George Barber’s work on “The Greatest Hits Of Scratch Video” is internationally known and has been featured in many galleries and festivals across the world. The Independent and Sunday Times ran features and the tapes, unusually for video art, once sold in record shops. His two famous works of the period, ‘Absence of Satan’ and ‘Yes Frank No Smoke’ are screened regularly and many other works in his canon are considered seminal in the history of British Video Art. …
Mick Hartney is one of the first generation of video artists in the UK. He is also the first systematic chronicler of the medium, setting out the aesthetic and political territory of video art in influential articles such as: ‘An Incomplete and Highly Contentious Summary of the Early Chronology of Video Art (1959-75)’ (LVA Catalogue, 1984) and ‘After the Small talk; British Video Art in the Eighties’ (Video Positive Catalogue, Liverpool, 1989). Hartney is also author of a number of monographs on video and media artists including Nan Hoover and Jack Goldstein. …
“As Senior Film and Video Officer at the Arts Council of England, David Curtis was in a unique position to overview the practical throughput of a film and video community in the UK. He has initiated various important exhibitions of artists’ works, and encouraged the support of artists moving-image in various contexts and communities.” – J.Hatfield
David Curtis was Senior Research Fellow at the AHRB British Artists’ Film & Video Study Collection, Central Saint Martins, …
John Aubrey Clarendon Latham, artist, born February 23 1921; died January 1 2006
“He proves it is possible to be an enfant terrible forever.”
– Damien Hirst
“John Latham was a international pioneer of systems/process art work and advocate of the artist acting as agent of change (‘incidental person’). He worked with many different mediums, which included the moving image (film and video), introducing the term ‘time based art’. With Barbara Stevini, …
Mike Leggett has been working across the institutions of art, education, cinema and television with media since the mid-60s. In 1969 he was a founding member of the London Film-makers Co-operative workshop and in 1975 the Independent Film-makers Association (UK) and was an active member of the British film and television union (ACTT), and until recently was on the Board of dLux Media Arts (Sydney). He has film and video work in archives and collections in Europe, …
Malcolm Dickson is a curator, writer, organiser and Director of Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow, whose programme includes a diverse range of local, national and international lens-based artists (www.streetlevelphotoworks.org). He has curated numerous projects including ‘Lost and Found: video installations from the 70s and 80s’ as part of Glasgow International 2010; a retrospective of the photography work of John Hoppy Hopkins, and the accompanying talks series ‘In Search of Space’; the visual arts programme of ‘Radiance: Glasgow’s Festival of Light’, …
Adams was born in England in 1953. He received a B.A. from the Newcastle Polytechnic Fine Arts Institute in Newcastle, England. A member of the Basement Group, a Newcastle-based exhibition and production venue for performance, video and film, from 1979 to 1984, he has received awards from the Arts Council of Great Britain, Northern Arts, and the Massachusetts State Council on the Arts and Humanities.
Adams has taught at institutions including Newcastle Polytechnic and Sheffield Polytechnic in England; …
“Tina Keane works with an expanded vision of moving image, making participatory installations, expanded monitor video sculptures, performance and mixed media, and film. Her work is imbued with a feminist aesthetic, the politics of femaleness, gender, and sexuality are inherent, and woven throughout. These ideas have led Keane’s experiment with many different mediums and changing technologies, from painting with pure light, site related neon, sound, performance, to film and video.” – J.Hatfield
“Born 1940. …
Since the late 1960s, Anna Ridley has collaborated with many artists, including works for television, installations, films and videoworks. From 1968-1974 she was involved with the production of the films of David Hall, and those he made together with Tony Sinden. Having worked for BBC Television from 1968, in 1976, she proposed that ‘Arena’ (the long running BBC arts series) devote a programme to the newly emerging videoart scene, and was co-producer to Mark Kidel. …
Born 1950, Isle of Man.
“Atherton has produced a substantial body of diverse work, performance, sculpture, film, and video, installation and site-related. The audience has been central to the becoming of his artworks, from the Brixton Platform sculptures, to his direct address of the invisible demarcation of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture in Coronation Street. Atherton has used the art gallery as ‘theatre’ to question art and the artist ‘performer’ relative to the wider cultural influences of mass entertainment, …
