EVENT ARCHIVE
SCREENING - SOCIAL FABRIC @ SKYLINER SUMMER SCHOOL - SAT 18th JUNE, MCR, UK
The superb urban research magazine and tour guide Skyliner (Hayley Flynn) will be screening my film SOCIAL FABRIC as part of a day of activities looking at the architectural history and impact of gentrification in Manchester. The Skyliner Summer School includes two of the most provacative tours , 'Follow the BVuddliea' and 'There Was a Bench Here Once', along with lunch and screening. I'll be there too!
Tickets are just £40 for the day - http://www.theskyliner.org/summer-school
ART IN ARTIFICIAL LIFE >>> SHORT DOCS SCREENING ONLINE - FRI 22ND APRIL 2022 , 2pm
SeMy work features is one of several short documentaries looking at artists working with artifical life, produced by Jenn Karson at the University of Vermont. The films were recorded as part of the ALIFE 2020 conference, which took place online in July 2020. In the short piece on my work, I talk about the project 'Video Culture' ('Chroma Culture'), and speciically the use of optical feedback systems as a way to create generative colour-based 'organisms'.
The films premiere on PROTEUS TV on Twitch , at 2pm on Friday 22nd April - https://www.twitch.tv/proteusteevee/schedule
FILM SCREENING >>> KNITTED FILMS @ FRAMEWORK KNITTERS MUSEUM - SAT 4TH DECEMBER
Several of my films will be screening as part of LIGHT KNIT at the Framework Knitters Museum in Ruddington, Nottingham on Saturday 4th December.
My knitted animations - Knitted Horse Firework, Trouble at the Mill and Tricotone 01 (above) - as well as my documentary Social Fabric - will be part of a programme of moving image works riffing on knitting and textiles, including works by Marie Jones and Chloe Lemay.
There will also be projections of lo-res animations created by participants in my TRICOT ANIMÉ workshop that I ran with FWM earlier this month :)
The event is put together by Glassball Studio
NEW EXHIBITION / INSTALLATION >>>
UNSTABLE INTERMEDIATED FORMS is a new installation of existing works, in the vitrine d'AGENCE TOPO Montreal, CA. The installation combines several of my interactive and generative video works with video pieces by Rob Feulner.
The works are presented as unstable pairs - affecting each other through optical feedback systems and programmed displacement. PORTAL, CHROMA CULTURE, GENERATIVE FICTION and new remix of GROUNDHOG DAY all feature alongside Robs video synthesis experiments.
The installation runs from November 11th - 18th December 2021
ARTICLE >>>
WORKING 5 TO 9 - article on the work life balance in the time of trans-atlantic télé-working.Commissioned as part of PAUSE FOR THOUGHT research project at Lincoln University - READ HERE
EXHIBITION >>>
CHROMA CULTURE (a new installation version of Video Culture) is showing as part of OUTSIDE THE ALGORITHM at Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall, UK - from July 24th - 9th October 2021
NEW INSTALLATION >>>
TRICOT ANIMÉ has been installed in Verdun Montréal as part of the Rue Wellington summer program
'Telepresent Modular Design' - short lecture exploring the design space of the video call and the possibilities for collaborative art.
NEWS
EXHIBITION / SCREENING >>>
TRICOTONE 01 is screening as part of VISION CREEP - the summer 2021 programme by PLEASURE DOME, Toronto - available to rent online from 15th to 22nd July 2021.
TALK / Q&A >>>
VISON CREEP programme closing Q&A - July 22, 2021 at 7:00 pm EST- more info
EXHIBITION / SCREENING >>>
3 of my knitted animations are available NOW to watch now at 6x6project.com, alongside work by Ninna Bohn Pedersen, Chris Paul Daniels, Henry Bradley, Sidsel Christensen and Sidsel Becker.
TALK / Q&A >>>
WOVEN FESTIVAL - 'TEXTILES AS ART' - panel with myself and artist Seiko Kinoshita - June 17, 2021 at 6:00 pm GMT - more info
SHOP >>>
Muybridge Animated Socks - £12 / $20 CAD / $12 USD *** NEW ***
Binary Scarves - £20 + p&p *** NEW STOCK!***
Fair Isle 40 - knitting card game - £10 / $20 CAD + p&p *** canada edition available now ***
10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY / NEW PAGE >>>
26.03.2021 - Short documentary #MARCH26 has finally been added to the PORTOLIO section. It is 10 years to the day that I documentaed protestors as we travelled from Liverpool to take part in the National Protest Against The Cuts.
