Centred on the artist as avatar, she builds, breaks down, gestures, cries, dissolves. Colour passes over her monochromatic existence. At all times somebody and nobody. An exercise in the minimal. I don’t want to produce perfect art. I want to explore. Predictable, maybe sometimes, because retrying always has some predictability. But not one style. Routine […]
When I do video art, I begin with a pile of visuals that have fascinated me. Then I go and look for music, not with an obvious intention, but with an idea, which grows with the right music. This connects with a long interest in music, spanning contemporary music, back through jazz and blues, folk, […]
It has been a strange time. So little happening for so long, then many things following close to each other. So, as Supernova Digital Animation Festival concludes in Denver on 30 September, I’m looking forward to another, shorter, festival during October. Flames Tear the Soul has been selected for the Osprey Short Film Awards. It […]
Running a bit behind time on this one. But I finished work yesterday with one job, and start another next week – the mundane realities of life getting in the way. This year I had two machinima/ video art pieces selected for Supernova. I’ll start with the second. The Blue and the Jubilant I wrote […]
More things building on previous work! The New Media Film Festival was held in Florida last week, 2-3 June 2021. My work, The Safe Shipment of Small Cargo, had been accepted. I first made the original version of this video art/ machinima in 2017, but it was never quite what I wanted. I was using […]
Selected for another event, this time for my video art/ machinima, Breaking Ice: a 70-Year Story. It’s a work I really like, combining archive film with Second Life material. The style of presentation is sometimes called an audiovisual essay. It explores how our view of the Arctic has both changed and stayed the same over […]
Denver Digerati have been promoting their 2021 Supernova animation festival, with one of its early clips recognised my presence there – for five years now. This included being in the competition in 2019 – first time for a work created out of Second Life. They did a great edit for Instagram, but Instagram don’t like […]
In this small clip of the full version of my machinima/video art, And passengers paid a station agent on Vimeo, the man doing the voice over says; “And passengers paid a station agent who pushed a plunger to unlock a gate to let them in”. Once again, I’m (re)mixing archive and virtual world film, to […]
I’ve ended up reworking five of my video works this year with a re-edit. It wasn’t that I was unhappy with them, but I left them thinking they needed something more, but I couldn’t quite think what. Being on line means you can publish faster, but this does not necessarily mean you have taken shortcuts […]
Here is another kind of art I like: the anonymous, the cobbled together, the hand-me down, the postscript, collaborations between strangers that marry together jubilantly, but don’t quite fit. Writer and art critic Olivia Laing, on how Derek Jarman mixed art, gardening, filmmaking and writing* I recently spotted an exhibition calling for videos featuring blue, […]
