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Talk & Workshop @ Semi-Permanent New Zealand

Chris Allen — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:58:17 +0000

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.

WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE!!

Chris Allen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:18:36 +0000

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.

LATE EVENT @ MUSEUM OF LONDON / FRIDAY 25TH 6-9PM

Chris Allen — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:16:22 +0000

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.

LDN24 TALK @ THE MUSEUM OF LONDON / SUNDAY 13TH – 1PM

Chris Allen — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:10:57 +0000

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.

D&AD AWARDS 2010

Chris Allen — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:09:57 +0000

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.

LDN24 @ THE MUSEUM OF LONDON

Chris Allen — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:08:02 +0000

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.

EYE CANDY @ THE BROOKLYN BOWL

Chris Allen — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:31:57 +0000

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.

DOCDAYS @ THE CERZON: RIP! A REMIX MANIFESTO

Chris Allen — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:04:42 +0000

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.

SCHLIMAZELTOV! @ SXSW – AUSTIN

Chris Allen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:05:55 +0000

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.

RETROSPECTIVE @ BYDESIGN – SEATTLE

Chris Allen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:03:30 +0000

The Northwest film forum‘s moving image festival Bydesign is screening an hour long retrospective program of The Light Surgeons moving image projects from the past ten years. The screening takes place at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle on March 6th. More info here.