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EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS AND PERFORMANCES
2009  
  Interrupted Correspondence, Five Years Gallery
Things We Get Confused

 

Skegness International, part of Black/North SEAS
Commissioned by Beacon
Hinterland

  Tasty!, Albany Theatre, Deptford, London
Deptford Bingo

  Each Teach, Campbell Works at the Five Years Gallery
Dowsing for Sceptics

2008  
 

FRED - an art invasion across Cumbria, Cumbria, UK (cat.)
Under the Waters

 

Art in the Open, Stream Arts, London
Strandline


 

Pocket Film Festival, Paris
Instant Films – films made on mobile phones with young people

 

 

FILMOBILE, London
Instant Films and In My Name

 

  Jedburgh Sound Café, Jedburgh, Scotland
Demo Chants
2007  
  Shoreditch Festival 2007, London
Liberty of Hoxton (a Festival Commission)

  In Transit Festival, London
Hints To Travellers (a Festival Commission)

  Pocket Film Festival, Paris
e-state and Here I Am, Still Strong

  dot[.] party, Hayward Gallery, London
My Territory mobile phone films

2006

 
  Peter Stuyvesant’s Ghost, New York
Curators: Lise Brenner and Michelle Ngai
kerkorgaan / graven / klokken, Micro-soundscapes of Friesland and Ik kweekte de tee in Nieuw Amsterdam [I grew the tea in New Amsterdam]

  No Place Like Home, Beacon Art Project, Revesby, Lincolnshire
Commissioned by Beacon
International Vegetable Bingo (a Performance Commission)

  Camberwell Arts Festival, London
The Right To Live with Alex Hodson (a Festival Commission)

  San Francisco International Film Festival
e-state

  node-l Media Arts Festival, London
Dowsing Poplar

2005

 
 

Mobile - an exhibition of playful, clever and tender art made with, for and about mobile phones, Arena Gallery, Liverpool
Here I am Still Strong


  EASTinternational 2005, Norwich Gallery, Norwich Gallery, Norwich (cat.)
Selector: Gustav Metzger
In My Name

  zeroesandones, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke
e-state

2004

 
 

Big Issue Film Festival Gala Evening, London
e-state

  We Did It! Snapshots in sounds and pictures, Hackney Central Library, London
Alternative Tourist Map of Hackney and work made with TeenLab youth project in Hackney

  A Better Place, Bow Festival, London
Changing Bow: A Guided Tour (a Festival Commission)
Curator: Melanie Keen

2002

 
 

Word Up, Stoke Newington Festival, London
48 words

2001

 
  sk8 n16, Stoke Newington Festival, London
A day of skateboarding and art, co-curated with Jes Benstock

2000

 
  Tow Festival, London
Mirror Screen, a collaboration with Jes Benstock

  Open, The Roundhouse, London
The Effect, with Jes Benstock

  Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, England
Artist in Residence

  Church of the Living Cinema, 291 Gallery, London, June
A night of live and interactive film and video screenings, co-curated with Jes Benstock

  Stoke Newington Festival, London
Paradise (a Festival Commission)

  Darklight Digital Festival, Dublin, Ireland
The Effect, with Jes Benstock

1999

 
  Riverside Studios, London
Idle Talk

  Holding the Time, Watermans Arts Centre, London

  Enchanted Garden, Larmer Tree Gardens, Wiltshire, England
The Effect, with Jes Benstock

  Stoke Newington Festival, London
The Effect, a collaboration with Jes Benstock

  Watermans Arts Centre, London
Idle Talk (recommission)

  Digital Underground M.A. Degree Show, Aldwych Station, London
Idle Talk