14 May 2012

Multitude...Transmission 2...Works and Artists


Elin Ahlberg

Fine artist from Bristol, working in video and other media to create installations which explore the human experience of digital technology.



Shared Stuff

Single channel video installation, depicting deficit and excess through the flow of assets.
Everyday objects transfer between three spaces.

Digital video.  1 minute. 2010




Elin Ahlberg. Shared stuff. Digital video still. 2010


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Steve Fossey


My arts practice is interdisciplinary in its approach, but rooted in site specificity.  I use elements from video, installation, and performance as supports for my questions.  I attempt to capture and rework observations of everyday life in a process of layering knowledge creatively as it is revealed.  The form of this layering is a palimpsest of moving image, audio and text that asks the viewer to dialogue experiences that foster a shared sense of Site.     



Berlin - The Space Between

This video was shot on a train above ground in Berlin. The experience of being in Berlin contains an inescapable duality of a resonant past and an immediate sense of an unfolding present. Behind the newly converted exteriors of buildings that will become apartments, shops and bars, there are creative ambitions to forge an exciting future that belies the bullet ridden exteriors that neighbour the developments.
The histories of Berlin fluctuate between the hidden and the revealed. As one travels between places on the S-Bahn and U-Bahn, a sense of suspended time occurs as the sound of the voice announcing approaching stations blends with the hum of the electrics. Shapes pass by and views of the city formulate histories in the minds of the traveller that produces a sense of space between points in history. As these sounds and shapes merge, an abstraction of location is caused and colour, perception, time and space become a moving image that allows the traveller to be lost in this space between.

Animation.  10 minutes. 2011




Steve Fossey. Berlin – The Space Between. Digital video still. 2010


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Jonathan Kelham


My work is based in drawing and spans painting, sculpture and film.

Jonathan Kelham was born in1986, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK. Receiving a BTEC Foundation Studies in Fine Art from Hull Collage [2006] & subsequently undertaking a BA [Hons] in Fine Art at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design [2009], being awarded  the Sir Whitworth Wallis Art Prize and Artwise Curators/British Airways Award. In 2010, Jonathan completed a MFA at BIAD, gaining a Distinction for both art practice ‘Leaders Of Men’ and research in the ‘Subjectivity of Utopian Philosophy: within the Realms of the Unreal and Nobson Newtown’. During 2010-2011, Jonathan completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education which included a Research Residency at Meantime Independent Project Space, Cheltenham, UK on Art & Education’. The ongoing Leaders Of Men have been exhibited nationally including: Surface Gallery, Nottingham, Oxford House, London Flatpack Festival, Birmingham & BIAD/The Lombard Method [for The Event 2011], Birmingham, whilst being printed internationally in publications including: Yuck n’ Yum [Dundee, UK], Impulsive Random Platform  [London, UK] and Potroast [Auckland, NZ]. Forthcoming projects include: Leaders Of Men: Village Tour, [2012] Residency, MEANTIME Independent Project Space, Cheltenham


Leaders of Men

The hand drawn and rudimentary Leaders Of Men Animation incorporates the development of the juxtaposition through montage of specific English figures and the awkward, bumbling cartoon characters to develop this notion of the creation of alternative worlds, narratives, dialogues and spaces with a concern for a particular sense of the intentionally constructed portrayal of a romanticised Englishness. Whilst the use of the record by post-punk band Joy Division [An Ideal For Living EP, 1978. from which the work takes its name] references another nostalgic and specific English social and historical period, which provides a potential for creating a ambiguous narrative or contextualisation of the hybrid characters, generating a contradictory dynamism to these lumbering figures.

Animation.  3 minutes. 2010



Jonathan Kelham. Leaders of Men. Animation still. 2010


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Duncan McKellar


My work is based in drawing and spans painting, sculpture and film.

The scale of my work ranges from single line drawings capturing a moment to paintings and sculptures which can take years to complete, acting as physical and mental challenges. These large pieces form a constant from which other work can evolve. I find great satisfaction in both extremes, from the immediate to the obsessive.


48 Hours in Moscow.

A Pantoscope was a pre cinema entertainment device enabling a theatre audience to watch a continuous panoramic painting scroll by on tremendous rollers. For hours audiences would watch as scenes unfolded before their eyes. I created a portable version of this public entertainment device that uses a ten-meter scroll of cartridge paper measuring 28cm in diameter. Like handmade videotape, the paper scroll is wound from spool to spool and a drawing is created on each visible section as it passes by. This device enables a continuous image to be produced. When the drawing is complete, watercolour is added from memory and documentation photographs. 

The finished scroll is then recorded rolling passed a digital video camera. The animation can then be viewed as if riding the journey, continuing the tradition of an informative, entertaining public travelling artwork. 

Animation.  4 minutes. 2010



Duncan McKellar. 48 Hours in Moscow. Animation still. 2010


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Eleanor MacFarlane


Founder of theViewergallery and theProgressiveImage, I am an artist interested in Moving Image and art contraptions, scientific and optical ideas, and their meaningful implications.

I have a first-class BA in Fine Art and am currently undertaking an MA. I am an Artistic Assessor in             Visual Arts for the Arts Council, an arts book reviewer, an Arts Mentor for the Koestler Trust, and an            occasional tutor.


X4

Insects behave in ways which reveal deep parts of human psychology. Motives and anthropomorphisising aside, insects react to forces, they interreact and respond. They have the basic instincts of flight or fight. It is as if humans retain a primitive insect part of the brain, and so although we have a basic understanding of their behaviour, there is an inner conflict as insects are also linked to our repulse mechanism.

Digital video.  5 minutes. 2006




Eleanor MacFarlane. X4. Digital video still. 2006


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