Thomson & Craighead

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Jon Thomson (born 1969) and Alison Craighead (born 1971) are London-based visual artists, who work with video, sound and the internet.

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[edit] Life and work

Jon Thomson was born in London, England and Alison Craighead in Aberdeen, Scotland.

They have been working together with video, sound and the internet since 1993.[1] Much of their work to date explores how technology changes the way we perceive the world around us.[2] They use live data to make artworks, including "template cinema online artworks"[3] and gallery installations,[4] where networked movies are created in real time from online material such as remote-user security web cams, audio feeds and chat room text transcripts.

Recently (as of 2008) they have made outdoor semi-permanent works, Decorative Newsfeeds[5] and BEACON,[6] where the emphasis is on how live virtual information might interact with physical public space.[clarify] In 2008 they made an animated documentary, Flat Earth,[7] where the voices of bloggers found online are combined with public domain satellite imagery.

In 2005 they won Arts Foundation award,[8] and were fellows at the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire in Autumn 2004.[9]

Thomson lectures at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.[10] Craighead is currently a senior researcher at the University of Westminster,[11] and also lectures in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.

[edit] Exhibitions

Exhibitions include Tate Britain;[12] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA;[13] Laboral Art Centre in Gijon, Spain;[14] Zentrum Kunst Media ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; The New Museum, New York; Mejanlabs, Stockholm; Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase, New York.[15]

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Organisation, artist collective, Thomson & Craighead [GB]. V2 (2002). Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
  2. ^ 40 Artists, 40 Days, Thomson & Craighead,. Tate (2005). Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
  3. ^ Template Cinema Online. Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead (2004). Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
  4. ^ Short Films about Flying (a template cinema installation). Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead (2002). Retrieved on 2008-04-02.
  5. ^ Decorative Newsfeeds (Outdoor version at The Junction in Cambridge). Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead (2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-02.
  6. ^ BEACON (Railway flap sign at British Film Institute on London's Southbank). Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead (2007). Retrieved on 2008-04-02.
  7. ^ Flat Earth (A desktop documentary). Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead (2007). Retrieved on 2008-04-02.
  8. ^ Arts Foundation, Fellows Archive. Arts Foundation (2005). Retrieved on 2008-04-07.
  9. ^ The MacDowell Colony index of fellows. The MacDowell Colony (2004). Retrieved on 2008-04-02.
  10. ^ Slade School of Fine Art : Academic Staff. University College London (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
  11. ^ School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages. University of Westminster (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
  12. ^ Art and Money Online, Tate Britain,. Tate (2001). Retrieved on 2008-04-05.
  13. ^ 010101 Art in Technological Times, SFMOMA,. SFMOMA (2001). Retrieved on 2008-04-05.
  14. ^ Feedback at Laboral Arts Centre, Spain. Laboral Arts Centre (2007). Retrieved on 2008-04-07.
  15. ^ New Media: Where? Neuberger Museum of Art. Nueberger Museum of Art (2006). Retrieved on 2008-04-03.

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