. Ichographs is a method of creating soundscapes using visual stimulus and the color-frequency transformation. The painting is transformed into the audio domain and back to visual producing a contemporary amalgamation. As we pass through the various color/frequency layers, we investigate the connections between classical aesthetics and the digital practice, revealing a latent version of the old masterpiece. The final artwork is a contemporary amalgamation of the old painting and the modern abstraction methods, a harmonious dialog between the old and the new, the analog and the digital.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Claudia Hart: Digital Death

Claudia Hart: Digital Death

Claudia Hart emerged as part of that generation of 90s intermedia artists in the Identity Art niche but now updated through the scrim of technology. Her work is about issues of the body, perception, nature collapsing into technology and then back again. Everything is fluid in it including gender.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all