What is the Swan Lake: Moving Image & Music Award?
The Swan Lake: Moving Image & Music Award is an education oriented award programme created to honour the very best in the new age music video clip creation. The award aims to couple educational multimedia teaching programmes with digital art, focusing in discovering and promoting young talents from university environments all over Europe and beyond. Since 2004 SL:MIMA has been a price of innovation for students and free artists in the sector of cross-media. Moreover there is a unique connection to musicians of New Age music genre. In worldwide cooperations they lend their songs to get inventive and nonrecurring videoclips for their music. In this unique symbiosis the aim is not only to establish a well-known price but to build a network of talented people and support them on their way. A series of workshops accompanies the programme and is aimed at familiarising students with the whole range of digital art technologies – from visualisation and rendering techniques, to digital aesthetic
