m-ia | MEMORY IN ART

Shona Illingworth | ARTIST

Shona Illingworth has shown her work extensively in Europe, Canada and the UK. Major commissions and exhibitions include Turnaround for the Hayward Gallery in 2001, commissions for FABRICA and Channel 4 Television in 2001, IP, London in 2003, Rideout in 2006, and more recently the British Council, SPACE, London and Cornerhouse, Manchester in 2007.

During 2007 – 2008, her film The Watch Man was presented at the International Images Festival, Toronto, Dilston Grove and The Wellcome Collection, London. Her film Balnakiel, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella is currently on a solo exhibition tour, showing at John Hansard Gallery in 2009 and Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 2010. An artist monograph will be published by Film and Video Umbrella in 2010. She lives and works in London.

the red shed
the watch man
still breathing
balnakiel
memory forums

Martin A Conway | MEMORY RESEARCHER

Martin A. Conway is a leading international expert in the field of Autobiographical Memory and is currently ESRC Professorial Fellow of Psychology at Leeds University.

His work explores the centrality of memory to our sense of self and he has written extensively on the subject. His specialist research areas include false memory, memory and emotion, memory and trauma and memory and culture.

Her became Chair of the Research Board of the British Psychological Society in 2006.

balnakiel
the watch man
memory forums

Luciano Zubillaga | FILM MAKER

Luciano Zubillaga is an artist filmmaker based in London. He grew up between Tucuman, Buenos Aires and Caracas, where he studied philosophy and arts. In 1993 he moved to London to study photography and filmmaking. His short films have been exhibited internationally in festivals and museums including BAFICI Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art and Whitechapel Gallery. In 2008, his project Music for a Missing Film was funded through the London Artists' Film and Video Awards (LAFVA08). In 2006 he produced the film installation for Zulueta-Romano's opera Tango mon Amour.

music for a missing film
pampas
the red scout

Gary Stewart | ARTIST

Gary Stewart is an artist and Head of Multimedia and Research at inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), London.

He has over 15 years experience in electronic media as a tutor, designer and producer with a special interest in the relationship between culture, technology and creativity. Formerly a Multimedia Producer and Director of the Multimedia Workshop at Artec, the Arts Technology Centre in London, Gary joined inIVA in 1995. He has a degree in Electronics and Computers from Nottingham Trent University.

Mark Ingham | ARTIST

Mark Ingham completed a PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2005 entitled 'Afterimages: Photographs as an External Autobiographical Memory System and a Contemporary Art Practice'. The photographic images and projections he produces are an exploration into experiences of autobiographical remembering and forgetting. They are attempts to evoke a form of 'paramnesia', whereby fantasy and reality collapse to create a sense of dejavu.

He has exhibited widely, most recently in London in the exhibition 'Episo=
de' in Deptford [2005-2006], Leeds [2006] and Miami [2006]. Also 'Fantastic!' an exhibition held in the Crypt of St. Pancreas Church, The Greatest Show on Earth, in Folkestone and has shown a film PALAVER in Lille, France.

Examples of his work can be seen at: www.iniva.org, www.artangel.org.uk

ships that pass
afterimages

Cristiano Berti | ARTIST

Cristiano Berti participated in the II edition of the International Biennale of Torino in 2002, Big Social Game, directed by M.Pistoletto. He has been part of numerous collectives of which GE Da Guarene all Etna, curated by F.Maggia (Guarene 2003, Palermo 2004), ManifesTO (Torino 2004) and In Sede, curated by F.Poli (Torino 2005). His most recent solo shows include Galleria Carbone.to in Torino (2003),
AOCF58 Space in Rome (2004) and Universal Embassy at V Festival internazionale della Fotografia, Roma (2006).

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