Dave Griffiths
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Contact Information*:
Manchester United Kingdom |
Position: Manipulator Contact Type: Artist |
| Affiliation: Pharmakon | |
| web: http://www.davegriffiths.info | |
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Bio:
Dave Griffiths is an filmmaker & artist based in Manchester. Dave's films and video installations dwell on physical or imaginary borders within media spaces and forms. He uses video and sonic material, often arising from laborious search or unstable technical methods, to devise encounters between media apparatus and the inscription of accidental, surplus or abandoned codes. Dave's "close-up epics" touch on illusions of security and perfection that surround technologies, and attempt to commemorate their temporary structures. Dave Griffiths has exhibited internationally since 2002 in a variety of festivals, conferences, galleries, micro-cinemas and other temporary artist-run spaces. In 2003 along with Nick Jordan , Dave curated and published the Codec/x DVD of video and sonic collaborations from Manchester that toured internationally. He teaches video practice in north-west England, and is currently attempting to produce film projects using mobile-media technology, interactive systems, and network-responsive data visualisation. In 2004 Dave helped to develop the Purescreen artist's video screenings & publications for Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. Dave is interested in testing the borders of digitisation by using deliberately laborious or unstable methods. His videos and installations intend to play with notions of perfection, redundancy and structure surrounding media technology. As a founder of the Pharmakon collective in 2001, he has attempted to activate interdisciplinary working processes to distribute artist’s video and sound. His videos - and collaborations with Nick Jordan, Unplugboy, Lord Mongo, DOS and Illuminati - have screened at events in UK, Holland, USA, Canada, Thailand and Australia. Dave is co-curator of the CODEC/X touring programme, and works as a lecturer in film and video at East Lancashire Institute of Higher Education. Filmography/Awards Info: Lord Mongo Presents (2001), Roused by My Epilepsy (2001), Electro-Intervention (2002), Heatwork for Sparklers and Spycams (2003), Transistor Man (2003), Rogue State (2003), Event Movie (2003, installation), Some Late Turners (2004), Epic Drag (2004); Black & White Dross (2005); Love is a Burning Thing (2006). Awards: Silver Impakt Award, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2005;Best Experimental Film, Exposures Film Festival, Manchester, 2003; 1st Prize, Security Bytes, Lancaster, UK, 2004. This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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