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ERNEST EDMONDS - 'SHAPING FORM' INSTALLATION
In windows of a shop in Sussex Street in Cambridge throughout January Visualise Exhibitions programme will install films from artists working in art, computer art, science and technology areas including Ernest Edmonds, Liliane Lijn, London Fieldworks and Susan Aldworth as well as moving image work by Anglia Ruskin film and fine art students. This is part of the new Visualise/Changing Spaces/Cambridge Film Trust partnership that will run in different parts of the city through to summer 2012. The computer art work is also co-curated with Nick Lambert of the Computer Arts Society who has selected a group of rarely seen works – including ‘The Flexipede’ by Tony Pritchett (1967) which is the first fully surviving British animation work made with computers , ‘Halls Curtain’ a stunning work made by Paul Brown and Chris Briscoe; ‘Finite Elements’ by Jean Crow and Alan Kitching,which is one of the first British computer animation works made using ‘Kitching’s Antics system that allowed areas to be filled and inbetweening between master frames’* and archetypically stirring footage of The Senster, by Edward Ihnatowicz.**
FULL PROGRAMME OF WORKS:
LILIANE LIJN: THREE WORKS – FASTER THAN BIRDS, STARDUST RUINS, KOAN POEM
TONY PRITCHETT – THE FLEXIPEDE
ALAN KITCHING AND JEAN CROW – FINITE ELEMENTS
ATLAS LAB ALAN KITCHING AND COLIN EMMETT: ANTICS COMPUTER SYSTEM – PART 1, PART 2, PART 3 THE BLOB, PART MEDICINE
PAUL BROWN AND CHRIS BRISCOE – HALLS CURTAIN (Digital Pictures)
EDWARD IHNATOWICZ – THE SENSTER
ERNEST EDMONDS – SHAPING FORM
SUSAN ALDWORTH – CELL SUICIDE
PETE JACKSON- MAIN – MOLECULES
With thanks to ALL THE ARTIST, NICK LAMBERT AND COMPUTER ARTS SOCIETY, Changing Spaces, Cambridge City Council and Cambridge Film Trust
*http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/applications/animation/p001.htm
**http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/edward-ihnatowicz-the-senster.html
