Susan Collins

Interview for BBC Radio 4 Today programme 29/12/22

I was delighted to be invited to be interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme which was broadcast on 29 December (2022). Sir Jeremy Fleming (Director of GCHQ) was Today’s guest editor for the day and the interview was prompted by his interest in the…

Dell Quay

Dell Quay is a new site specific work commissioned for Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 12 November 2022 – 23rd April 2023…

Art Whatever It Takes – Interview for Rome Art Programme

Following a research visit to the British School at Rome in summer 2022 I was interviewed by the Rome Art Programme for their series “Art Whatever it takes”. You can read the full interview on the Rome Art programme website here.…

The Lives of Net Art – film by Mind The Film

A discussion about Tate in Space (2002) is included in this short film, made by Mind The Film for Tate as part of the Reshaping The Collectible research project about internet art works and the care and curation they require. It features interviews with myself,…

Current

From September 2020, for nine months, an underwater network camera was installed in Aigio, Greece looking out to sea.…

Print from Five Hours Later now available on Vide Atelier

I’m happy to announce that Boston Harbour, 20th April 2020 at 22:55pm is now available to buy as a limited edition print on Vide Atelier! You can find out more and purchase it at videatelier.org/…

Salon for a Speculative Future

Delighted to be included in the book “Salon for a Speculative Future” alongside seventy-five extraordinary women artists and in celebration of a host of exceptional women and their achievements.…

Five Hours Later

From the end of March 2019, until the end of July 2020, the view from Boston Harbour and the view across Sheffield towards Park Hill and the Cholera Monument were transmitted live via network cameras simultaneously. Initially intended to run for a year the work…

Open Studio at the Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU

Please join me on Monday 1st April 12:00-2:00pm for an Open Studio to mark the end of my month-long residency at the Academy of Visual Arts HKBU Kai Tak Campus.…

Tate in Space featured in workshop at Tate Modern 4th April 2019

Tate in Space (2002) is being featured as part of Lives of Net Art a workshop at Tate Modern taking place on 4th April 2019 exploring the possibilities the internet opened up for artists in the 1990s and 2000s, and how artists, curators and conservators…

Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House, London

Some prints from my LAND (2017) series have been included in the exhibition,Beyond Boundaries, which opened on 12 March and continues until 2 April 2019.…

Artist-in-Residence at the Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU

Delighted to be in Hong Kong from 4 March – 2 April 2019 making and imagining new works on paper as an Artist-in-Residence at the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA), HKBU.…

Zainul Award 2018

I was deeply honoured to be invited to Dhaka in December 2018 to receive the prestigious Zainul Award from the Faculty of Fine Art, Dhaka University, Bangladesh.…

LAND in Borders at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago

Three large format prints from LAND (2017) were included in BORDERS, which took place at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago from the 5th October – 25th November 2018. LAND reveals an image constructed pixel by pixel over 12 hours continuously from a camera…

LAND in Collaborators 5 ‘The Hand of the Artist’ at Roaming Room

A large print from LAND (2017) will be included in Roaming Room’s Collaborators 5: The Hand of the Artist, a group exhibition with work by 35 artists opening on 8th September and continuing until 23rd. LAND reveals an image constructed pixel by pixel over 12…

Introducing Edgework

A selection of my landscape, seascape and cityscape prints are included in Layla Curtis’ recently launched artist-led initiative Edgework, an online store and multidisciplinary journal with a focus on place. Go to www.edgework.co.uk for more information on Edgework and the artists and artworks. You can…

Glenlandia in Women at Threshold artspace

11 Oct 2017 – 8 Mar 2018 Glenlandia is included in Women at Threshold artspace. Women, curated by Iliyana Nedkova, is a survey of 60 artists’ films and limited editions by 40 women artists from 20 countries featured in the Horsecross Arts collection of contemporary…

LAND

2016-17 In October 2016 a network camera was installed on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem looking east across the West Bank towards the Jordanian Mountains, a deeply historic and biblical landscape that has been written about and referenced over millennia. It is also an extremely complicated and…

Essex Road III at Tintype Gallery

9 December 2016 – 14 January 2017 Wild Life is one of eight short films commissioned by Tintype Gallery for Essex Road III. Each artist was invited to make a work in response to the Essex Road, a mile long stretch of road in Islington,…

Technology is Not Neutral

At Phoenix Brighton as part of the Brighton Digital Festival 2 – 26 September 2016 and at Watermans 4 November 2016 – 8 January 2017 Photo courtesy Matthew Jarvis Prints from Fenlandia (2004-5) and moving images from Wembury & Woolacombe (2015-6) are included in this…