SCREENING >>>
My knitted animation TRICOTONE 01 is part of the MAX3MIN festival taking place online from 10th - 21st March 2021
EXHIBITION >>>
HOLDEN GALLERY (Manchester, UK) x MICRONEME (Wuhan, China) - Video Culture / Portal is being shown online at some [pint between 22nd January - 5th March 2021 - this online cultural exchange features artists from both countries. more info here.
*** ONLINE PREMIERE ***
INTERIOR: AN EQUISITE CORPSE FILM - Moving Images Artists Journal vol. 3
a new film project created during lockdown, initiated by Saphire Goss - featuring 23 artists contributing micro-movies stitched into a franken-film. My 90-second film is part of Strand A.
NEW EXHIBITION
BARNSLEY BRIGHT NIGHTS >>>
The moon and her screens are coming to Barnsley from 10th Dec 2020 - 10th Jan 2021! The two works, recently developed for Montreal, are going to have their english-language premiere as part of the town's 'Winter Windowland' exhibition.
you can add your own poems to the works at the links below
THE MOON IS... - interactive text-projection installation
SCREEN POEM - 6-screen interactive text-video installation
NEW PROJECTS MONTREAL >>>
LA LUNE EST - interactive text-projection installation, Montreal
POÈME D'ÉCRAN - 5-screen interactive text-video installation, Montreal
CROSSED LINES - audio work with Marilene Gaudet - a podcast for wandering downtown Montreal
INTERVIEWS >>>
EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY - Teaching interactive video during confinement - here
BUNKER TALKS - Zoe Watson (Holden Gallery, MMU) and Sam Meech watch the talk here
SPECIAL SCREENING >>>
BRITISH ANIMATION SHOWCASE FUNDRAISER for KERRY BALDRY - Mon 23rd Nov 7pm UK
A very special event to raise funds for specialist cancer-treatment. Knitted Horse Firework will be screening alongside work by some amazing animators, plus there's even a raffle (£10 - email LondonAnimationClub@gmail.com to enter)
Support Kerry's treatment directly at her Go Fund Me page
***SPECIAL EVENT ***
SAT 17TH OCT - CORRESPONDENCE / CORRESPONDANCE - MCR><MTL
AN ONLINE FILM PROGRAMME curated by Clint Enns & Sam Meech
presented by Vidéographe (MTL) and Holden Gallery (MCR)
24 films, 12 artists from each city - plus filmmaker Q&As
Saturday, October 17, 2020
10:15 am - 7:30pm Montreal time
3:15pm - 00:30pm Manchester time
Vidéographe's YouTube channel - Free streaming
more info and reserve your free ticket here
download the full program >>> (pdf)
cheers to Arts Council England DYCP for making this possible
SCREENING >>>
TROUBLE AT THE MILL - is part of the ONE MINUTE VOL. 10 screening online at VISUAL CONTAINER from 1st August
ALIFE 2020 CONFERENCE MTL >>>
VIDEO CULTURE wins the ALIFE Inspired Art Award.
SCREENING >>>
SOCIAL FABRIC - is part of the SMALL AXE screening programme as part of TOLPUDDLE RADICAL FILM FEST - 8pm, Sunday 19th July, online
PRINT N PLAY GAME >>>
'FAIR ISLE 40' - a new card game inspired by knitting-patterns. Created for Manchester Game Studies Network Game Jam - download and play all the submissions here.
PARTICIPATE >>>
Log your home-working hours to be knitted as part of Punchcard Economy - read more
NEW PAGES >>>
CRUSADER MILL - works about GENTRIFICATION and TEXTILES in Manchester. SEE MORE
SCREENING FILM - cinema event website archive SEE MORE
WORKSHOPS >>>
11th April 2020 POSTPONED - ANALOGUE GLITCH VIDEO workshop with Rob Feulner @ VIDÉOGRAPHE, Montreal, CA
SCREENINGS >>>
2nd February 2020 (02.02.2020) - watch DAY HOG GROUND online now!
