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
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
you can add your own poems to the works at the links below
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
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
WORKSHOPS >>> KNITTING
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
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