Wembury & Woolacombe

2015-16 Wembury & Woolacombe revealed views from the North and South Coasts of Devon simultaneously, live, and in real time. Commissioned by the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (RAMM) for the exhibition ‘Whatever the Weather’ (November 2015- April 2016). RAMM was keen to commission twin…

The Small Infinite at the John Hansard Gallery

5 August – 20 September 2014 Prints from the Seascape series are included in this group exhibition, curated by Lanfranco Aceti with Vince Dziekan, which celebrates the miniscule. Other artists include Mark Amerika, Bill Balaskas, Tim Head, Henriette Heise, John Latham, Mark Lewis. More information…

Bodies of Water, Screening at Royal West of England Academy

Saturday 3 May 2014 Love Brid was included in this programme of artists’ moving image curated by Kayla Parker for The Power of the Sea exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (5 April to 6 July 2014) For more information please click…

The Negligent Eye at the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

8 March – 15 June 2014 Prints from London 2013 and a live version of London 2014 were included in this group show which explored the scanned image curated by Jo Stockham. Other artists included Cory Arcangel, Christiane Baumgartner, Helen Chadwick, Nicky Coutts, Imogen Stidworthy,…

Selected Animated Photography Films at The Photographers’ Gallery

Thursday 20 February 2014 at 7pm Love Brid was shown in this programme of short animated films from the Animate Collection, curated by Gary Thomas, that use or reference photography and the hyperreal.…

Transporting Skies – Inaugural Professorial Lecture

Tuesday 4 February 2014 at 6.30pm Susan Collins’ Inaugural Professorial Lecture at University College London Listen to the podcast here:…

Brighter Later

2013 Brighter Later, was a temporary light installation commissioned for the Radcliffe Observatory at Green Templeton College as part of Tracing Venus, the University of Oxford’s Public Art Programme for the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. Inspired by the Radcliffe Observatory’s prominent role in the history of…

It’s About Time at ASC Gallery, London

2 November – 21 December 2013 I have made a new pixelscape work, London 2013, for this group show in ASC Gallery, London curated by Christina Niederberger and Paul Carey-Kent.…

London 2013 and London 2014

2013 – 2014 London 2013 – and 2014 – reveal the view from Christina Niederberger’s studio on the 8th floor of ASC Studios’ Erlang House looking north over London’s newly emerging skyline. The images were constructed a pixel a second from top left to the…

Arte y Óptica at Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru

9 May – 18 August 2013 Glenlandia was included in “Art and optics: The Speed of Communication” an international group exhibition curated by Sean Cubitt. Please click here for more information on the exhibition and here for images from the opening…

Possession at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

14 March – 26 May 2013 “7 Days in June” a 10.5m long, floor based print work from my Seascape Series is included in this international group exhibition curated by Brian Curtin and Steve Dutton…

Article on In Conversation published in Kunstbeeld

Kunstbeeld #9-2012 www.kunstbeeld.nl Writer and theorist Reba Westdorp wrote an article on In Conversation 1997-2001 “Een on- en offline rollenspel” which has won her this year’s Kunstbeeld thesis prize.…

Inter Sections: Science in Contemporary Art at the Weizmann Institute, Israel

22 September – 7 December 2012 One of my large Seascape prints is included in this exhibition about meeting points between science and art at the David Lopatie Conference Centre at the Weizmann Institute of Science curated by Cathy Wills. Included are 60 works by…

Moby Dick Big Read

16 September 2012 – One of my Seascapes will be accompanying a chapter of Moby Dick as part of the Moby Dick Big Read A cast of 270 people including Tilda Swinton, Simon Callow, Sir David Attenborough, Stephen Fry, Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as community…

Seascape at Osterwalder’s Art Office, Hamburg

9 September 2012 – 31 January 2013 A solo show of prints from the Seascape archive are showing in Hamburg at Osterwalder’s Art Office…

Excavation

2012 Susan Collins has made two new works in response to Medieval Harewood at Harewood House, Leeds Excavation (part I), installed in All Saints Church, is a film sequence, projected on to the floor, showing an archaeologist’s hand gouging earth with a trowel during the…

Love Brid in Welcome to the Treasuredome

Friday 10 and Saturday 11 August 2012 Love Brid has been included in ‘Welcome to the Treasuredome’, an Artists’ moving image festival at ICCI 360 curated by Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker on behalf of ICCI (Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries) with Plymouth…

Love Brid on Canary Wharf Screen

June – August 2012 Love Brid has been included in an Animate Projects programme of films, Move on Up, screening at Canary Wharf station from June to August 2012. The Move on Up programme is a selection from the Animate Collection of dynamic, exciting, uplifting,…

