About Friday Late Transvision

Transvision formed part of the Contemporary Programme's ongoing remit of linking contemporary practice to the V&A's historical collections through gallery-based installations.

The new media collective, Onedotzero presented both past and new work, creating new media interventions in the galleries. Onedotzero worked with the V&A inviting artists to respond to the Museum's galleries and collections using digital, audio and moving image media.

Artists devised a series of specially curated experiances which brought together the very best in motion graphics, music videos, short films, interactive design, music and architecture. They extracted new meanings from museum objects, leading you through familiar and unfamiliar environments.

Artists included, Airside, AllofUs, D-fuse, Hi-Res!, Intro, Jason Bruges, Neutral, Peepshow, Saam, Tank.TV, The Light Surgeons, Trevor Jackson, United Visual Artists, Pre-Loaded and Universal Everything.

The commission formed a major part of the Friday Late, enabling four artists and designers to create new work in response to objects and spaces within the V&A. This new work was supported by a range of other activity on the evening from film screenings to gallery talks.

The commissioned artists and designers were Dominic Hailstone , Ed Holdsworth, Phillip O Dwyer and Sennep.

Dominic Hailstone Commission

Dominic Hailstone has been directing short films and music videos for the last four years. His first film 'Logboy goes walkies' won the Channel 4 / Tango Digitalent award. His most recent film, The Eel has recently been nominated for the British Animation Awards 'Best Film at the Cutting Edge'. He is currently signed to Colonel Blimp Ltd. and is working on two film scripts.

For Friday Late Transvision Dominic Hailstone produced the film Belladonna. This was filmed using third scale rod puppets to create a three minute digital video. The film explores the history of puppetry: from the ancient Japanese art of bunraku, to shadow puppeteering and finally to the latest computer generated techniques.

The film revolves around the growth of a female character in an empty white room. As the film progresses the room gradually starts to fall apart. As it decays it causes the female character to react to the change and blossom into something beautiful and new.

Ed Holdsworth Commission

Ed Holdsworth began directing, designing and animating digital short films, promos and stings in 2000. His work is characterised by his use of sound and narrative combined with simple graphic imagery to create subliminal stories. Named a 'Creative Future' by Creative Review in 2003, he has worked with Channel Four, Lemon Jelly, the ICA and Radiohead.

'I have been working extensively with abstract interpretations and reactions to geographical locations. In January 2003 I was in Japan for five weeks, exploring and shooting footage for a number of projects. I was in the skyscraper district of Shinjuku in Tokyo one afternoon when I noticed that the light was changing, becoming quite unusual and was reacting with the buildings in a way that evoked a feeling that some localised event was taking place. I felt party to a subtle phenomenon.

'Since January I have been working on a way of expressing the way the phenomena made me feel, And have found in  my project, "Land-Bubble Shinjuku', a suitable means for this expression.'

Phillip O Dwyer Commission

Philip O'Dwyer is a London-based Graphic designer, working in print and interactive media. Formerly a partner in the studio State Design, he has been working independently since the beginning of 2005. Current clients include Nesta Futurelab, Imagination + onedotzero.

His work for Friday Late Transvision was inspired by the incredible variety of natural world motifs found on decorated artefacts from the Japan collection, and was projected onto a wall within the  V&A Japanese gallery.

His work can be seen at  www.philipodwyer.com

Sennep Commisison: Digital Dandelion

Sennep is an interactive design company creating experiences for digital and physical environments. Sennep was founded by Matt Rice and Hege Aaby in 2003. Since inception they have worked on independent art installations for the ICA and Notting Hill Arts Club and for clients such as Motorola, Horlicks and The Norwegian Embassy.

Combining video, graphics and code this interactive Dandelion scatters it's seeds in all directions when blown by gallery visitors. The seeds reform to create yet another beautiful weed.