In the 1990s I started working in the TV industry. Building on the training I had received at film school I began to work on Arts and Technology documentary projects. This was accidental as my main interest at the time was in developing and making dance films.
The dance film connection came out of my dissertation from university which dealt with the fusion of phenominal art forms such as dance with the narrative form of film. Traditionally, dance has been forced into a narrative form in order to make it work on film. The results were rarely engaging, so my interest here was to see if it was possible to choreograph the camera into the overall dance choreography thus fusing the visualisation of the dance into the overall piece. One of my favourite exponents of this type of work (which is still pretty rare) is Maya Deren a fantastic film-maker who worked on film in the 1940's. This is still an area which I find fascinating...
Going back to the Arts and Technology documentaries, I was lucky enough to be part of the creative team which developed a seminal BBC2 technology series The Net. A project which, along with my interactive work, got me fully hooked on the cultural applications of technology. I also spent a good deal of time working on a variety of other BBC2, Channel 4 and Arts Council projects, some of which are listed to the right.