British film and video artists online
February 27th, 2004
"It is dangerous to step out of line - and lethal not too"
Lis Rhodes, first featured artist on LUXONLINE
The LUX announces the launch of LUXONLINE - the UK's first comprehensive online resource for seeing, exploring and learning about British moving image artists, their films, videos, installations and exhibitions.
LUXONLINE has been created as an extension of the LUX, a centre set up in 2002 to protect and make available its unique collection of artists' film and video art. "With LUXONLINE we are responding to a growing interest in moving image art by providing an easy to use resource for finding out about contemporary arts practise in the UK," says Benjamin Cook, Director, LUX. "And this is just the beginning. LUXONLINE is to be a constantly expanding resource as more artists are added making it the place for information on film and the moving image."
LUXONLINE, Lottery-funded through the New Opportunities Fund, helps develop an appreciation of both cinema and the visual arts, as well as helping to create new creative literacies and experiences. The site also provides a stimulating environment for users to creatively engage with its unique content seeking to stretch expectations and deepen interpretative skills in terms of visual culture.
Each month LUXONLINE will feature a new artist. The first, LIS RHODES, was Arts Advisor to the Greater London Council 1982-85 and is today part-time lecturer at the Slade School of Art, London. Through LUXONLINE users can learn about Lis, understand her philosophy and find out about her work: access short video clips and stills from her films, and read specially commissioned essays.
LUXONLINE is an easy to use one-stop shop for film students, filmmakers, moving image artists - in short anyone interested in the moving image as an art form. The site offers practical advice on how to make films on different formats, artists' biographies and video clips, it gives virtual tours of artists' material by curators, writers and artists, as well as exploring the work defined by themes such as body image, thereby helping to raise awareness of the rich diversity of moving image art in Britain.
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LUXONLINE: some artists
Sarah Pucill
"LUXONLINE fills a very important gap by providing research material and actual film clips from the film and video artists that grew up around the artist networks of the London Filmmakers Co-op and London Video Arts. LUXONLINE provides the user unique access and exposure to pioneering film and video artists whose work, up until now, has gone largely underground."
Sarah Pucill is a Senior Lecturer of the Fine Art Mixed Media BA at University of Westminster. She studied Creative Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University (BA 1987) and Fine Art-Media at the Slade School of Art in London (Postgraduate Diploma 1990). She then did an MA in Visual Theory at the University of East London (1997). Her photographic work and films have been shown internationally in museums, film festivals and galleries. She has been nominated for awards at the Norwich Women's Film Festival for Back Comb and Milk and Glass. Her film You Be Mother won the experimental award at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany, 1991) and the innovation award at the Atlanta Short Film Festival (USA, 1995). Sarah's film Stages of Mourning will be premiered at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2004, on 29 March at 20.40pm and 1st April at 18.30 at the NFT. Sarah's films: Backcomb UK, Mirrored Measure Australia, and You be Mother UK are to be televised later on in the year.
Guy Sherwin
"The new LUXONLINE website enables people anywhere in the world to catch a unique glimpse and gain an insight into artists' film work being made in England."
Guy Sherwin (b.1948) studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the 1960s. His subsequent film works, often including live elements and serial forms, are characterised by an enduring concern with light and time as the fundamentals of cinema. Recent work includes gallery installations for several looped projectors. Sherwin taught printing and processing at the London Filmmaker's Co-op (now LUX) during the mid-70s. His films have been extensively exhibited in England and abroad, as part of 'Film as Film' Hayward Gallery 1979, 'Live in Your Head' Whitechapel Gallery 2000, 'Shoot Shoot Shoot' Tate Modern 2002, and 'A Century of Artists' Film & Video' Tate Britain 2003/4. Solo shows include San Francisco Cinematheque, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Image Forum Tokyo, and LUX London. Sherwin teaches at Middlesex University, the University of Wolverhampton and periodically at the San Francisco Art Institute. He lives in London.
