LONDON.-The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in collaboration with Beck’s announce the 10 multimedia artists who will be creating unique audio visual installation pieces for the Beck’s Fusions Experience “Pod”, part of the Beck’s Fusions season, a series of events uniting leading musicians and artists across the UK and challenging them to create new and original works of art and performance.

Completely open and free to the public the touring Pod, measuring 26m x 10m, will be unveiled 6 September in Trafalgar Square and host audio-visual installations from 10 varied and talented visual artists from the Turner prize short-listed Jane and Louise Wilson to Beck’s Futures Student Film and Video winner Douglas Fishbone and include new talent such as digital artist Lia and internet based Oliver Laric. From mid-September the Pod will then travel to Dublin, Manchester and Glasgow.

Commissioned by the ICA and curated by Forma each artist will create a unique audio visual installation in response to a rare or unheard of version of songs by top-name bands and vocalists. These exclusive ‘fusions’ will span a wide range of visual disciplines from animation, media art to video sampling. The programme will form an engaging immersive experience presented in a multi-screen 360º environment across 16 screens within the specially conceived Pod.

The works will adopt different presences across the screens; some will be distributed to all screens at once whilst others will use the screens together as one image. This variation will help engage the audience with the programme, providing surprising changes of formats and focus.

The ten confirmed artists for the Pod are:

Jane and Louise Wilson - Twins Jane and Louise Wilson were born in 1967 in Newcastle upon Tyne. For their concurrent BA degree shows, they showed identical bodies of work, and from that point on they have continued to collaborate on photographs and videos. They both attended Goldsmiths College in London, receiving MA degrees in 1992. The twins' early work comprises photographs and films of performances. Their work took a more political turn with Stasi City (1997), a four-screen video projection filmed at the former Stasi police headquarters in East Berlin. Since this project, the Wilsons' work has explored Modernism and its ambitions through specific historical sites.

Douglas Fishbone - Doug Fishbone is an American artist living and working in London. He earned an MA in Fine Art degree at Goldsmiths College in 2003 and was awarded the Beck’s Futures Prize for Student Film and Video in 2004. He is perhaps best known for his project 30,000 Bananas – a huge mountain of ripe bananas installed in the middle of London’s Trafalgar Square and later given away free to the audience - in October 2004. Fishbone’s video and performance work was included in the last year’s British Art Show 6, a national touring exhibition held every five years to feature the best in contemporary British art.

Erik Van Lieshout - With his acute powers of observation Erik van Lieshout analyses day-to-day reality in our current, confusing times. In a dizzying game of political correctness and incorrectness, he provides razor-sharp comments on social-cultural reality and established values. Whereas van Lieshout made his name in the 1990s with his powerful drawings and paintings, over the recent years he has focused on films and installations. He makes poignant films that represent the pulsing rhythm of life today. His protagonists are frequently social “outsiders” - immigrants, mental health patients, political extremists - but the artist always casts himself in the leading role. He presents reality in a raw yet subtle manner.

Graham Dolphin - Graham Dolphin's work appropriates objects and icons of the fashion and music industries, reforming them into assemblages that reveal the obsessions and formulas underwriting the temporal world of mass culture. Text works include: every lyric from the Beatles back catalogue hand written over the iconic cover of the White Album. In another text work, Dolphin takes every word from a single issue of Vogue and scripts them onto a single page, which has the same dimensions of the magazine. Dolphin's drawings compile every 'product' (shoes, cosmetics, etc.) traced over each other onto a single page.

Torsten Laushmann - As an artist, filmmaker and live performer, Torsten Lauschmann celebrates glitches and out-takes, bits in between and images that might be easy to ignore. Born in Bad Soden, Germany (1970), and now based in Glasgow, over the past decade his work has evolved beyond straight photography and film works to investigate the mechanics of digital processes, software creation, experimental editing, approaches to performance and the sculptural potential of video installation. He creates new software for mixing AV freely available to all, holds workshops and screenings on video art practices, and produces sites specifically for other new media practices. Lauschmann studied Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art and Media Art at HfG Karlsruhe (ZKM).

Lia - Lia is an early pioneer of software art and internet art. Since 1995, her work has been concerned with the artistic possibilities of code, digital video, on-line methodology and user-specific application – seemingly different activities that she manages to bind together through her unique approach to creativity and production. In a painterly, conceptual manner, Lia creates live-performances, real time sceneries, projections and installations in public spaces, often working in collaboration with musicians.

Oliver Laric - Media artist Oliver Laric has been responsible for some recent hit videos online; animation works such as 787 Cliparts and Aircondition, and video pieces such as 50 50 and Message The, have been viewed widely through the blogsphere and sites such as Myspace and YouTube. The works can be viewed at oliverlaric.com.

Nick Jordan - Nick Jordan is a Manchester based artist whose practice encompasses video, drawing, painting, events and publishing. With references and motifs that include flytraps, ancient woodlands, weird Americana, modernist architecture and cinema, the work explores our complex relationship with the unruly natural world and our own multifaceted cultural histories.

Clare Langan - Born in Dublin in 1967, Clare Langan studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and with a Fulbright Scholarship, completed a film workshop at New York University in 1992. In 2003 Langan presented A Film Trilogy at MoMA in New York and at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. In 2002 she represented Ireland in the 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil where Too dark for night was exhibited. The trilogy was exhibited together for the first time at The International 2002, Tate Liverpool for The Liverpool Biennial.

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries - Based in Seoul, South Korea, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries is Young-Hae Chang (Korea), and Marc Voge (USA). Their work is composed of text based Flash animations that are highly synchronized to a musical score - typically jazz. These simple yet powerful animation works have been installed in museums and galleries internationally, although the artists’ primary mode of presentation has been online, specifically via their own website www.yhchang.com. Often recalling earlier artistic practices of concrete poetry and experimental cinema, their emotionally expressive voices and dynamic visual qualities succeed in communicating across disciplinary boundaries.

The official launch of Beck's Fusions will take place at the ICA on Wednesday 5 September, 2007 with a one-off performance from Lia followed by a dynamic programme of art and music-based performance, film and installation works from both breaking acts and established artists paving the way f