Susan Alexis Collins
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Susan Collins PhD, is an English
artist and academic; one of the UK's leading artists working with digital media
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Collins works across public, gallery and online spaces. Her recent works mainly employ transmission, networking and time as primary materials, often exploring the role of illusion or belief in their construction and interpretation. Works include In Conversation; Tate in Space (a bafta nominated Tate netart commission); Transporting Skies which transported sky (and other phenomena) live between Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance in Cornwall and Site Gallery Sheffield in Yorkshire; Fenlandia and Glenlandia - live year long pixel by pixel internet transmissions from remote landscapes, and The Spectrascope, an ongoing live pixel by pixel transmission from a haunted house.
Collins' early computer animation works were screened nationally and internationally, at venues including: the London International Film Festivals; the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Siggraph Las Vegas and Chicago; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; JAGDA, Tokyo; and the Berlin VideoFest.
Recently completed commissions include a wildlife surveillance system for Sarah Wigglesworth Architects’s RIBA award winning Classroom of the Future; Underglow, a network of illuminated drains for the Corporation of London for Light Up Queen Street and Chaser, a lighting commission for GLOW ‘07 Newcastle.
Recent group exhibitions at Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada; Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark; Montevideo/The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam; ARC Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria; Harewood House, Leeds; One in the Other, London; Project Space Leeds; Osterwalder’s Art Office, Hamburg; SHIFT 2009, Basel; Edith-Ruß-Haus, Oldenberg and Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany.
In 2009 she exhibited Seascape , a solo show at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and the De La Warr Pavilion and recently completed Love Brid, a short film for Animate Projects.
Susan Collins is currently Director of the Slade School of Fine Art
, University College London, where she established the Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) in 1995.
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artist and academic; one of the UK's leading artists working with digital media
Digital media
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Collins works across public, gallery and online spaces. Her recent works mainly employ transmission, networking and time as primary materials, often exploring the role of illusion or belief in their construction and interpretation. Works include In Conversation; Tate in Space (a bafta nominated Tate netart commission); Transporting Skies which transported sky (and other phenomena) live between Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance in Cornwall and Site Gallery Sheffield in Yorkshire; Fenlandia and Glenlandia - live year long pixel by pixel internet transmissions from remote landscapes, and The Spectrascope, an ongoing live pixel by pixel transmission from a haunted house.
Collins' early computer animation works were screened nationally and internationally, at venues including: the London International Film Festivals; the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Siggraph Las Vegas and Chicago; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; JAGDA, Tokyo; and the Berlin VideoFest.
Recently completed commissions include a wildlife surveillance system for Sarah Wigglesworth Architects’s RIBA award winning Classroom of the Future; Underglow, a network of illuminated drains for the Corporation of London for Light Up Queen Street and Chaser, a lighting commission for GLOW ‘07 Newcastle.
Recent group exhibitions at Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada; Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark; Montevideo/The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam; ARC Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria; Harewood House, Leeds; One in the Other, London; Project Space Leeds; Osterwalder’s Art Office, Hamburg; SHIFT 2009, Basel; Edith-Ruß-Haus, Oldenberg and Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany.
In 2009 she exhibited Seascape , a solo show at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and the De La Warr Pavilion and recently completed Love Brid, a short film for Animate Projects.
Susan Collins is currently Director of the Slade School of Fine Art
Slade School of Fine Art
The Slade School of Fine Art is a world-renownedart school in London, United Kingdom, and a department of University College London...
, University College London, where she established the Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) in 1995.