Who's who

Arts, Communities and Environment Research Centre

BA(Hons) Fine Art, MA(RCA) Film & TV

Research interests

Aesthetics, Space, Time And The Aural.
Using contemporary aesthetic theory to address multi-sensory, post-disciplinary art practice; to develop work (film, performance and installation) in relation to location and addressing the experience of what is seen and what is heard; and to continue to explore how (non-generic) noise becomes experienced as music.

Thunder and Lightning
Theoretical research and writings (intended eventual outcome to be a publication/book) addressing the above.

Remote
A series of audio-visual screenings and installations concerned with location (landscape) as source, site and separation.

Moving Air
Installations, events and performances concerned with the physicality of sound and its visual/aural/spatial perception. These works follow on from the work as Automated Noise Ensemble (below).

Automated Noise Ensemble
Ongoing collaboration with Bob Levene (since 2000); installations, performances and recordings. The actions that produce sound and the process of their perception. The work explores noise and music by adapting, re-inventing and constructing musical instruments, devices and structures. automatednoiseensemble.co.uk

Recent outputs since January 2008

• Moving Air installation, + Remote 16mm/audio/DVD Installation (work produced from ON-SPURN Residency Spurn Point, East Yorkshire) The Gallery, Dartington.
• Tony Sinden's Functional Action Re-enactment, Tate Modern (with Alan Baker & David Cunningham) 
• Film Sound + Projections For Lichtblick Kino, Berlin,

Poplar Cinema/solo unprepared ukulele: The Great Orchidaceous Travesty, Resistance Gallery London;
Damo Suzuki's Network (Never ending world tour), Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter;
Drums with Patrick Farmer for Stephen Cornford "Three Piece" Elevator Gallery, London;
Solo Subterfuge, Contact Theatre, Manchester.

Selected earlier outputs

Film Noise Aesthetics Experimental Film & Video Anthology Ed. Jackie Hatfield (John Libbey 2006) IBSN: 0 86196 664 3

Noise & Aesthetics presentations included: Noise & Film (Noise Seminar Series) Photovideo Research Cluster, UCA Maidstone; Feedback: Visual Howl & Reflexive Music (curated film/noise programme) Hull Screen For Hull Film; Film Noise Aesthetics Presentation The Colour Out Of Space Brighton Cinemateque; Time Sound Aesthetics Access Sound File (Kill Your Timid Notions) Dundee Contemporary Art / Research Centre For Visual Art, University of Dundee; Noise Listening & Signification Noisetheorynoise #2 University Of Middlesex (Dep't Modern European Philosophy).

Turntable Strings Distributed manufactured artwork 12" vinyl picture disk (originating from live performance) (Automated Noise Ensemble)

Automated Noise Ensemble artistic partnership with Bob Levene (since 2000, Arts Council England support + fees & commissions), Performances and installations include: Bow, Dundee Contemporary Art, Manchester Cornerhouse; Cymbals, Festival of Computer Art, Maribor, Slovenia; TAUT Sonic Arts Network, Expo 2005, University of Hull (Scarborough) & Globe Gallery North Shields (Newcastle-upon-Tyne); Turntable Strings, (performance) various galleries and clubs, Hull, Burnley, Manchester and 12" picture disc,] distributed ReR Megacorps, Metamkine Grenoble, Wormshop Rotterdam Printed Matter New York.

Incandescent Curatorial Project (Hull Art Lab) - Documentation
Hull Art Lab Co-Director 2004-6 (£99k income Arts Council, Hull City Council, Yorkshire Forward etc.) 12 experimental music/sound/noise events; 9 commissions/residencies; 5 curated exhibitions, 9 performances, 3 film programmes/events. These included: "Long Film for Four projectors" Anthony McCall for Hull International Short Film Festival; "Utterance" text and voice works for Humber Mouth (Hull Literature Festival); "Incandescent" site specific commissions, performances, film programme and symposium for Yorkshire's Illuminate events.

Culture Exchange UK and Kurdistan-Iraq documentation of talks and events in UK & Iraq
ArtRole member/advisor 2005 -7 with Adalet Garmiany (funded Arts Council England, British Council, Kurdish Regional Government (Iraq)) five Iraqi artists toured England; artists visited Erbil & Suleimanya (Kurdish Region Iraq) (including myself, Adalet Garmiany, Richard Wilson, Ann Bean & Clare Charnley (UK) and Susan Meislas & Nancy Buchanan (USA).

Current research / forthcoming outputs

• Live site based sound installations Distant Drums plus Quiet Drums to Loud Speakers. Dartington Estate / The Gallery May & July 2010
• Live Installation Dubplate/Dinner Dance for "Murmur". The Chapman Gallery at the University of Salford 1st - 25th June 2010
• Presentation The Perception of Noise in Avant-Garde Cinema for "Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures": Noise, Affect, Politics International Conference. University of Salford, July 1-3 2010
• Restaging of Tony Sinden's Video Vacuum with David Cunningham. Picture This, Bristol July 2010 tbc.

Supervision of research degrees

I am current supervising one research student.

I am particularly interested in supervising research in the following area(s):

• Post-disciplinary art practice (temporal/spatial/performative/installative/audio-visual)
• Experimental / avant-garde film (history/theory/practice)
• Non-generic noise, experimental music and sound
• Contemporary aesthetics
• Curatorial interdisciplinary practice particularly in relation to film, sound/noise/experimental music

Other matters of research relevance

Development of local networks for artists production and dissemination.