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FEBRUARY 2014
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Selfies

There's no more hiding or denying it - and even our desperate attempts to hijack the selfie craze will not change the inevitable fact: this year we turn officially OLD!
And we intend to do so bright eyed, bushy tailed and with a festive bang in your company, at the...

10th Anniversary Edition
PICTOPLASMA BERLIN 2014
Contemporary Character Design and Art Conference and Festival
30 April – 4 May 2014

Gumball

After a full decade of tirelessly celebrating the wondrous world of character-driven visuals, our upcoming 10th anniversary edition awaits you for a special firework of inspiration, joyous play, and grown-up networking. The jubilee conference is crowned by a truly epochal line-up of outstanding artists: apart from previously announced conference speakers such as Tim Biskup, James Jarvis, Diana Beltran Herrera or Buff Monster, we can confirm the participation of Ben Bocquelet (UK/FR), creator of the famed "Amazing World of Gumball"; Benjamin Van Oost (BE), sculptor extraordinaire of Toykyo and Case Studyo glory; …

Nychos

...Nychos (AT), master of dissected urban art and bigger than life anatomical murals; Amanda Visell (USA), lovingly updating the iconic graphic population of 1950s America; Craig Redman (AUS/USA), sharing his cyclopean view on all things high and low via his Darcel Disappoints alter-ego; Mikey Please (UK), award winning filmmaker and animation wunderkind; and Bubi Au Yeung (HK), internationally known for her heart-warming Treeson character.

Treeson

Additionally, the Character Walk, a 20-stop exhibition tour, beckons from galleries and showrooms throughout Berlin Mitte and Neukölln, with must-see highlights such as the first-ever Pictoplasma Academy group show featuring the talent of the forty international participants of our new master-class, and a central Ancestral Portrait Gallery housing brand new works by the 100 most influential artists, designers, illustrators, and filmmakers who have shaped the Pictoplasma project over the past 100 years.

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As if that weren't enough, endless eye-candy, psychedelia, and storytelling is set to illuminate the big screen during the animation programmes, and open-end club nights offer those of you insatiable full-body immersion into the exuberance of Characters in Rhythm – culminating of course in one colossal birthday bash.
While we expect to be sold out well before the event kicks off, full Conference registration is currently still possible at berlin.pictoplasma.com/registration.

There is so much more 2014 related news to follow shorty, but for now - at our age - we've been advised to take it one step at a time…

peter and lars

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This month's eye-candy from top to bottom: Our current call for entries: CHARACTER SELFIES (deadline for submissions coming up soon!), Gumball galore by Conference speaker Ben Bocquelet, a little rabbit dissection by speaker Nychos, some face-to-face Treeson time by Bubi Au Yeung, and animation sneak peak thanks to weareplace.com




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