NEWS:

2009:

In May Vector Paths and Binary Form are being shown as part of DANCE:FILM 09 in Edinburgh.

During April Binary Form is being shown at Dérapage festival in Montreal, and Vector Paths at Agite y Sirva in Mexico.

Binary Form is premiered at Lateral Movement, as part of the Adelaide Film Festival in February and Vector Paths is being screened at Sans Souci Festival of Dance Film in Boulder, Colorado during March.

Vector Paths is being shown as part of Crossbreeds in Vienna during January and at Le Festival International de Vidéo Danse du Breuil in March.

2008:

During November, new work Vector Paths is being shown as part of Frame 2008 Festival Internacional de Video-Dança, Portugal, and at Dance For Camera as part of Cinecity, Brighton, during December.

During October the central section of Three Orchestral Variations is being shown as part of EDIT, Budapest, and Splice is being shown at Oslo Screen Festival.

Text Field is being shown as part of LACDA's DigitalArt.LA exhibition during August, and Splice is included as part of Dança em Foco, Brazil in September.

Trace is being screened at ADF's Dancing for the Camera held at Duke University, North Carolina during July, and Text Field is included in the Lumen Eclipse Typography programme, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Trace and Splice are being shown as part of VDance in Tel Aviv and Il Coreografo Elettronico, Naples in June.

From May to October Trace is being shown as part of ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival, Sydney and subsequent touring programme.Reviewed at RealTime 85.

During April Splice is being shown as part of Moves08 in Manchester and Flicker at Live Screen, Sadler's Wells.

In March, Splice received the jury award of second prize at GstaadFilm Festival, Switzerland. Reviewed at Gstaadonline.

ABOUT:

Shiftwork was founded in Cambridge in 1999 by dancer and choreographer Chirstinn Whyte and photographer and digital artist Jake Messenger.

Shiftwork is an artist-led organisation committed to developing original and innovative work which crosses the boundaries between visual art, digital technology and dance.

Work has been created operating independently of traditional production, distribution and funding contexts.

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All work on this site is © Shiftwork 2000-2009.

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WORK:

screening history

New Work:

phase shift

hand held

vector paths

binary form

Screendance Writing:

screendance 2.0
- researching history, practice and potential future directions for screendance.

unspooled
- collected writing on screendance and moving image, including articles for Dance Theatre Journal, RealTime and Film & Festivals.

motion studies
- MA dissertation on online dance.

 

Archive:

memory pool

memory trace

text field

showreel

motion studies

shiftspace

work 2001-2003