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I am nominating a group of three, one Vietnamese Australian - Visieu Lac, a British born Chinese - Mark Wu and a German - Stefan Woelwer, because of their constant efforts in creating innovative and revolutionalised works. The group being a mixture of different nationalities, cultural backgrounds and diversity represent the global crossing initiative. They are called Kibook and have created revolutionary experimental and borderless interactive works which can be applied to many disciplines.

The nominated team has different backgrounds and work in different circumstances. What these diverse combinations of creative individuals have in common is that they all work within the relatively new field of interactive design or art, and their work is in some way experimental, that they have each, to a greater or lesser degree found a new way of using interactive media, and thereby extended the language of interactivity across boundaries. Interaction art and design is an emerging practice, and the language of interactivity is still forming. It is in this context, adopting an experimental approach to the design process is not so much an indulgence as a necessity. There is an enormous space out there and much of it has not been explored yet. At a very basic level, dealing with this new medium, practitioners- artists, designers, specialists still have to work it out themselves, and that means experimenting with the medium and the audience. This process was a combination of inventing and discovering- inventing in the sense of coming up with new way of communicating with the medium, discovering in the sense that there are still much to explore. In this process – one of real discovery and real invention, it is still the conditions in which much interaction art and design take place today.

As well as providing design and technical solutions for an international client base, Kibook have also developed educational material and have been commissioned to organise and deliver seminars and workshops for various universities and colleges. Kibook were chosen by the ICA to go to Berlin to showcase our work alongside other high profile companies from the UK.