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, […]
Tag: video art
And the festivals keep coming!
Even if art and film festivals are at a distance this year. The Anharmonic Film Festival is a new setup, but very much approaching this from an arts perspective rather than a filmmaking one. So it looks like it’s going to be much more about visual interpretation and ideas than story-lines, actors and technical perfection. […]
Came forth light
At 37Gb of data, two pieces of music, 60 pieces of video equating to 120 edits in 10 minutes and 13 seconds, statistically out of isolation came forth light was one of the most intense works I’ve made. But artistic expression is more than numbers. I’ve written previously about my thoughts on Isolation by CapCat […]
Hello Montreal
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 […]
Foresight and Journeying
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, […]
Future City, after ups and downs
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 […]
Tartaruga in Slow Motion
It took a longer time than usual to think through this latest video, Art Tartaruga, for two reasons. One was a significant actual world injury which restricted my computer use for nearly three months. It is bliss now to get back to doing things both physically and creatively. The other was a more familiar one […]