My second video work this year. After a lost 2019 year through injury, I made a resolution to get to making more of this kind of work, alongside my printmaking. Again, 2020 has not run quite to plan, but here’s a dose of colour and noise for grey times. This was also for the second […]
My video art making took a real hit last year, first with a shoulder injury and then with being without my computer for some time (There will be something soon!). But I went to places and events I’ll probably never have the chance too again. And it was also the chance to do a lot […]
Getting video to stream into Second Life effectively has always been an elusive dream. However, a new experimental approach is being tried at Blue Orange. It will start this Saturday, February 1st at 2pm SL time. Hopefully, everything will go well. I was invited to produce some work for it, and there is a long […]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.Charles Dickens So that was 2019 for me. The worst […]
This year continues its dramatic moments with a trip to Montreal in just a week’s time. I’ll be presenting at the Histoire du Jeu symposium, led by the Université du Québec à Montréal. The title of the symposium is Beyond games: Tinkering and Creative Appropriation of Video Games – something too close to what I […]
And so Furillen returns to Second Life. Built by Serene Footman it is one of the classic spaces, in its orginality, the detail that was added over time and its sparse aesthetics. But it also became a social space – a place that people visited because of the feel of the place, something that is […]
This last month has been so busy, with two film festivals, and with starting a printmaking residency at Edinburgh Printmakers. My last post looked at Supernova in Denver. This one is about the Foresight FilmFestival, which was held at Urania Berlin at the end of September. The video art (machinima) they selected was Future City, […]
It was my 60th birthday as the plane approached Denver. Seeing the sun setting on the skyline of the Rockies is something I will always remember. But that wasn’t the only special thing. I was here for the Supernova Digital Animation Festival a couple of days later. And after the trials of this year, that […]
This has been an incredible year with some major successes, tempered with some severe set-backs. But what matters is that I’m still here, and the successes outweigh the losses! The latest amazing ‘up’ is another selection for an international exhibition, this time for Future City. Following Supernova in Denver, it’s Foresight Filmfestival in Berlin. It […]
Having Repeat Hikari selected for Supernova Digital Animation Festival again thrilled me plenty. But I now know which category, and that is a real extra. I am one of the 15 Artists selected for the ‘prestigious’ 2019 Competition program, chosen from the many submissions collected through FilmFreeway. A clip is in the sampler above, starting […]
