The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) is the first international peer-reviewed scholarly publication devoted to artists’ film and video, and its contexts. It offers a forum for debates surrounding all forms of artists’ moving image and media artworks: films, video installations, expanded cinema, video performance, experimental documentaries, animations, and other screen-based works made by artists. MIRAJ aims to consolidate artists’ moving image as a distinct area of study that bridges a number of disciplines, not limited to, but including art, film, and media.
Special Issue: 50 Years of UK Artist’s Film and Video
Table of Content – MIRAJ Volume 6 Issues 1 & 2
Editorial: Points of orientation
ARTICLES
Cinema 66–8: The original London film-makers – Henry K. Miller
History, landscape, nation: British independent film and video in the 1970s and 1980s – Collin Perry
Unfamiliarity and difference: The challenges of supporting arts activity in a new medium – Julia Knight
The Video Show: A Festival of Independent Video – Ed Webb-Ingall
In search of lost time: Cordelia Swann, the 1980s and the use of history – Claire M. Holdsworth
From Reel to Real – an epilogue: Feminist politics and materiality at the London Filmmakers’ Co-operative – Maud Jacquin
Systems and constraints: Contexts for a British cinema of ‘intentional limitation’ – Federico Windhausen
The trajectory of Afterimage – Nicolas Helm-Grovas
Spotlight on Hull: Time-based art on the margins – Emily Wilczek
Discoveries in the biscuit tin: The role of archives and collections in the history of artists’ moving image in Scotland – Sarah Neely
Inside media: Shifts in spectatorship through the ICA’s videotheque and cinematheque – Lucy Bayley
FEATURES
Long-form experimental film and the BFI Production Board – William Fowler
Work towards a new … aims & objectives – Cinenova Working Group
Roundtable discussion: London Video Arts – David Critchley, Terry Flaxton, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Katharine Meynell, Jeremy Welsh and Catherine Elwes
June Givanni in conversation with Onyeka Igwe, ICA, June 2017 – June Givanni and Onyeka Igwe
History lessons, learning outcomes and medium specificity: Teaching artists’ moving image in higher education – Matthew Noel-Tod
Through the looking glass: Artists’ moving image and the LUX Associate Artists Programme – Maria Palacios Cruz
Lux et Umbra: On the slow rise and fast fall of the Lux Centre – Benjamin Cook
Roundtable discussion: The Volcano generation: London film groups in the 1990s – David Leister, Duncan Reekie, Jennet Thomas, Steven Eastwood, Philip Ilson and Tai Shani
Artists’ dialogues – Transnational exchanges – Nooshin Farhid, Judy Rabinowitz Price and Alia Syed
REVIEW ARTICLES
Here Is Information: Mobilise. Selected writings by Ian White, Mike Sperlinger (ed.) (2016) – Conal McStravick
‘In the bloody basement again’ – three observations about British conceptual and structural film – David Curtis
Mediatized memories in Mark Leckey’s Dream English Kid 1964–1999 AD (2015) – Sarah Durcan
The Performance of Trauma in Moving Image Art, Dirk de Bruyn (2014) – Maria Walsh
In memoriam Stuart Croft (1970–2015) – Steven Eastwood
Michael O’Pray: A personal recollection in fragments – Lucy Reynolds
