About

I’m a UK artist, filmmaker and independent curator, working across film and video, photography, printmaking and social media.

I attempt to activate the critical potential of moving images for narrative and spatial recombination, or as channels for acts of memory and participation. I’m trying to explore a notion of Cinema 4.0 - future possibilities of moving images as unique mutations of material, site, and social productive relations.  My work tends to blend analogue and digital media with still and moving images, or dead and alive apparatus. I try to question the archival instinct, and think about our human urge to hoard and remix media fragments.

Aside from my practice I work with other institutions and artists on organizing, documentation, advice and selection for exhibition, research or screening projects. I’m a senior lecturer at Manchester School of Art.   In 2000-02 I operated as Pharmakon (VJ & music-video) producing clips and gigs with Lord Mongo, unplugboy, Illuminati and Disco Operating System.  From 1997-2000 I was member of Whitecube space-prog-noise collective.

Get in touch:  dave_griff@me.com

Grants / Awards / Commissions / Consultancy

>> 2011  Commission, Film & Video Umbrella

>> 2010 Premio Pablo del Amo, Best Editing, Semana del Cine Experimental de Madrid

>> 2010  Best Film, Swedenborg Short Film Festival

>> 2010   Commission, MIRIAD

>> 2010   Independent Curator, Cornerhouse/AND

>> 2009   Commission, g39 / Arts Council Wales

>> 2008   Festival Grant, North West Vision & Media

>> 2007   Invitational Project, OUTPOST

>> 2006   Silver Award, Impakt, Utrecht

>> 2005   Commission, StoryRooms, MIRIAD

>> 2004   Purescreen Consultancy, Castlefield Gallery

>> 2003   Production Grant, Arts Council England

>> 2003   Best Experimental Film, Exposures, Manchester

Papers / Talks

>> 2011    Show and Tell for Sendai, Future Everything 2011

>> 2011    Remix Cinema, Oxford Internet Institute

>> 2010    Media Lab, Manchester School of Art

>> 2005    Islington Mill Art Academy, Salford, UK

>> 2005    Cue-Dot Cinema, Sonic Arts Network, UK

>> 2004    Aesthetics of Fear, Security Bytes, U. of Lancaster