In Dialogue: Malcolm Le Grice and Sebastian Buerkner (in 3D)

Malcolm Le Grice studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art but began to make film, video and computer works in the mid 1960’s. He has shown in major international exhibitions including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Louvre Museum and Tate Modern. His films and videos are in collections at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Royal Belgian Film Archive, the National Film Library of Australia, the German Cinamatheque Archive and the Archives du Film Experimental D’Avignon. A number of longer films have been transmitted on British TV, including Finnegans Chin, Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy and Chronos Fragmented. Le Grice has written critical and theoretical work including a history of experimental cinema Abstract Film and Beyond (1977, Studio Vista and MIT). For three years in the 1970’s he wrote a regular column for the art monthly Studio International and has published numerous other articles on film, video and digital media. Many of these have been collected as an anthology under the title Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age by the British Film Institute (2001). Le Grice is a Professor Emeritus of the University of the Arts London where he is a collaborating director with David Curtis of the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection.

Having developed his creative practice from a painting background, Sebastian Buerkner creatively experiments with the medium of animation, combining cutting-edge digital technology with layered, abstract imagery. As an animator, the artist has exhibited widely internationally with recent solo shows at Kunsthaus Nuremberg; Tramway, Glasgow; Sketch, London; The Showroom Gallery, London; Whitechapel Project Space; London and LUX at Lounge Gallery, London, as well as group shows and screenings at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, Whitechapel Gallery, Kunsthalle Wien and more. He was shortlisted for the Jarman Award in 2014. Winner of the Tiger Award for Short Film at the 2014 Rotterdam Film Festival, The Chimera of M. was also nominated in the short film category of the 2014 European Film Awards.

Lucy Reynolds has lectured and published extensively, most particularly focused on questions of the moving image, feminism, political space and collective practice. She runs the MRES: Art: Moving Image, a research based MA devoted to the study of artists moving image at Central St Martins, in association with LUX.