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  • lotte reiniger

    Don’t kill your babies

    Underwire Festival has taken on the mantle of championing female talent. As a festival it’s young, self-assured and more renegade than those who have come before it. It gives firm support: sharing careers advice in forums across the country, keeping the community updated about the careers of previous festival winners on the website, and running an…

    09/12/2012
  • Liz Green: Displacement Song © Kate Anderson

    Giving Life to Stills

    I am delighted to be presenting a panel celebrating animated shorts made by women with several lovely lady animators at Underwire Festival, at the Ritzy in Brixton on Saturday 24 November at 12.30pm. I’ve assembled a great panel of awe-inspiring animators who work across animated documentary, fine art film, music videos, art education and kids tv…

    20/11/2012
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    Three games to test your metal

    The past month I’ve been spending a lot of my time travelling about in South Korea and the South West of England, giving me ample opportunity to play games on various devices. So in true Mashable style here are my current Top 3 good looking games for the casual gamer: 1.    Limbo Platforms: Mac, PC,…

    01/10/2012

  • All Eyes on the East

    As next week I’ll be heading off to Gwangju, South Korea to participate in emergent art fair art:gwangju:12 and to take a peek at the host of delights featuring in this year’s Gwangju Biennale it seems apt to pen a few thoughts about Korean art. Between Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation A couple of months ago…

    28/08/2012
  • Scala Beyond

    Filling the country with alternative cinema

    On Thursday, Scala Forever launched its new season dubbed Scala Beyond at the Roxy in Borough with the call to arms to ‘fill the land with cinemas’. Once again harnessing the industry of the purveyors of independent cinema into one six week season, Scala Forever showcases a spectrum of the good (Bird with Crystal Plumage),…

    31/07/2012

  • The Outsiders and the Outlaws

    In the last couple of weeks I’ve found myself at two exhibitions that explore the issues and abuses faced by Roma communities. Firstly, at Roma-Sinti-Kale-Manush at Rivington Place in London, and then The Bucaneers at the Stade Hall in Hastings, East Sussex. With the recent controversy stirred up in the media by Channel 4’s offensive…

    10/06/2012

  • People vs the machine

    This week I have been pondering this online world I visit somewhat and how it shapes who we are and what we do. Meet the artists A real treat  was to finally come face to face in the real world with Italian artists and hacktivists, Eva and Franco Mattes, who were over for their exhibition…

    15/05/2012
  • Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, This Is It Collective

    My top online films in 2011

    I wrote this list for Sight & Sound about the best films to find on the internet last year. It was difficult to narrow it down to just five, let alone keep track of every good thing that went viral in the past 12 months. 1. David O’Reilly’s The External World You may have caught…

    20/04/2012