Vince Briffa
http://www.vincebriffa.net/
participant in
VAD – Video Art Database
Vince Briffa is participating in
Title: “I am my Photograph”, video, 2005
VideoChannel – Selfportraits
Title: “I am my Photograph”, video, 2005
Vince Briffa is the curator and artist of this selection
VideoChannel – Video Art from MALTA
Title of work: Spiral, 3 videos, 2004
featuring also these artists
Austin Camilleri
Pierre Portelli
Mark Mangion
Born in Malta in 1958, studied at the: Malta School of Art (1974 – 1977); Edinburgh College of Arts, Scotland (1996); Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds, UK (MA Fine Art with distinction – 1999-2000). Research Artist, Electronic and Digital Art Unit, University of Central Lancashire in the UK (MPhil/PhD Fine Art – part-time – 2004 to the present).
Works mainly in video, electronic digital media and installation.
Video, new media and installation artist Vince Briffa has had his work shown in some of the most prestigious international venues including the 1999 Venice Biennale and the Villa Manin Museum of Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy; the Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Cyprus; the MOYA and Only Atelier in Vienna and the ‘Johanniterkirche’ in Feldkirch, Austria; the Palais des Nations, United Nations Building, Geneva, Switzerland; the grounds of the Museum of Modern Art, Vaduz, Liechtenstein; the Edinburgh Festivals – 1996 & 2000 and Matthew Gallery, Edinburgh and the Invergordon Gallery, Inverness, Scotland; the Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford and Bretton Hall Gallery, Wakefield, UK; Galerie d’Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain; Queen Street Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland and the Cathedral Museum, Mdina, the Museum of Fine Art, the Museum of Archaeology and St. James Centre for Creativity in Valletta, Malta.
Vince Briffa has studied with sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi at the Edinburgh College of Art, holds an MA in Fine Art & Digital Media from Leeds University and is currently doctoral research artist at the Electronic and Digital Art Unit of the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. He is also visiting lecturer at the University of Malta and also at the Unit for Contemporary Art Practice at the University of Leeds. Vince Briffa is a founding member of START, a Maltese contemporary art group.
Apart from curating all his exhibitions and installations, Vince Briffa has curated exhibitions at the National Museum of Fine Arts including ‘Kreativa’ (1996) and ‘Works’ by British artist Andy Anderson (2000); and at St. James Centre for Creativity for Maltese artists Ian Attard and Marco Scerri (2004). Vince Briffa has been chosen by St. James Centre for Creativity, Malta to curate ‘Digital Discourse’, an international exhibition of electronic and digital art from the Commonwealth Countries to coincide with the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta in November 2005.
Vince Briffa currently lives in Malta.
Vince Briffa is participating in
Title: “I am my Photograph”, video, 2005
Selfportraits
Title: “I am my Photograph”, video, 2005
Vince Briffa is the curator and artist of this selection
selected videos from MALTA
Title of work: Spiral, 3 videos, 2004
featuring also these artists
Austin Camilleri
Pierre Portelli
Mark Mangion