Tim Fisher, cofounder of the design and filmmaking collective MK12, will give an artist\u2019s talk at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 24 in Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall on the campus of Missouri Western State University. The talk is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
Fisher cofounded MK12 in 2000 in Kansas City, Missouri. The collective has evolved into a full-service creative studio, adapting their unique brand of filmmaking to title sequence design, game cinematics and promotion, music videos and network and advertising projects, along with original content.<\/p>\n
Their work has included title sequence design and in-film effects for feature films like \u201cQuantum of Solace,\u201d \u201cThe Kite Runner,\u201d \u201cStranger than Fiction,\u201d \u201cThe Internet\u2019s Own Boy\u201d and \u201cParticle Fever.\u201d<\/p>\n A screen capture from the opening of “Stranger Than Fiction” with graphics by MK12.\n
MK12\u2019s experimental and short film catalog has been featured in many international film festivals and exhibitions, including Sundance, South by Southwest, the Sao Paulo Biennial, the Zurich Design Museum, the Walker Arts Center, Art Basel and Prix Ars Electronica, among others. Their film \u201cOverload,\u201d a collaboration with New York-based painter Brian Alfred, was inducted into the Guggenheim\u2019s permanent collection.<\/p>\n
Their music video for Common\u2019s single \u201cGo\u201d earned an MTV Video Music Award nomination for \u201cBest Hip Hop Video\u201d in 2005, and their collaborative video for the Jack White and Alicia Keys single \u201cAnother Way to Die\u201d earned a Grammy nomination for \u201cBest Short Form Music Video\u201d in 2009.<\/p>\n
The artist\u2019s talk is funded by the Missouri Western State University Foundation and sponsored by the Department of Art.<\/p>\n
Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em>www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tim Fisher, cofounder of the design and filmmaking collective MK12, will give an artist\u2019s talk at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 24 in Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall on the campus of Missouri Western State University. The talk is free and open to the public. Fisher cofounded MK12 in 2000 in Kansas City, Missouri. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[135,281,565],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/7965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}