Stewart COLLINSON I am a practising Artist Filmmaker. My work with moving image is profoundly informed by the body of work created by artists since the beginning of cinema. As the moving image became appropriated by storytellers and conveyers of ideology and information in the early part of the 20th Century, visual artists have used the medium for other purposes. Having dispensed with narrative as a means of structuring time, many turned to music as the model to organise the duration of this new visual time-based medium. Explored in this way, the moving image becomes an abstract medium, freed from representation, consisting instead of the fundamentals of light and darkness, colour, movement and rhythm. Current and emergent digtal technologies offer the artist the possiblity of blurring the boundaries between existing artforms even further.
Stewart Collinson
As an artist I believe in the principle of mixing traditional and innovatory technologies and working methods to achieve what can be called "eyemusic"
 My work covers a range of activities: as an artist making moving image work for single-screen viewing and gallery installation; as a facilitator of arts education project work with regional, national and international arts organisations in collaboration with composers, musicians and dancers. The outcomes of these projects can also be work for single screen, multi-screen installation or live mixing and projection of video and digital imagery for performance. In addition I am a visiting lecturer in Moving image at the Faculties of Art and Design and Media Production at Lincoln University.

recent work:
  • Angel: Sound/Video Composition with composer Jo THOMAS, commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Festival, Sonic Arts Network and GRM, Paris 2002
  • Sonimation Plus: Animation/Sound workshop, Sonic Arts Network, State of the Nation Festival, Royal Festival Hall April 2002
  • Creating A Splash: Sound/Video Installation with composer Duncan CHAPMAN and musicians from the Britten Sinfonia and The Philharmonia Orchestra: April - July 2002 Education project
  • You Can Imagine: Sound/Video intallation and live performance with composer Duncan CHAPMAN, Hudderdfield Contemporary Music Festival. November 2002 A Sonic Arts Network Education project

Stewart COLLINSON homepage