Activity

A selection of projects:

No Place

Director

NO PLACE is a digital film experience that explores real and virtual spaces, commissioned by Brighton’s White Night Festival. The performance was installed within Brighton’s iconic Modernist apartment block Embassy Court during the festival in October 2011. The audience is led through the 11-storey residential building wearing video headsets. Immersive visuals, multi-sensory effects and binaural soundscapes play with the participants’ sense of their own bodies within constructed environments: NO PLACE challenges the architecture of your experience.

Encephalo//Graphic

Animation Director

An animated talk and music performance on how our brain experiences music. A collaboration between neuroscientist Anil Seth, musician Richard Durrant and myself. The animation combines illustrations of brain cells by early 20th century Spanish neuroscientist Ramon y Cajal, with electroencephalographic (EEG) data recorded from the collaborators, when playing and listening to the specially composed music. See extract here and a review.




LabLife

Collaborator

Working with project leader Bruce Gilchrist and a group of emerging artists and scientists, we created an animated film from the drawings of the public as they listened to an interview with Dr Tom Ellis on his research into Synthetic Biology. The 5 minute animation, Public Misunderstandings of Science, was created during the intensive art/science laboratory at Lighthouse Arts, in conjunction with the ArtsCatalyst. The exhibition was covered by Wired Online and I’ll be presenting the work at a panel at the Art and Medicine Symposium 2011.




Born on a Train – Ongoing

Animator

A projection performance with Lecoq-trained performer Julie Bower.  Projecting onto the walls, ceiling and onto the body itself.  What’s going on inside the body?  Where does movement begin?  And where does it end?




Dream Machine

Co-Director / Collaborator

A BANG production commissioned for Brighton’s White Night Festival. A large-scale animation projection event: dreams and visions lit up the Georgian mansion, Marlborough House, and a strange story of sleep experimentation and imagination was told through comics, live performance and animated architecture.




Flickers: Off the Path, Brighton Festival 2010

Animator / Performer

Flickers is a hyper-real exploration of Stanmer Park by artist Rachel Henson.

You set off with an expedition kit, a series of flick books, which act as navigation tools to guide your way. As you flick the pages, animated images of the real environment reveal the path ahead and you follow an animated figure through the countryside.




BANG’s Future Machine, White Night Festival 2009

Co-Director / Collaborator

How do we, as inhabitants of the 21st century, imagine the future?  How do we imagine the post-Starbucks High Street?  Or post high-street urban space?

We asked the members of the Brighton Animator’s Network Group to imagine the future – and animate it.  The result was a large-scale projection event in central Brighton seen by thousands as part of the 2009 White Night festival.

The night saw the Unitarian Church flicker with utopias and dystopias, whilst the public experimented with LEDs and slow shutter speeds at BANG’s light animation workshop in the Pavilion Gardens.




Hole Story, 2007

Writer / Animator

A little animation about asking big questions.  It’s a crying shame that so many girls give up science as soon as they can in the UK.  I wanted to make a playful, Flash animation for an early teen audience about a girl fascinated by CERN, stars and, of course, supermassive black holes.




[Box]   Burton Taylor Studio, 2003

Director / Designer

Audience members enter a forest of illuminated boxes. This piece is devised around three strands: the black box of a plane lost over the Pacific in 2000, a pin hole camera and a particularly ancient box that you can’t help but open. Performers invite you into an intimate promenade experience: the journey, different every night, asks how do we limit chaos? Original score created and performed by Nick Gill.  Images from the final show are on Flickr.