Born in 1987: The Animated GIF at The Photographer’s Gallery

19 May – 1 July 2012 An Animated GIF from the opening sequence of Love Brid is currently screening on ‘The Wall’ at the all new Photographers’ Gallery. ‘The Wall’ is a flat screen video wall hosting the Gallery’s new digital programme. ‘Born in 1987:…

Found Footage: Whitechapel

14 October – 20 November 2011 ‘Found Footage: Whitechapel’ is a solo show at the Idea Store Whitechapel project space and the latest in a series of animated works constructed entirely from still digital photographs, which play on the relationship between the still and moving…

Transitio_MX 04: Collateral Affections, Mexico City

30 September – 9 October 2011 Susan Collins’ Glenlandia archive will be showing in the Transitio Festival, Mexico City alongside works by a range of artists working with new media including Jim Campbell, Woody and Steina Vasulka and Julien Maire.…

Uncontainable: Broken Stillness at ISEA 2011 Istanbul

14 – 21 September 2011 Showing the Glenlandia archive in this exhibition alongside works by boredomresearch, David Cotterrell, Sigune Hamann, Peter Hardie, Tim Head and Susan Sloan. Uncontainable: Broken Stillness is an exhibition supported as part of ISEA 2011 Istanbul and is also part of…

Songs of The Sea at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland

21 July – 30 October 2011 Prints from Seascape and a new pixel by pixel live feed from Sunderland’s Roker Beach webcam is being included in the exhibition Songs of the Sea at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland. Through artists’ work, archive ships’ logs and…

Time Landscapes at the Electronic Village Galleries

15 April 2011 – The Harewood archive is included in a collection of work, Time Landscapes, curated by Beryl Graham for Electronic Village Galleries a pilot project developed by artist Kate Southworth…

Here and There: Site Specific Works and Networked Environments

27 – 31 March 2011 2011 Clemens Nathan Master Class in Multidisciplinary Art Lecture and seminar series at Shenkar College, Tel Aviv, Israel…

Broken Stillness at Salisbury Art Centre

10 March – 21 April 2011 Showing the Glenlandia archive in this exhibition alongside works by boredomresearch, Sigune Hamann, Peter Hardie, Tim Head and Susan Sloan…

Several Interruptions

24 January – 17 April 2011 An exhibition celebrating 15 years of the Slade Centre of Electronic Media in Fine Art http://scemfa.org/15 Martin John Callanan, Susan Collins, Thomson & Craighead, Simon Faithfull, Tim Head, Melanie Jackson, Brighid Lowe.…

Under The Same Sky, Susan Collins & Tuksina Pipitkul, Bangkok University Gallery, Thailand

July 23 – August 20, 2010 An exhibition of work coming out of Tuksina Piptkul’s residency in the UK and Susan Collins’s residency in Thailand as ASEM DUO Thailand 2010 exchange fellows. Both artists work with similar subjects: landscape, sky, sea from very different perspectives.…

Twenty-One at Harewood House

3 July – 19 September 2010 To celebrate its 21st anniversary Harewood have invited 21 artists who have exhibited there to respond to the collections, throwing new light on objects, themes and locations selected by them across the House and Gardens. Norman Ackroyd, Sutapa Biswas,…

Common Links at New Greenham Arts

7 – 24 June 2010 A print from the Silicon Valley version of Fenlandia has been included in Common Links, an exhibition organised as part of the 10th Anniversary of the re-opening of Greenham Common since its military occupation during the cold war period. The…

Field Broadcast

8 – 16 May 2010 PROJECKT presents Field Broadcast as part of Wysing Arts Contemporary Presents 33 artists will broadcast live; Bram Thomas Arnold, Ed Atkins, Dave Ball and Oliver Walker, Christopher Bassford and Jonathan Ryall, Richard Bevan, Sara Bjarland, Martin John Callanan, Susan Collins,…

Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective – book launch and exhibition at Black Dog Space, London

8 March – 16 April 2010 To celebrate the release of Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective, by Paul Coldwell and published by Black Dog Publishing, Black Dog Space is pleased to present the work of 13 contemporary artists. The work on display presents some of the…

ETC, revue de l’art actuel 88

issue 88 (Déc 2009 – Fev 2010) Susan Collins interviewed by Sarah Cook in…

Love Brid at Tate Modern

Thursday 3 December 2009, 18.30 Love Brid is being screened as part of an evening of selected films commissioned and produced by Animate Projects over the past year including work by Cordelia Swann, Sarah Wood, Thomas Hicks, Petra Freeman, Andrew Kötting, Susan Collins, Kayla Parker…

