YAM AT SAM is a programming collaboration between Singapore Art Museum and artists Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen of the artist-run analogue film lab Film Nerve. The collective will present a series of live performances, hands-on workshops and regional screenings focused on analogue photochemical experimentation and expanded cinema.
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Handing Over Horror Film – essay by Luisa Greenfield
In 2024, TLC participated in a panel discussion led by the good folks at LaborBerlin (Germany) about expanded cinema re-enactment. The event was called “Unburdened Recollections: Considering the Expanded Cinema Archive”, and it was part of EMAF, the European Media Arts Festival. We were joined by Malcolm Le Grice in the discussion, and we talked …
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Dusting off: the Peter Mudie Archives
Dusting off: the Peter Mudie Archives WHEN: Thurs Dec 4, 2025, 11am-12:30pm WHERE: UWA EZONE North 109 WHO: All welcome! ORGANISERS: A/Prof Jo Law, Dr Paul Boyé, A/Prof Lucas Ihlein, Prof Eleanor Suess, Dr Louise Curham, Dr Lee Kinsella, with support from Peter Mudie’s family and the AAANZ conference. In 1993, the late Peter Mudie …
Line Describing a Cone – Jess’ experience
When we shared Line Describing a Cone with the students and staff at UOW, we were joined by Jess. She’s a former student of mine who often attends things in an “unofficial” capacity – and this ambiguous role – an insider-outsider – is something that contributes to her valuable insights. Jess’ observations are always welcome …
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CONE & BULB – event info
When: Saturday 20 September, 6.30-8pm Venue: Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra Attendance is free, bookings required: Register here [Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone (1973) presented at CEMENTA Festival in Kandos, 2015. Photo by Alex Wisser] CONE + BULB – an evening of landmark Expanded Cinema is a presentation by Australian artist group Teaching and …
Collecting and Preserving New Media and Performance Art (with Pip and Libby)
While in England, I (Lucas) was lucky enough to visit Pip Laurenson and Libby Ireland at University College London. They have a whole program which tackles the philosophical and practical challenges of conserving media art and performative art. In the photo above, you can see Pip showing me a very fancy celluloid film scanning device, …
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Proposition for the museum acquisition of Horror Film 1
Museums find it difficult to collect works of media and performance art, compared with traditional art objects like paintings, drawings, and sculpture. This makes sense. A media artwork might consist of a combination of software and hardware, as well as data-storage components (digital files, audio tapes, celluloid films, etc) all of which can be volatile …
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Making connections in France and England
I (Lucas) am on a trip to Europe, mainly for family reasons. While I’m here, I decided to take the opportunity to visit some folks TLC has been working with for a while. This is Raja Appuswamy, a data scientist who’s been leading the “synthetic DNA” component of our collaboration. Raja lives in the south …
Documentation from UK Le Grice exhibition
Recently we had the pleasure to contribute to the DNA:AND exhibition at Velarde Gallery in England. The gallery has kindly sent a few photos for our records. Here is the media release about TLC’s work for the exhibition.
A draft manual about making manuals…
We recently received an email requesting advice on how to make a users manual for the re-enactment of a historical artwork. here are a few notes…