Further Known Screenings:
London Video Arts
Chelsea School of Art
Royal College of Art
Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
Kunst Akademie Dusseldorf
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Memory 1 & 2
Static Acceleration
“Static Acceleration was first made in a 17 minute version on a half-inch open reel edit deck. A relatively new medium for artists at that time, video was still in the process of being explored for its possibilities and limitations. This is one of a series of works I made in the 1970’s examining specific technical properties while also relating them to expressive or emotive content. While Static Acceleration has an emotive element that can only come from a viewer watching the tape, …
Pieces I Never Did
By 1979 when Pieces I Never Did was made, colour cameras, U-matic cassettes and a wider range of colour monitors were available. Consequently I was able to visit many performance, film, video, installation and sculpture ideas in the work.
Still from Pieces I never did
Talking to camera, I described ideas that had never got beyond a note in a sketchbook. Paradoxically, I was able to resurrect on video these items of personal performance that had been edged out by the structuralism of early video art, …
Urch, Marion
Marion Urch is an award-winning artist and writer. She studied at Brighton Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art in London. She was part of the second wave of British video art, gaining a significant international reputation for her work in single screen video, video installation and tape/slide. In 1987 she won first prize at Il Bienal de Video Mamm, Columbia for Out of the Ashes, which was also broadcast on TV Finland: in 1989 her installation Distant Drums was showcased at Tate Liverpool. …
Ernest Edmonds
Ernest Edmonds was born in London and studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Leicester University. He has a PhD in logic from Nottingham University, is a Fellow of the British Comuter Society and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is a practicing artist.
His art is in the constructivist tradition and he first used computers in his art practice in 1968. He first showed an interactive work with Stroud Cornock in 1970. …
Lafontaine, Marie-Jo
Marie-Jo Lafontaine (born November 17, 1950) is a sculptor and video artist from Antwerp (Anvers), Belgium. She now lives and works as a Professor of Media Arts at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Brussels, Belgium. Lafontaine studied from 1975 to 1979 at l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture et des arts visuels.
Lafontaine has worked in many media including “tapestries” in which she weaves black-dyed wool into linear patterns; sculptural work using plaster, …
Rowland, Chris
Chris Rowland is an academic researcher with roots in 3D Animation, Design and Fine Art. His research, teaching and professional practice are informed by twenty five years’ experience working in the creative industries. This includes leading roles in the development and management of start-up companies involved in 3D animation and visualisation. He leads the 3D Visualisation Research Lab (3DVisLab) at DJCAD where projects are primarily focussed on investigating novel applications of 3D visualisation methodologies to solve real world problems. …
Cahen, Robert
Recognized as one of France’s foremost video artists, Robert Cahen has since 1972 produced a distinguished body of work for cinema and television. In Cahen’s uniquely nuanced world, fiction and document alike are presented as metaphoric voyages of the imaginary, exquisite reveries that describe passages of time, place, memory and perception. Genres such as narrative and performance are expanded and transformed as he explores visual, aural and temporal transformations of represented reality.
From the formal elegance of Cartes postales vidéo (Video Postcards) (1984-86) to the intricate musical and visual transitions of Boulez-Répons (1985), …
Mach, David
David Mach was born in Methil, Fife, in 1956. He studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee from 1974–79, and at the Royal College of Art, London from 1979–82. Mach is heavily influenced by Pop Art and consumerism, and employs a sense of drama, performance and unexpectedness in his work. Mach’s practice also explores materiality on a grand scale, by bringing multiples of mass–produced objects, most notably magazines, newspapers and car tyres, together in large–scale installations. …
MacLennan, Alistair
Alastair MacLennan (born 1943 in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland) is one of Britain’s major practitioners of live art. Since 1975, he has been based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was a founder member of Belfast’s Art and Research Exchange. He is a member of the performance art collective Black Market International (BMI).
He studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design of the University of Dundee in 1960-65. 1966-68 he received his Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, …