Fórum A&T-Perspectivas Críticas em Arte e Tecnologia Sergio Motta Institute, São Paulo, Brazil

3 and 4 November 2009 The Sergio Motta Institute is hosting the International Art and Technology Forum-Critical Perspectives on Art and Technology on November 3rd and 4th 2009 at the Brazilian British Center, in São Paulo, Brazil. Keynote speakers are: Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica, Austria),…

Channel at Millais Gallery Off-Site Projects, Southampton

29 October 2009 – 30 January 2010 Millais Off-Site Projects, Sir James Matthews Building, Southampton Solent University Two prints from Seascape will be showing as part of this group show at Millais Off-Site Projects in Southampton along with work by other artists including Andrew Cross,…

SHIFT Electronic Arts Festival, Basel

22 – 25 October 2009 The Spectrascope will be showing from 22 – 25 October 2009 as part of SHIFT 2009 Electronic Arts Festival in Basel, Switzerland. This years festival is exploring: Magic. Tech-Evocations and Assumptions of Paranormal Realities. Susan Collins will be giving an…

Love Brid

2009 Love Brid is one of three short films commissioned by Animate Projects as part of Sea Change. It is an animated postcard, a loving tribute to the timeless charms of the seaside, and a colourful rollercoaster ride through the coastal town of Bridlington (Brid)…

Multiplicity – From Faim de siècle to Polymorchive at Osterwalder’s Art Office, Hamburg

19 September – 17 October 2009 Editions by gallery artists Susan Collins / Shezad Dawood / Vanessa Grannum / Tim Head / David Neat…

Landscape 2.0 at Edith-Ruß-Haus, Oldenberg and Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen

29 August – 15 November 2009 The Glenlandia archive and prints from the Fenlandia series will be showing as part of “Landscape 2.0” an exhibition staged jointly by the Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art , Oldenburg and the Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen in Germany.…

KURS: SØEN – The Lake Show, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum

16 August – 25 October 2009 Prints and a live feed from Harewood, are showing as part of The Lake Show at the Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark…

Seascape extended

until 12th August The live transmissions from the five Seascape cameras to the Seascape website were originally intended to finish today, 20th July. Due to popular demand this has now been extended until Wednesday 12th August at which point the site will switch to an…

Town and Country, Project Space Leeds

22 July – 19 September 2009 Harewood, Susan Collins’ live pixel by pixel feed from Harewood House will be included in this exhibition at PSL, showing a continually updating image of Harewood’s ‘Capability’ Brown landscape playing on parallels between the mechanically composed digital image and…

Seascape the book

Charting the span of Susan Collins’ Seascape, from its earliest online manifestations to its gallery exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, a publication on the Seascape project has been produced by Film and Video Umbrella. The book features newly commissioned essays by…

Fourth Door Review no 8

Susan Collins in conversation with Sean Cubitt in the new issue of Fourth Door Review no 8 Hall of Risk. Also features on artists, Chris Drury and Jem Finer; musicians David Sylvian and Harold Budd, and a special feature on the Alpine regional architectural culture…

Komm, wir gehen in den Wald! at Westwerk, Hamburg

18 – 26 April 2009 Susan Collins, Bertolt Hering, Heilwig Jacob, Ralf Jurszo, Thomas Kabelitz, Stefan Prehn, Carsten Rabe und Sabina Simons…

Seascape

2009 A solo show presenting a new body of work by Susan Collins 4 April – 14 June 2009, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea SEASCAPE consists of a series of gradually unfolding digital seascapes created using imagery captured by webcams installed at five key coastal…

Silicon Fen – the book

Silicon Fen A record of a long-running visual arts project that took place at venues across the east of England between 2004 and 2007, Silicon Fen considers how landscape in general (and the East Anglian landscape in particular) has been both affected and reflected by…

Slow Fields, Susan Collins and Tim Head at Osterwalder’s Art Office, Hamburg

13 September – 1 November 2008 above left, Tim Head ‘Dust Flowers’, 2008; above right, Susan Collins ‘Fenlandia, 25th March 2005’ Through their parallel working practices Tim Head and Susan Collins explore the properties of digital media in distinct and inventive ways. Susan Collins’ recent…

Music for the Williamson Tunnels

September 2008 A short audio excerpt of the sound of dripping water – originally used as part of an installation in the Woolwich Foot Tunnel in 1993, has been included in this Audio double-CD. A limited edition (1000) compilation by Alan Dunn and Jeff Young…

Travelogue at One in the Other

5 September – 5 October 2008 New work from the Harewood series will be showing as part of Travelogue Anna Barham, Susan Collins, Nadine Feinson, Joan Key, Charlotte Moth Curated by Sotiris Kyriacou…

