News
10/09/2010 TRUE FICTIONS & SCHLIMAZELTOV! @ 1ST ANNUAL HACKNEY FILM FESTIVAL
Our epic live cinema show returns to London for a special one-off performance as part of the 1st Annual Hackney Festival! We will be presenting True Fictions in a stripped back fashion at the venue The Others in Stoke Newington at around 9pm on Saturday 18th. Along side this rare live performance, Christopher Thomas Allen’s short film Schlimazeltov! will also be screening at the Rio Cinema in Dalston on the Saturday afternoon as part of the festival – program starts at 3.45pm. Come down an support the local east end talent!
30/07/2010 Talk & Workshop @ Semi-Permanent New Zealand
The Light Surgeons founder & director Christopher Thomas Allen will be presenting our work at the Semi-Permanent design conference in Auckland in New Zealand which is from 20th to the 21nd of August. It’s The Light Surgeons first outing in New Zealand so we’re very excited and honoured to be invited to present our work at this very prestigious design and moving image event along side many other talented international speakers. He will also be leading a workshop with AUT university students to create the visuals for the Semi-After Party and will be presenting his own audio-visual set there along side lots of home grown musical talent. Check the website for more info.
21/07/2010 WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE!!
Welcome to our new website! It’s been a hot few weeks of WordPress hell here in the Surgery! But basically we’ve been re-building the site to make it easier to find stuff. There’s currently well over 60 different project posts covering film, installation, performance and artwork from almost 15 years of work now… We hope you enjoy the site if you are a new visitor or find it more user-friendly if you’ve been before… There’s a lot of nice new features: Visual menus which make it easier to browse our projects and a simple concertina menu system to refine your searches. Easy links to all our favorite social networks and channels on Vimeo and Youtube. A special new “in Development” category where we will be announcing new projects that are in the pipeline along with ones we hope to get off the ground and may require your help! We’ve also decided to add an “Art” or “Commercial” colour code to the site and you can toggle between these global categories at the top right hand corner of the site – allowing you to view all of our work from either perspective. So – we hope you enjoy the site and please subscribe to our newsletter to keep up to date on all things Light Surgeons. Be sure to watch this space as new work will be added on a regular basis now we promise!
Many, many thanks to Olivier Ruellet for all his hard work re-building the site and our new intern Miglena Minkova for being a wordpress trooper in the studio.
18/06/2010 LATE EVENT @ MUSEUM OF LONDON / FRIDAY 25TH 6-9PM
To celebrate the London Festival of Architecture The Light Surgeons are hosting a special late event at the Museum of London on Friday 25th of June from 6-9pm, enterance is free! Come and see our new installation LDN24, enjoy a drink and explore the new Gallieries of Modern London after hours. Should be a exciting evening of bingo, film, music and visual art.
10/06/2010 LDN24 TALK @ THE MUSEUM OF LONDON / SUNDAY 13TH – 1PM
Our new media art commission “LDN24″ for the Sackler Hall at the Museum of London is now open to the public and its FREE! So please go down and check it out along with all the other exhibits in the newly re-opened modern galleries. We are giving a special talk at 1pm on Sunday the 13th in the Museum’s cinema space about the ideas and processes that went into making the peice. More info about that can be found here.
01/06/2010 D&AD AWARDS 2010
The Light Surgeons are very proud to be performing live visuals for the D&AD Awards event in London’s Roundhouse on the 3rd of June. We have created special visual content for the event exploring the “tool’s of the trade” for this most prestigous of events in the design and advertising calendar. Full documentation here.
27/04/2010 LDN24 @ THE MUSEUM OF LONDON
We are very proud to announce that our new installation LDN24 for the Sackler Hall at The Museum of London will open to the public on the 28th of May, along with the re-opening of the museums Galleries of Modern London.
20/04/2010 EYE CANDY @ THE BROOKLYN BOWL
A New York state of mind? Chief Surgeon Chris Allen will be throwing down an audio visual assault state side on April 22nd with a special visit to the Brooklyn Bowl‘s Eye Candy for Strangers night supported by the lovely people at Vimeo.
23/03/2010 DOCDAYS @ THE CERZON: RIP! A REMIX MANIFESTO
Christopher Thomas Allen will be giving a brief talk about The Light Surgeons various exploits in sample culture on Sunday 28th March at the HMV Curzon Cinema in Wimbledon before a screening of Brett Gaylor’s excellent documentary: RIP! A Remix Manifesto. If you haven’t seen this movie it’s a must see. The event is organised by Mercury Media.
08/03/2010 SCHLIMAZELTOV! @ SXSW – AUSTIN
We’re very proud to announce that Light Surgeons founder Christopher Allen’s short film Schilmazeltov! is part of the official selection for this years SXSW Film festival in Austin Texas. This is the second year running that he’s had his film work screened there and this time he will be heading over to represent himself. If you’re heading along to the festival Schilmazeltov! is screening as part of the Global SX shorts program on Sunday 14th and Tuesday 16th of March.
