Art battle!
Highlight of the Swatch MTV Playground will be an ‘art battle’ in association with Vice and DJBroadcast that sees artists go head to head on canvas against the clock. Fighting it out on September 5th to create the best and most original work will be Dutch illustrators Menno Mans and Stefan Glerum and the MC and host for the battle will be Lyrical Tie.
Menno Mans
Menno Mans is an illustrator and filmmaker born in Amsterdam. After studying at the Netherlands Film and Television School, he has worked as an illustrator on flyers, posters and storyboards. In addition, he has worked as a cameraman on several short films and commercials.
Stefan Glerum
Stefan Glerum studied illustration at the Academy St. Joost and now works as a freelance illustrator and designer, based in Amsterdam. He has worked on various commissions ranging from record cover artwork to motion graphics and promotional posters.
Lyrical Tie (MC)
Lyrical Tie (aka Mohamed Ghabri) began writing UK garage lyrics in 1999 and has since gone on to focus on work as a host and MC where his style is a mix of different music genres. He is part of The Parra Soundsystem collective and has hosted many events in the Netherlands over the past couple of years.
Vice Media
Vice is a global youth brand, with a variety of channels, from a magazine, website, events, online TV, a record label and books to DVD and film. Vice has offices in 22 countries and will open more this year in Greece, Portugal, South Africa, Eastern Europe and Argentina.
DJBroadcast
Part of Blueprint Media BV, the DJBroadcast media platform consists of a magazine available for free at 500 spots across the Netherlands, a website with articles and reviews of electronic music and nightlife, video, music streams and podcasts as well as the DJBroadcast.fm web radio station which broadcasts non-mainstream dance music.
Swatch + Art
Swatch has had a strong connection with contemporary art right from its beginnings. Akin to the pop art of modern times, Swatch watches have been inspired by popular culture, and Swatch itself soon became a canvas for world famous artists, musicians and fashion designers.
One of the first major artists to collaborate with Swatch was Keith Haring
Swatch’s playful and creative approach to the arts continues to inspire the most innovative and exciting of today’s – and tomorrow’s – artists and designers. The Swiss fashion watch and jewelry maker has asked four internationally known artists to contribute to the exciting story of Swatch and Art by creating several new watches to enrich the Swatch CreArt Collection. New York City based ‘Urban Primitivist’ Billy The Artist; noted painter, sculptor and writer Ted Scapa; the prolific graphic artist and designer Matthew Langille, and French street painter and rapper Grems have together created a total of twelve new works for ‘the world’s smallest canvas’.
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