Press
release + + + Amsterdam
12 February 2002
SubmarineChannel
SubmarineChannel is a newly launched online channel for and about
global digital media culture that aims to change the way digital artworks
are made, distributed and consumed.
Slashing barriers to allow media
to bleed into each other, SubmarineChannel harbors and creates beautiful
hybrid monsters. Whether it's bringing a graphic novel to life on screen, a
travel show to your mobile phone, adapting lo-fi Net animations for high
quality TV broadcast, or animating real-life stories.
SubmarineChannel gathers the most stylish, offbeat, original and
arresting artworks for the net into one place. You'll find linear and
interactive works, because the bottom line is using new media to create new
experience. SubmarineChannel has been established not just as a distributor,
but as an active collaborator, helping creatives do what they do best, media
companies look for innovative content, and sponsors to commission new
work.
What's unique about SubmarineChannel is the range and scope of its
activities. From design to Internet, from short digital films to animations
and interactive graphic novels, SubmarineChannel provides a showcase for
work aimed at a young but critical audience, one with a global perspective
on digital culture. It is also genuinely 'cross media', with content
delivered not just on the Net, but for mobile devices, TV and other
formats.
Although based in
mainland Europe, SubmarineChannel is global in scope, bringing inspiring and
original work from Asia, North America and Europe together
under one roof. It uses a range of possibilities for assembling this
content, from exclusive licenses, to acting more as an agent and creating
distribution deals with other web sites and
media.
SubmarineChannel syndicates work not
just to other web portals, but TV companies, mobile services operators and
other media, both traditional and novel. The12-strong company has full,
cross-media production capabilities, from print and video to film and TV,
and represents a growing stable of creative talent. These resources can also be
used to take existing work and re-format and re-edit it, for example making
made-for-Net films TV broadcast-ready.
Unlike most existing channels,
SubmarineChannel also offers a mix of magazine and content delivery,
offering profiles of artists, reporting on digital culture - putting works
into perspective rather than just streaming as many as possible.
On
SubmarineChannel you will find amongst
others:
+ + + The
Killer
Eavesdrop on the ice-cold monologue inside the mind of a contract
killer in episodic graphic novel by Jacamon & Matz.
+ + + Mr
Kahoona
Wise-yet-worldly Mr.Kahoona travels the infinity of digital space
seeking the best and worst web can offer - so you don't have
to.
+
+ + Instant Road Trip
A seven-day, personalized
/story game experience about a virtual holiday in Venice via e-mail and SMS
for people who don’t have the time or money to take a real vacation, by
renowned interactive game-director Douglas Gayeton.
+ + + Tech Pop
Japan
Dispatches from Japan, the frontier of
techno-media urban culture show the fruitful collision between old and new
tech, managing to be both neophilic and anxious at having shed the
past.
+ + +
Chunks
Short works by various artists like Benjamin
Stokes, Evan Mather, Erik Loyer and Dave Jones. Some are interactive, others
are more linear. Some are animations, others are video or film clips, but
they are all short, nice and different.
+ + + City
Tunes
City Tunes, the funny world of
modern romance as seen in these real-life stories stylishly animated by
Submarine.
Submarine is an independent studio in Amsterdam producing
convergence programming and
formats. With expertise of both high quality content and technology,
Submarine focuses on the creation of true new media formats that make use of
the explosion of media channels and outlets. Submarine in the
past two
years produced a number of crossmedia productions, such as a funky teen
documentary series/website 12x12.nl; and a two hour documentary for VPRO
television 'The End of TV as we know it'.
For more information, please contact
Submarine:
www.submarinechannel.com + + + Tel: 31 (0)
20 330 1226 + + + Fax: 31 (0)
20 330 1227 + + + info@submarinechannel.nl