Flashforward has been fortunate enough to host some phenomenal artistic collaborations in years past, and this time we’re pleased to present Nando Costa and Geoff Lillemon. They’ll be presenting their latest individual projects as well as their work together.

Nando Costa — hungryfordesign

Costa is an old friend of Flashforward — he’s been a presenter, film festival judge, and also won the festival three times. (Not in the same categories he was judging, fortunately.) Here’s a nice long interview with Costa that includes links to and discussion of many of his recent works. His Flashforward bio:

Costa is Creative Director at Modernista!

Since 1999 Nando has used hungryfordesign to display his personal and client work as a graphic artist. He has worked with all main design mediums, ranging from printed to interactive and animated.

Some of the names in his client list are The Anime Network, MTV, VH1, Nike, Diesel, Country Music Television, CNX, Fine Living Network, Simples Magazine, IDN Publishing, Die-Gestalten Verlag, Dolce & Gabbana, Redley and Fataim.

His fonts, paintings and limited edition prints are for sale at Lard & Joy.

That’s what his bio says anyway, but we don’t see any fonts for sale there… he must have run out, but we’re sure he’ll make more soon.

Geoff Lillemon — Modernista

Lillemon’s work is unlike anything we’ve seen in Flash before, and has an aesthetic coherance that seems in no way limited by the technologies he uses. Follow the links and see for yourself. His bio:

Lillemon is a surrealist working in the net art movement. With collaborator Mike Pelletier, he has produced the performance, L’Orchestre De Oculart, which involves conducting Victorian musicians by hand movement in Max MSP. Lillemon has worked for the National Film Board, BNMI and Studio 7, among others. He currently has a solo show at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City (through June 19.) www.oculart.com

Costa and Lillemon will be co-presenting their latest work, An Oculart-Hungryfordesign Duet…

Geoff Lillemon’s Oculart presents surrealism in the net art movement: shadows cast under magenta umbrellas; harp chords being struck by skull canes swiped across cameras; an orchestra conducted by dismantled Victorian characters along with an enchanted visual tango; L’Orchestre de Oculart, in rehearsal, amongst a hurricane of saxophones and metronomes, under the chattering teeth of the percussionist being dragged into primordial swamp ooze.

Nando Costa, a.k.a. hungryfordesign, has a strong background in motion graphics, but recently he’s (again) shifted mediums and is now working on merging animated video imagery with complex web content. He will present his latest work, both personal and for clients, at the Boston-based agency Modernista! (where Lillemon now works as well) and will focus on the latest project built for the Hummer brand vehicle.

It’s 2 am where we’re writing this blog post, and we have the WRC Rally Cyprus playing on TiVo for background noise; every single commercial break features a different one of Mondernista!’s Hummer ads — and they’re spectacular. We’ll also be eternally grateful for last year’s “Threaten Men in a Whole New Way” episode (yellow H2, blonde woman with no passengers, big city) for introducing us to Nothing is Wrong by FC Kahuna — a song (and album) that’s been floating at the top of the iPod ever since. Thanks guys! See you in New York!

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