PROJECT DIRECTORS
desperate optimists are Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, a Dublin born London based art group. Over the past 10 years desperate optimists have established themselves as a leading UK art group having created and presented many high profile and successful works both nationally and internationally. Central to all their work is the creative exploration of new technology and narrative. Recent projects include the highly acclaimed map50. and three new DVD projects: Catalogue; Night Bus; and Framing London.
info@desperateoptimists.com
www.desperateoptimists.com

ARTISTS
Simon Aeppli was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and moved to Newport, Wales to study film and video at Gwent College of Higher Education then enrolled onto BA Fine Art at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. Simon's graduation film The Honeycomb Stomach was shown at a number of British and European film festivals. Since arriving in London, Simon has continued to produce and collaborate on films and videos. In 2001 he worked with performance artist David Collins to create VEHICLE, a month long installation commissioned by Gallery 39, Cardiff, Wales. Simon is due to begin a period of research and development with choreographer Nic Sandiland at the Chisenhale Dance Space. He has worked as a freelance video editor and part-time lecturer at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and New Vic College, Newham, London.
simon@myopic.fsnet.co.uk

Richard Crow gained a strong reputation with the Institution of Rot, located in a private house in London and the projects realised there. Richard has developed an uncanny practice located between contemporary performance and installation. An art of the abject and the emotive fragment, he uses found and appropriated objects and materials (sometimes autobiographical). His works often directly reference the histories real or imagined of the sites where they are based. Richard has exhibited and performed extensively in the UK and internationally including Australia and New Zealand. Click here for the complete text of the poem by Jude Rosen featured in Richard's film, "c h".
executor@richardcrow.demon.co.uk
www.kunstradio.at/ARCHIVE/archive.html
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www.elision.org.au/projects/opening/installation.html
www.elision.org.au/projects/opening/scherben.html

Annette Fry was born in Newham. A different time and place. Studied and worked as a lawyer for 10 years, then as a variety of other things. Retrained as a visual artist producing work in ceramics, metal, mosaic, installation, tape slide programs etc. Annette has exhibited regularly, and worked as an artist in schools, hospitals, colleges, community contexts, providing training and art projects including many permanent commissions, both public and private for internal and external spaces. She is increasingly concerned with the idea of spatial transformation. Other lifetime interest is music, singing and writing. She has sung with several choirs (ENO, gospel, rock) and performs her own music. This project has offered the chance to combine many of her concerns, particularly the preoccupation with space, time and memory. 'Things disappear, spaces and structures change, but our memories are still the most powerful maps and cannot so easily be eradicated (saving alzheimers). Life's passing moments, their intensity transformed, transmogrified. Roll on!!'
annettefry@hotmail.com

Kevin Keating does not believe that every picture has been painted, does not believe that every story has been told.
x4nax@hotmail.com

Jocasta Lucas is a London-based sound artist: studied music (BA) at Dartington College of Arts, currently doing an MA in studio composition at Goldsmiths College. Her work is performance and installation-based, working collaboratively with theatre practitioners, video artists, dancers, choreographers and visual artists. Her work focuses on the relationship between sound and the moving image, exploring different ways to connect the two. It is very much about the forgotten and unspoken in everyday life...people that aren't noticed....the words that aren't said in a conversation...dreams that are not chased. Recent work strike softly from body, a collaboration between mime, butoh and digital art. Performed at Hoxton Hall, 2001.
jocastalucas@hotmail.com

Andy Roberts is a web developer and multimedia artist living in Newham. He left school at sixteen and lived in France as an itinerant musician for a few years, then returned to Cornwall and trained as a mainframe computer programmer. Since then he has continued playing the guitar and other instruments while working as a systems analyst, cook and professional revolutionary. His best work of art has been bringing up two sons on his own and some of his other interests are explored on his personal website: www.frankieroberto.com/dad
andy.roberts@chacewater.net
For further information about Andy's movies - including recipes, soundtracks and to hear full mp3 versions of the songs used - please follow this link: www.frankieroberto.com/dad/minute

Stephanie Turnbull finished a degree in film and television at CCAD then moved to London and began working on several short films at the NFTS. Through this Stephanie gained work on a couple of features as part of the lighting team. Desiring a change, and being offered the opportunity to design the lighting for a fringe show, Stephanie moved into a theatre career culminating as Stage Manager of a West End venue. Between jobs Stephanie produced several projects. The highlights being a pop promo for Skint Records and MTV, and a short drama broadcast on Meridian Television, currently performing well on the festival circuit.
stephx@postmaster.co.uk

Gillian Wylde boredom, waiting, desire and uncertainty, comedy ha ha trauma, repetition and hooray failure. Gillian Wylde was born in Glasgow in 1966. Based in London, she is an artist sort working with video, text and performance. Much of the work she makes references popular culture, pets, film and art. She has shown work in the UK, Denmark, including, the ICA London, CCA Glasgow, National Review of Live Art in Glasgow, eXpo in Nottingham and Scenekunst Festival in Denmark. Gillian Wylde is a regular collaborator with visual artist David Hewlett.
wyldegillian@hotmail.com

MARKETING AND PUBLICITY
Arti Dillon somehow seems to get the word about - not sure how - she's not very articulate and what a terrible mix of accents.. with one of those working class bag of chips on her shoulder - though she is obviously eating her way through them. She has a thing about access and opportunities - reflecting local and international concerns/movements, alienation, balancing modern day living, struggle and solidarity. Currently working for Signals Media Arts, Essex managing a video drama production and 1/3 of Percy street riots whose video triptych 3 will be part of the Writing on the Wall Festival in Liverpool in June 2002.
arti.dillon@lineone.net