19.03.2009
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern
Bankside, London, SE1

£5.00, £4.00 concessions, booking recommended
7.00pm

Digital animation art and experiment. Curated by Richard Wright, programme coordinated by George Clark.

A selection of defining works in the history of artists’ digital moving image. Rarely seen, they represent a period – the eighties and early nineties - in which computer animation was the focus for the most audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology.

Artists wanted to push the computer as far as it would go, to create visual transformations that defied previous traditions, to blend image and music and text, to apply scientific ideas as new sources of inspiration. It created a strident kind of image that insisted on the fact of its own realisation, fleeting paeans to the artificial. Richard Wright

Richard Wright is an artist and researcher working in the field of digital moving image and interactive techniques. His work has been exhibited and screened at festivals, exhibitions and seminars and broadcast by television channels around the world. He has a PhD in the aesthetics of digital filmmaking and has published nearly forty essays, articles, papers and reviews. Since 2004 he has collaborated with Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji, initially as the artists’ group Mongrel. Their project Tantalum Memorial won the transmediale 09 award.

Programme:
Channel 4 logo (Robinson Lambie-Nairn, UK, 1982, 10”)
Victory Sausage (John Whitney, USA, 1987, 2’37”)
Particle Dreams (Karl Sims, USA, 1988, 2’)
Primordial Dance (Karl Sims, USA, 1991, 3’)
Eggy (Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Japan, 1990, 4’)
Evolution of Form (William Latham, UK, 1990, 3’)
Ex Memorium (Beriou, France, 1992, 5’10”)
The Garden (video version) (Tamas Waliczky, Hungary, 1992, 4’)
These are the Days (John Tonkin, Australia, 1994, 1’30”)
Data Driven: The Story of Franz K (Chris Landreth, Canada, 1993, 3’15”)
Neo Geo: An American Purchase (Peter Callas, Australia, 1989, 9’17”)
A New Life (Simon Biggs, UK, 1989, 4')
Maxwells Demon (James Duesing, US, 1991, 5')
What She Wants (Ruth Lingford, UK, 1994, 4')
Free Society (Paul Garrin, USA, 1988, 4’)
Polly Gone (Shelley Lake, US, 1988, 3' 12")
The City is No Longer Safe (The Butler Brothers, UK, 1994, 2’)
Heliocentrum (Richard Wright and Jason White, UK, 1995, 11’15”)

Please note, this screening contains flashing images.

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