On Sunday 18th April at 2.00pm at the Tate Britain, Guy's film Messages (1981-3), will be screened with Jean Pierre Gorin's Poto & Cabengo in a programme on Childhood and Language curated by LUX. Messages is also touring UK venues in the programme
Film Poems 4 Messages curated by Peter Todd (see LUX website for details). At The Academy 1974 is part of the touring programme Shoot Shoot Shoot curated by Mark Webber and screening at the Deste Foundation Athens from 17-26 March, and at the Image Forum Tokyo (Hillside Gallery) 24 April to 5 May, and the Goethe Institute Kyoto Japan 11-16 May.
Animal Studies (2001-03) will be screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival 6-21 April 2004. Night Train (1979/2004) will be screened at the New York Underground Film Festival in October 2004 and 16 films from the Short Film Series 1975-2004 are to be released on VHS video by Editions Revoir (Paris) in November 2004.
Ian Bourn
Ian was born in London 1953. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London, 1976-79, and in 1982-83 was awarded a Video Fellowship by the Arts Council of Great Britain and Sheffield City Polytechnic. He is a founder member and co-instigator of HOUSEWATCH (est. 1985): a group of mixed-media artists who collaborate, individually or collectively, to produce environmental site-specific performance events; initially termed 'Cinematic Architecture for the Pedestrian'. Ian is the Chief Researcher, Developer and Coordinator of HOUSEWATCH projects: "Night Assembly" in Edinburgh 1987 (Scottish Arts Council funded), "Housewatch in Japan" 1991 (International Contemporary Music Forum of Kyoto, British Council funded), "The Conservatory Project" 1994 (Arts Council R&D Award).
LUXONLINE: the features
Home
• Featured artist of the month
• Featured virtual tour of art exhibitions by artists, curators and writers
• Featured theme: i.e. Body image - films, images and contextualised text
• Featured essay: i.e. Michael O' Pray on John Smith
Themes
The themes section includes a selection of stills and moving images grouped under different subject headings. Films and videos by LUXONLINE artists are linked by their shared use of a particular aesthetic, production process, idea or belief. For example abstractions, installations, body politic, documentary and film as film.
Artists
An A-Z of different artists who work with film and video. All the artists featured have made significant contributions to the development of film and video art.
Works
Browse all the films and videos in the LUXONLINE database. Read reviews and descriptions about all the films and videos online. Read interviews with the artists about their film and videos and working production drawings. See posters and programmes for screenings and exhibitions.
History
Easy to access information on the history of British film and video art by simply clicking on a decade. On the left hand side of the screen you will find more detailed information about the event and links to related films, videos and additional features.
Education
The education section of LUXONLINE offers a range of very practical routes to finding out more about British film and video art. The learning tours give more detailed information about technical and historical aspects of film and video art. These include How to develop 16mm film, How to shoot Super 8, and a Guide to Short Film Festivals.
Tours
Curators, artists, and writers have made virtual tours especially for LUXONLINE offering a very personal, historic and imaginative route into the material.
Notes for editors
• LUXONLINE: Browse the site and to see the videos simply register free of charge at http·luxonline·org·uk
• The LUX is a non-profit company set up to promote, preserve and make available its vast collection of artists' film and video - currently the largest in Europe. The former London Filmmakers' Co-op, London Electronic Arts, and London Video Arts merged to become today's LUX Centre. To date the LUX catalogue includes in excess of 4,000 titles from the 1920s to the present day. Much of the collection is unique and not represented in other national or international collections.
• The New Opportunities Fund and www·EnrichUK·net
LUX online can be accessed through www·EnrichUK·net - a gateway to a collection of websites supported with National Lottery money by the New Opportunities Fund. Their contents range across the very best in culture, history, art, science, and social and economic development of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales and make a major contribution to lifelong learning.
The New Opportunities Fund is the biggest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, providing Lottery funding for health, education and environment projects across the UK, with a particular focus on improving quality of life, particularly in disadvantaged communities. To date the New Opportunities Fund has committed over £2 billion in funding to schemes across the UK.
• The LUX is in a consortium with screenonline, the bfi National Film and Television Archive online, which can be accessed via LUXONLINE. screenonline holds more than 1,000 pages of information and more than 100 hours of streamed moving image material. There is currently material from more than 300 films and television programmes on the site and this resource is growing constantly. Schools, colleges and libraries can register free of charge at www·screenonline·org·uk/register
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