SCREENINGS >>>
27th November - 1st December 2019 - TROUBLE AT THE MILL @ ANILOGUE International Animation Festival, Budapest, Hungary
7th December 2019 - KNITTED HORSE FIREWORK @ ESMoA Video Art Festival - California, US
EXHIBITION >>>
21st March - 28th June 2020 - Punchcard Economy shows in Daily Night Shift @ Kunsthal EXTRA CITY - Antwerp, Belgium
17th October 2019 - 29th March 2020 - Craftercise shows in RIDE YOUR PONY #3 @ Warrington Museum - Warrington, UK
3rd October - 3rd November 2019 - Stick to Knitting and Fairisle Markers for MTL both show in Banner Culture @ British Textile Biennial - Pendle, Lancashire, UK
31st October 2019 - 23rd Feb 2020 - Punchcard Economy shows in 24/7 @ Somerset House - London, UK
LUMEN PRIZE >>>
PORTALS has been ***shortlisted*** for the 2019 Lumen Prize in the 3d / Interactive category!
SCREENINGS >>>
Sat 12th October 2019 - 6:30pm - ONE SQUARE MILE @ Social Surfaces Festival - Manchester, UK
Fri 25th October 2019 - 6:00pm - ONE SQUARE MILE @ COVENTRY BIENNIAL - Phoenix City Screenings - Coventry, UK
July 2019 - CECI N'EST PAS UN SPECTACLE - THE SCREENING ROOM – online, NL
COLLECTION >>>
MMU Special Collections buys KNITTED HORSE FIREWORK film and knitted film reel for their MATERIAL INNOVATIONS COLLECTION. Read the article here.
WORKSHOPS >>>
Sat 7th September - Strange Loops video art workshop - CHANCE AND CONTROL - Chester Visual Arts, CH1 2EF - £ FREE / DROP IN
INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE >>>
Fri 9th August 2019 (all day) PORTALS at Haydock Library, St Helens, UK
WORKSHOPS >>> KNITTING
Sat 17th August - Interactive Video Workshop - Macclesfield Library - £ FREE !!!! - SOLD OUT
Sat 15th June 2019 - Hazuki Knit with James Medd / Gemma Potter - part of WOVEN - Queensgate Marke, Huddersfield, UK
WORKSHOPS >>> INTERACTIVE VIDEO
Fri 14th June 2019 - LJMU John Lennon Art & Design building, Liverpool - Tickets £15
Fri 21st June 2019 - Manchester School of Art - Tickets £15
INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE >>>
Tues 11th June 2019 (7pm) BILL & TED 30 REMIX with Raz Ullah at TEST CARD, Hilary Step, Manchester, UK
Fri 12th July 2019 (from 6pm) PORTALS at Rogue Studios, Manchester, UK
Thur 25th July 2019 (all day) PORTALS at Macclesfield Library, Macclesfield, UK
EXHIBITION >>> Sat 3 November 2018 - Sun 9 June 2019 - ONE SQUARE MILE showing as part of 'Acquired: a century of collecting' at Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, UK
SCREENING >>> Sun 26th May 2019 (7:30pm) - ONE SQUARE MILE screening as part of 'Surveyed Places' at MINI INDI FILM FEST Braziers Park, Oxford, UK
INSTALLATION / PERFORMANCE >>> PORTALS - Fri 17th May - Liverpool Light Night - Liverpool Central Library - Picton Reading Rooms
SCREENING >>> May 8th 2019 - CRAFTS COUNCIL REAL TO REAL FILM FEST – Picture House Central, London, UK - WORLD PREMIERE
WORKSHOP >>> 16th March 2019 – NEW TRICKS – PROJECTION MAPPING WORKSHOP at SITE Gallery, Sheffield, UK
SCREENING >>> 1st March 2019 (1pm) CECI N’EST PAS UN SPECTACLE screens at BEST OF REAL TO REEL FILM FEST – PREVIEW, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
EXHIBITION >>> 17th January 2019 - FEEDBACK / FORM @ INTERRUPTIONS HOLDEN Gallery, Manchester, UK