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'Beehive', Video still, 2010
Based in our London office, Michaela Nettell is an artist and filmmaker and the latest addition to a-n’s editorial production team.
Michaela graduated from Norwich School of Art and Design in 2003 and the Royal College of Art in 2007. Her short films and installations describe experiences of memory and perception.
Michaela's work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe and the US including The Tank (New York), Kunstzentrum Z33 (Hasselt, Belgium) and Gimpel Fils (London) and is regularly screened at international moving image festivals and events.
She recently collaborated with sound designer Tom Simmons and UCL neuroscientist Dr Hugo Spiers on a Wellcome Trust-funded research project, creating an audio-visual installation that explores ways in which networks of brain cells recall memories. She is also currently engaged in a Research Residency at Culpeper Community Garden in Islington.
"I use time-lapse photography, pixilation and high-speed video to observe patterns and rhythms of nature, drawing attention to barely discernible movements and minute changes over time. Using video and film projectors, glass and mirrored surfaces, I re-present these photographic documents in works that explore the shifting and elusive nature of internal imaging and reverie.
"I am fascinated by the ways light and glass interact - by the optical effects and colour patterns that are created when one meets the other, and by our sensory and imaginative reactions to them. I am interested in the ways images we receive in the present merge with those we recall from the past - that they are indeterminate and in a constant state of flux. By combining projected moving imagery with fluid projection surfaces I find ways to make visible these complex and fleeting sensations."
www.michaela-nettell.com
www.pattern-completion.net
www.a-n.co.uk/link/mnettell
First published: a-n.co.uk September 2010
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