News Released: June 15, 2009
New York, New York

Click 3X Launches New Website Featuring Proprietary Video Engine



Click 3X (www.click3x.com) is pleased to announce the launch of their completely re-faced and programmed website created by sister brand ClickFire Media (CFM). The site features a revolutionary new video display that is dynamic, intuitive, fun, and fast. The site is run on CFM's media video engine platform, a brand-new technology that will recast the way people view online video content.
Unlike current systems, which rely on endless up-and-down scrolls and sliding bars to find and display videos, producing unreliable images that can change drastically from one computer to the next, CFM's new web engine features an intuitive interface with a smart content management system that displays high-quality videos. The new system is powerful enough for CFM will soon begin productizing it and selling implementations.

"Traditional search engines worked fine for short playlists, but they were less than engaging and often required moving from a video selection back to the actual player. Different screen sizes exacerbated the problems," noted Click 3X President/Partner Peter Corbett. "Since the existing technology was generally inadequate, we just rebuilt the entire thing, coming up with a product with wide potential applications. The end result really speaks to the skills of our team."

The totally rebuilt site is the result of months of coding. The new application features:
* The application is dynamically re-sizable - the video thumbnails reassemble depending on how you size your browser window
* Each video is a full 700 pixels across and loads and plays without downloading on bandwidth of 1.5 megabits or more
* Intuitive controls embedded into each video allow for full-screen viewing
* The video player position is dynamic and assembles itself right where the thumbnail is located
* Each video can be "deep-linked" to access a unique URL
* A user-friendly content management system can add categories and change videos and descriptions

About Click 3X:
New York-based Click 3X produces cutting-edge visual solutions for commercials, feature films, television, music videos, and broadcast clients around the globe. Founded in 1993, Click 3X has become one of the preeminent providers of innovative media content, housed in an environment led by artists, yet supported by one of the most technologically advanced digital studios in the industry. With award-winning design, powerful visual effects, and a visionary animation team, Click 3X has worked on array of diverse highly-recognizable projects, including a series of films from academy-award winning directors like Jonathan Demme and Davis Guggenheim, a recent multimedia package for eight HD Time Warner spots, My Home 2.0, a five episode reality TV series for Verizon Fios, and a long line of recent commercials for major brands such as Sharp, Ford, and Goodyear.
In addition to Click 3X's commercial and film expertise, their interactive design studio, ClickFire Media, specializes in multi-platform, media-rich interactive campaigns. CFM partners with agencies and entertainment industry clients in the conceptualization, design, and development of immersive branded experiences. Through insight and innovation, CFM combines the latest interactive technologies with the best design, video, animation, and live action skills from Click 3X to deliver integrated solutions in the ever-developing media landscape. Haunt is a division that specializes in cutting-edge motion design for music videos, virals, and installations, and has worked with many of the industry's top music talent and directors. Click 3X Entertainment focuses on broadcast branding and design, rounding out the company's expertise for every screen.

CLICK 3X. CLICKFIRE MEDIA. HAUNT. THE FUTURE.

About CFM:
ClickFire Media is an interactive design studio specializing in multi-platform, media-rich creative campaigns. CFM partners with agencies and entertainment industry clients in the conceptualization, design and development of fully-integrated, consistently branded experiences. Through insight and innovation, CFM combines that latest interactive technologies with the best design, video, animation and live action skills from Click 3X to deliver integrated solutions in the ever-developing media landscape.

www.click3x.com

News Released: June 4, 2009
Edem Beach, Piraeus Athens

GOING PUBLIC ’08. PORT CITY SAFARI
Bristol, Rotterdam, Tanger, Marseille, Palermo, Athens



Presentation of the international project GOING PUBLIC´08. Port City Safari.

The book will be launched world wide during the 2° Athens Biennial on TUESDAY 16th of June. Flisvos Venue – Edem Beach, Pireus Athens.

Round table with: Claudia Zanfi (curator); Zafos Xagoraris (artist); Aristide Antonas (architect), Elipda Rikou (sociologist), Katerina Koskina (director Costopoulos Foundation).

PortCitySafari, sixth edition of the Going Public project, takes us on a journey through some of the most important European and Mediterranean port cities. Setting off in Bristol, first stop the exhibition Port City. On Mobility and Exchange, then on the site-specific projects created for the 10°Istanbul and 1°Athens Biennials, PortCitySafari investigates the cities of Rotterdam, Tangier, Palermo, Marseille and Liverpool, which participates through researches, exhibitions and workshops organised by arts centres and universities. The project highlights various investigations into the subjects of mobility, commerce, productivity, contemporary slavery of port cities, all documented in this new volume.

To mark the end of the tour, a bilingual 240 pages colour volume has been published by Silvana Editoriale (Milano), recounting a journey through Art and port cities carried out by about 40 artists and theorists. The book documents the discussion phases, the choice of the artists, the commissions and the projects produced. It documents a reflection of such crucial themes as migration, the free market, the transformations of the port areas and their relationship with the city and its inhabitants.

This is a rare publication investigating various aspects of port cities through the eyes of artists as a method of critical research and discussion on contemporary art.

The project received the Price Cultura 2007: It has been supported by The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, Fondazione Cassa Risparmio Modena, Arnolfini, Bristol. Cultural Office Europe.

Among the prestigious contributors to name a few, Tom Trevor (Director, Arnolfini of Bristol); Paul Domela (Director, Liverpool Biennial); Katerina Koskina (Director, Costopoulos Foundation of Athens); Emiliano Gandolfi (Curator of Venice Architecture Biennial); Jean Fisher (Professor, Middlesex University London); Yto Barrada (Artist, Tangier), Zineb Sedia (Artist, Algiers), Meschac Gaba (artist), many others.

More information can be found at:

GOING PUBLIC ’08. PORT CITY SAFARI
ATHENS BIENNIAL

Tuesday 16th June 2009, 12 am

Flisvos Venue – Edem Beach, Pireus Athens

www.amaze.it
www.silvanaeditoriale.it
www.athensbiennial.org