13 January - 28 March 2014

Tessa Power, Channel, 2010. HDV Video still. UCL Art Museum LDUCS-9879 © Tessa Power

Nicolas Feldmeyer, I am unique and so is everyone else, 2012. Video still ©Nicolas Feldmeyer

Nicole Morris, I am Here!, 2011. Video. UCL Art Museum LDUCS-9881 ©Nicole Morris

Marianna Simnett, Dog, 2013. Video still © Marianna Simnett. William Coldstream Prize 2013

Marianna Simnett, Dog, 2013. Video still © Marianna Simnett

Nicolas Feldmeyer, My people, humble people, 2012. Video still ©Nicolas Feldmeyer

Viveka Marksjo, Embodied/Disembodied, 2006. CGI animation on DVD. UCL Art Museum. LDUCS-5727 ©Viveka Marksjo.

Printers' Symphony. From the left: Georgina Tate, Dana Ariel, Julia McKinlay and Eleanor Morgan.
Space, identity, construction and disorientation in UCL Art Museum's growing collection of moving image and sound art
This exhibition showcased UCL Art Museum’s growing collection of time-based media - works of art which depend on technology and change meaningfully with respect to time, and include video, experimental film and audio. The display featured works by graduates from the Slade School of Fine Art, acquired through the annual William Coldstream Memorial Prize, the UCL Art Museum Prize and special commissions, all produced between 2004 and 2013.
The exhibited artists included: Dana Ariel, Tom Chick, Chris Cornish, Marcia Farquhar, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Reynir Hutber, Viveka Marksjo, Julia McKinlay, Eleanor Morgan, Nicole Morris, Tessa Power, Marianna Simnett and Georgina Tate.
Viveka Marksjo represented in the ehxibition with Embodied/Disembodied (2006) was the recipent of the Stanhope Research Award and the Julian Sullivan Award in Fine Art Media in 2006, Nicole Morris work I am here! (2012) featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the ICA that year, Marianna Simnett represented in the exhibition with Dog (2014) was selected for for the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2014 - 2015, Nicholas Feldmeyer represented in the exhibition with Iam unique and so is everyone else (2012) was winner of Channel 4 New Sensations 2012, and Marcia Farquhar was the first receipient Arthole Artist’s Award by LADA (Live Art Development Agency) awarded in 2016 for three years.
- More about the exhibition
The displayed works demonstrated the ways in which these artists play with moving image and sound in order to consider concepts of space, identity, construction and disorientation, and to create a dialogue between viewer and object. For example, ‘Time Based Media’ included The Printers’ Symphony, a collaborative multimedia piece aiming to bring the printing process into the exhibition space, created by Dana Ariel, Julia McKinlay, Eleanor Morgan and Georgina Tate. The sound recording (made from the noises familiar from the print-room environment, including ink rollers and printing press cogs) accompanied by a concertina of printed images and marks was awarded the first UCL Art Museum Prize in 2013. The exhibition also featured Flaxman Exchange, a 2013 collaborative film by Tom Chick, Reynir Hutber and Marcia Farqhuar, which documented Farquhar's performance work around significant spaces of UCL. Read more about this project here.
A series of events, Time-based Media in Conversation, ran alongside the exhibition, including talks by artist Marianna Simnett (winner of the 2013 Coldstream Prize) and an evening performance-lecture by artist and recent Slade PhD graduate Kai Syng Tan. The audio-visual equipment was kindly provided by the Slade School of Fine Art.
Read more about the works in the exhibition here
- More about the Coldstream Prize
The Coldstream Prize is a purchase award selected from the Slade’s degree shows to reflect outstanding achievement over the whole year, rather than requiring students to create pieces to fit specific requirements. This has resulted in a wide array of artwork. Time-based media is one particular strand within the history of the award.