Committed to Print at Northern Print

22 August to 25 October 2008 A set of three prints large format archival digital inkjet print derived from the Pixelscape for Glastonbury Tor archive were produced with the Centre for Fine Print Research in Bristol in 2007 and are currently being exhibited in Committed…

Work and Play, Harewood House

9 August – 2 November 2008 In June 2008 a webcam was installed overlooking Harewood’s classical ‘Capability’ Brown landscape. The webcam is programmed to record images of the landscape over the course of a year and a series of digital prints have been produced with…

Harewood

2008 In June 2008 a webcam was installed overlooking Harewood House’s classical ‘Capability’ Brown landscape. The webcam is transmitting and recording images at the rate of a pixel a second so that a whole image represents the previous 21.33 hours. Each image is collected from…

Bow Quarter Art Annual

2-18 May 2008 Editioned prints from Fenlandia will be on show as part of the Bow Quarter Art Annual Gordon Cheung, Susan Collins, Nadine Feinson, Cassie Howard, Mustafa Hulusi, Max Hymes, Peter Liversidge, Liz Rideal, Robert Rush Curated by Sotiris Kyriacou…

Multiplicities at ARC Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria

15 December 2007 – 26 January 2008 Glenlandia is featured in Multiplicities, the first group exhibition at ARC Projects featuring half their current roster of sixteen artists – four based in the UK and four in Bulgaria. It is the first exhibition in a Sofia…

Chaser

2007 One of a series of contemporary artworks and illuminations commissioned for the GLOW ’07 festival Newcastle Gateshead. Chaser transforms the top windows of the Tyne Bridge Tower in Gateshead into a rapidly moving light circuit of intense colour. Visible across the river Tyne in…

The Nature of Systems at BFI Southbank

Saturday 10 November 2007 at 8:40pm Technological systems create, fragment and transform landscapes: a long video monitor stream, digitally mutated coastlines and strange urban microclimates introduce fascinating artificial worlds, blurring the boundaries between natural and constructed landscapes. Starting with documentation of Chris Meigh-Andrews’ video installation…

Video Vortex at Montevideo, The Netherlands Media Art Institute

20 October – 2 December 2007 The Spectrascope will be shown as part of Video Vortex at Montevideo/The Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam from The exhibition will also feature Fenlandia in the form of a 6 hour screening of the 4000 images which comprise…

WEBSCAPE – Art in The Virtual Landscape

September 28 – November 25 2007 Glenlandia is featured in an exhibition of web-based art installations at The Art Museum of West Zealand, Denmark 2007.…

Interface: Virtual Environments in Art, Design and Education, Dublin

6 – 7 September 2007 Interface: Virtual Environments in Art, Design and Education, Dublin Keynote Speakers: Susan Collins, Stahl Stenslie…

In Conversation in: The New Media Handbook, Digital Performance and From Technological to Virtual Art

A chapter on In Conversation is in The New Media Handbook, by Andrew Dewdney and Peter Ride (Routledge) and it is also discussed in Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation by Steve Dixon (MIT Press) and…

Glenlandia prints

A set of four limited edition prints from the Glenlandia archive are now available through Horsecross, Perth.…

Glenlandia in Outlook Express(ed) at Oakville Galleries

29 June to 26 August 2007 Outlook Express(ed), a three person show at Oakville Galleries, Gairloch Gardens, Oakville, Ontario, Canada Lois Andison, Susan Collins and David Rokeby Curated by Marnie Fleming…

CAe 2007 conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada

20 – 22 June 2007 Susan Collins to give Keynote Lecture, at CAe 2007 International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging, Banff, Alberta, Canada.…

Spectrascope extended

The Spectrascope – has been extended and will now remain online indefinitely.…

Garry B Fritz Imagemaker Award

Susan Collins was the recipient of the 2007 Garry B Fritz Imagemaker Award for Excellence at Look Out: Photography and the Worlds of Contemporary Art, SPE Miami…

Contemporary magazine Issue 91

profile by Davina Thackara in Contemporary magazine Issue 91…

digital landscape and nature-morte

Glenlandia and Fenlandia are discussed in Sean Cubitt’s paper digital landscape and nature-morte…

Interview with Carlo Zanni in Magazine électronique du CIAC

été 2006 Carlo Zanni interview with Susan Collins in Magazine électronique du CIAC No 25…

Text for A Directory of British Film & Video Artists 1996

In making work as a response to a given site or situation, the interactive pieces, usually audio and video, aim to engage the viewer in an inquiry or reinterpretation of their role within specific and often everyday contexts. The installations are an attempt to make…