Simon Fildes & Katrina McPherson (UK)


Simon Fildes & Katrina McPherson
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JIP – JavaMuseum Interview

Katrina McPherson

has made many single video-dance works that have been broadcast and shown at festivals across the world; ‘Moment’ was awarded the prestigious ‘Best Screen Choreography’ award at the IMZ Dance Screen Festival. Katrina received the prestigious Creative Scotland award in 2002.
Simon Fildes
is involved in the on-going development of New Media works in public spaces and in 2000 he was awarded one of the Scotland’s Year of the Artist residencies. Simon has just completed two new media artist in residency projects in the Highlands of Scotland this year. In 2001 Katrina and Simon collaborated on making a web dance work ‘big’ for the funding scheme Alt-W at hyperchoreography.org; and made a series of works about the Scottish road A889 for the ‘Remote’ residencies project for New Media Scotland in 2002. In 2004 they received funding from Scottish Arts council to develop their Hyperchoreography concept further.

Simon Fildes & Katrina McPherson participate in

  • JavaMuseum – Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
  • JIP – JavaMuseum Interview
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    I-Islands – netart from Great Britain & Ireland
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    Extasy – the final show
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  • Featured Projects
  • by NMartproject.net – curated by Agricola de Cologne

    interactive piece, entitled: “Ardnamurchan Zillij”