Professor Elizabeth Price

Courses taught

• Fine Art MFA
• Fine Art BA (Hons)

I work in the field of contemporary art moving image. I use digital video incorporating live action, motion graphics, 3D computer animation and sound. The videos I make combine multiple social and cultural histories in the course of a single work. They include storytelling, but are not linear, usually employing multiple narrators and cyclical presentation. They are intended to be exhibited in installation, incorporating a specifically designed environment. Whilst I am informed by histories of narrative cinema, documentary and experimental film, my works are more concerned with digital moving video and its contemporary heterogeneity.

Digital moving images are currently used for a wide range of purposes, in television and cinema, but also in applications as varied as knowledge organisation and navigation. Moreover, the production-worlds of reprography, phonography and film, previously separated in technical, cultural and institutional terms, increasingly coincide through the digital. So, in part my work responds to this particular moment, in which several distinct technical and cultural histories convene.

The moving image projects and artworks I have concluded in the period between 2006 and 2020 are all developed from existing cultural and historical materials and objects. My interest has predominantly been in collections of photography and in archives. I am particularly interested in images that have migrated through a series of contexts and technologies. To this I add the manifold technical possibilities of digital, moving-image editing and post-production processes. I usually convey the social history of artefacts, but also compose stories that elaborate upon it. These are usually in ghost or science fiction genres. I use such fabulation to create a spectral proxy for the endless, unknown archival omissions: experiences and histories which remain unrepresented in the archival record.

Specialisms

• Visual Art
• Moving image and sound