Impakt Channel – new works online
31.01.11
Impakt Channel is currently hosting eight works selected from Impakt Festival 2010 programme, including works by Sander Breure and Witte Van Hulzen, Lopun Alkuja and Jani Ruscica, Broersen & Lucacs, Erkka nissinen and Jasper Elings. Also updated to the website is an interesting selection of works from the Impakt Festival 2009 to be watched. Two videos by Impakt’s artist in residence, French movie Maker Jean-Charles Hue are also on ...
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Arts Council England axes Animate Projects
28.01.11
We are very sorry to announce that Animate is likely to close down at the end of March 2011, following Arts Council England’s decision not to fund our 2011 programme. Animate began in 1990 as an Arts Council/Channel 4 scheme and has been supported by the Arts Council England continuously for 21 years. We set up Animate Projects four years ago, following the sudden death of Dick ...
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Moving Portraits at Del La Warr Pavillion

26.01.11
Moving Portraits explores the past sixty years of portraits in moving image by significant international artists practising in the field of film and video technology. By using this technology the artist has expanded the language and notion of the portrait genre. The works in this exhibition are all experimental of their time and include well-known sitters and subjects as well as more personal portraits of ...
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Len Lye at Ikon by Edwin Rostron

26.01.11
Len Lye - Free Radicals, 1958 The Body Electric runs until 13th February 2011 at Ikon. “Some nights I’d have a dream that my five senses were taken out of my skull, rinsed in a country stream, then stretched out to dry so that when I woke up they’d be as crisp as viola strings. But if they were put back wrongly I’d wake up seeing with ...
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Kiron Hussain

21.01.11
Slick Horsing, Kiron Hussain We caught up with Kiron Hussain – winner of the Animate Projects Award for Best Experimental Film at this year’s London Short Film Festival – seeking enlightenment on the inspiration behind Slick Horsing… You’re currently studying Fine Art at Newcastle – how would you describe your art practice? Have you made any other films during your time there or going by your artreview ...
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A structure for possible films by Ajay RS Hothi

20.01.11
Scherzo, Joe Diebes Ryan Tre-who?  Oh, him?  He’s so oh-ten and that was, like, a decade ago or whatever? I think we can take it as read that we are now living in the future that we (may or may not have) imagined when we were kids. What follows next will be probably be described as some kind of proto-future, obviously to be followed by a post-present ...
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David Jacques

13.01.11
North Canada - English Electric, David Jacques We talked to David Jacques, nominated for the Northern Art Prize,  about his film North Canada – English Electric. An exhibition of work by the shortlisted artists (Alec Finlay, Lubaina Himid, David Jacques and Haroon Mirza) runs at Leeds Art Gallery until 6 February 2011. The Prize is announced on 20 January. Congratulations on being nominated for Northern Art Prize – ...
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