╳ Day 1 of the Lost&Found™ Workshop, organised by Thread Count Lab and The D/sign Lounge, kicked off to a great start with MVC Tutors and students equally excited to hear Media Artist and Filmmaker Scott Hessels talk about his work. Mr Hessels, the Workshop keynote Speaker and special guest, has released art and commercial projects in several different media including film, video, web, music, broadcast, print and performance, and his films and videos have shown in hundreds of international film and new media festivals, on television, and in contemporary art galleries over the past 20 years. ╳ A keen ‘experimenter’ with the cinematic form, his recent artworks have mixed film with sensors, robotics, and alternative forms of interactivity and his current series are types of experimental cinema generating systems-players. Past pieces include movies generated through topology: ‘Mulholland Drive’, environmental data: ‘Brakelights’, data sets: ‘Celestial Mechanics’ and viewer location and movement: ‘GPSFilm’. Currently his projects are based on the theme of ‘Sustainable Cinema’ in which cinema players are powered with sustainable energy sources; and ‘The Image Mill’, Sustainable Cinema No. 1 (2010), a public sculpture that uses the force and beauty of falling water as the energy to create a moving picture, was recently presented at The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
╳ As a Media Artist, his installations have been shown internationally and include the Museum of Modern Art, New York, CiberArt, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, The ICA and Japan's Media Art Festival, as well as being included in several books on new Media Art.
╳ After previously teaching in the Design Media Arts Department at UCLA and at the School of Art, Design and Media in Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, Scott Hessels is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.
╳ With inspiration such as this Thread Count Lab eagerly awaits the finished Workshop projects on Friday. Watch this space!
