Meet our Post-digital Workshop Artists
Simon Faithfull is a contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited extensively around the world. His work has been described as an attempt to understand and explore the planet as a sculptural object - to test its limits and report back from its extremities, to connect and collapse space and to understand how the far and mysterious relate to the everyday and mundane.
Recent projects include a video-work recording the journey of a domestic chair as it is carried to the edge of space (commissioned by Arts Catalyst), a drawing project sending back live digital-drawings from a two month journey to Antarctica (an Arts Council International Fellowship with British Antarctic Survey) and an animated film developed from drawings made on a mundane walk out of London along the A13 trunk road (a Channel 4 TV commission with Arts Council England). Recent exhibitions have included the solo shows at the British Film Institute (London), Harris Museum (Preston), Galerie Polaris (Paris), Parker’s Box (New York), Stills (Edinburgh) and Cell (London).
Faithfull was born in Oxfordshire, UK, studied at Central St Martins and then Reading University. His practice takes a variety of forms - ranging from video, to digital drawing, installation work and writing. Faithfull is also a lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London.
http://limbo.simonfaithfull.org
Kate Genevieve is a director and artist who works with moving image, sound and the human body to create immersive environments for audiences that explore the interaction between embodiment and perception.
Kate founded Chroma Collective in 2010 – a group of artists, animators and programmers specialising in interdisciplinary and interactive work – and directs animation performances and large-scale projections. Her practice based research is around virtual environments, immersive visuals and presence research. Her 2011 art commissions build on her collaboration with neuroscientists, most recently the Encephalo//Graphic performance (2010) for the Art of Life Science Festival and NOPLACE at Embassy Court (2011).
She curates events for the BANG network, as well as conceiving and co-directing large scale collaborations such as Dream Machine (2010) and Future Machine (2011) for the White Night festival.
Kate has a background in performance and digital production. Over the last decade she has worked as an animator, performer and director on digital installations and interactive performances for national and international arts festivals. On moving to Brighton she joined digital production company Plug-in Media and was one of the team to receive a BAFTA in 2009 for Big and Small Online and a BAFTA in 2010 for Zingzillas Interactive.
http://kategenevieve.wordpress.com
latest project: http://noplace1.wordpress.com/
http://vimeo.com/kategenevieve
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva’s practice encompasses of national and international site-specific commissions, fellowships and residences. She has developed a respected and high-quality reputation for producing ambitious and complex works in sculpture and installation. Since graduating from Royal College of Art in 1998, she has exhibited internationally including the 51st Venice Biennale ; Swiss Embassy and World Bank, Macedonia; L’H du Siege, France; Kilmainham Gaol Museum, Dublin. She has taken part in European residency programmes including Gloucester Cathedral, ArtSway, Irish Museum of Modern Art and Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship. Public art commissions include ‘Transpire’, St Bede’s College, Bristol; ‘We Are Shadows’, Unit2, London; ‘Life Cycle’, Bristol; ‘Re|Sort’, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton; Ambush’, The New Forest. She has received many national and international awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, she is an AIR Council member and representative for South East England.
http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/become-a-member/artist-member/elpida-hadzi-vasileva/1139
http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=11268
http://www.artsway.org.uk/programme/artsway-associates/visit-the-artsway-associates/elpida-hadzi-vasileva/
LuckyPDF formed in 2008 as a project to develop new ways of funding, making and displaying art. Now working with a set core of four artists (John Hill, Oliver Hogan, James Early and Yuri Pattison) LuckyPDF work with an ever-shifting network of partners and collaborators to realise ambitious projects that combine live events with online video and broadcasts, commissioning and showcasing new performance and video works while intervening in and subverting the structures, institutions and economies of image production and distribution.
They were commissioned to produce four days of live online television at last year’s Frieze Art Fair and participated in the third Athens Biennial. In 2012 they will take part in Fierce Festival, Birmingham and Next Wave Festival, Melbourne.
Clare Strand is a British Photographic Artist. Her constant passion is the appeal of Utilitarian Photography where aesthetic issues are secondary to specific formulations and generic expectations. Research stimulates much of this dynamic. The hinterland to her image making is provided by a childhood upbringing where a family life in a suburban cul-de-sac was confounded by true crime magazines, ominous supernatural events, Paul Daniels on Sunday evenings, a father obsessed by exactitude and a flasher who lived in the house opposite.
Recent (2011) solo and group shows include, Signs of a Struggle, Photography in the wake of Postmodernism Victoria and Albert Museum, London ;Falling Up the Gravity of Art, The Courtauld, London; Sleight, Brancolini Grimadli, London and The Wonders of the Invisible World, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
Clare Strand’s first monograph published by Steidl and Partners (2009) was launched with her first major show, Clare Strand Fotografie Und Video at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany.
Strands work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Arts Council, The British Council, The National Collection, The New York Library and private collections. She is represented by Brancolini Grimadli London.
http://www.brancolinigrimaldi.com/
