Operatives
Staff
Alice Ceresole
Alice has worked at The Light Surgeons since 2004 as producer, studio manager and researcher as well as making creative contributions as a photographer. Before joining the surgery she worked in television, both in production as an AP in docs and in post production installing avids for Clear Cut Pictures. This background allows her to be flexible and adapt to the huge variety of work that TLS produce, from commercial projects to art led pieces, for one off events through to major installations.
Christopher Thomas Allen
Chris is the remaining founder and director of The Light Surgeons, he established the company with a group of friends while studying Media Design at Portsmouth University. His work crosses a diverse range of different media; from graphic design and photography, short films, music videos and art installations through to performing, producing and curating. He works on all aspects of projects as a producer, director and collaborating artist in his own right.
Tim Cowie
Tim is a full time creative at The Light Surgeons and has contributed to a wide range of different projects as an editor, animator, sound designer and director since 2004. During this time he has been a major collaborating artist on many of our live AV performances. He also works as an audio visual artist in his own right under the Audio Dependant name. More of his work can be found here: http://soundcloud.com/audio-dependent and at http://timcowie.com/
Affiliated Artists & Producers
Annie Kwan
Born in Singapore, Annie’s background is in theater and film production. She has worked as a production manager and producer at The Light Surgeons on numerous commercial and arts related projects from 2005 until the present.
Jude Greenaway
Born in London, Jude’s background is in fine art and animation. He has been a long time artistic collaborater at The Light Surgeons on a huge range of projects; from motion graphics, film direction, sound design and a major collaborator on many of our live audio live performances. He releases music under the name Scanone on various labels, including his own know as Yellow Machines. More of his moving image, sound design and composing work can be found here: http://www.judegreenaway.com/
James Price
James joined The Light Surgeons in 2000 and has contributed to a wide range of projects, as a camera op, editor and director, and as a collaborating artist on many installations and live audio-visual performance projects. After studying at the National Film and Television School he worked for several years with artist and film maker Lenka Clayton creating experimental documentaries for Channel4. He is now an independent filmmaker with his own production company Field Studies: http://www.field-studies.co.uk/
Tom Wall
Tom has directed various CGI animations for The Light Surgeons with his partner Luis De Jorge. Together they formed BlinkinLab, a moving image design collective in 2005 after graduating from London Guildhall University’s MA in Digital Moving Image.
Mark McRae
Born in London and now based in sunny southern Italy via a stint in Berlin, Mark is a prolific musician and composer who collaborated on our True Fictions live AV performance project. Website: http://markmcrae.co.uk/
Malcolm Litson
Based in London, Malcolm is an artist who’s work spans audio and visual mediums. He is a prolific audio producer working under the name Blipvert and also teaches audio engineering at a London University. Links: http://www.axisweb.org/artist/malcolmlitson
Helen Omand
Helen’s background is in documentary TV production. She is now studying art therapy at Goldsmiths and operates as a freelance artist, film maker, research producer and editor. She has worked on several short films, installation and AV performance projects since 2007. Her personal website can be found here: http://cargocollective.com/helenomand
Toby Harris
Toby is an audio visual artist who works under the name Spark from a studio in London. He has produced a huge amount of visual productions for arts and commercial clients and was the founder of AVIT, the community-led VJ festival that went worldwide. Website: http://sparkav.co.uk/
Mitchy Bwoy
A prolific graphic designer who is a music and culture obsessive. He tirelessly supports and communicates the best of what he feels contemporary life has to offer. Mitchy Bwoy’s vast portfolio of work spans music and clothing design but he continues to innovate & diversify. Website: http://mitchybwoy.com/
James George
James George is a media artist and programmer based in Brooklyn, New York. He has recently partnered with the Light Surgeons to implement bespoke software and generative visuals for the National Maritime Museum Voyager’s installation. He continues to explores a wide range of artistic and commercial projects in collaboration with media artist Karolina Sobecka through their innovative art and design studio Flightphase.
Website: http://www.jamesgeorge.org/
Ex-contributors
Andy Flywheel
Co-founder and a director at The Light Surgeons until 2001 when he left to pursue other work. Andy’s background in film was instrumental to the development of The Light Surgeons fusion of analogue visuals. He remains the grand master of the 16mm film loop.
Robert Pyecroft-Rainbow
An experienced artist who works with photographic, print and time-based processes. Themes of local-ness, community and accessibility are central to his practice and this influence has been central to many of the collaborative projects within The Light Surgeons over the past 10 years.
Brede Korsmo
A multi disciplinary artist with a background in graffiti and screen printing who has developed a rich multi-layered approach to digital moving image work. He has contributed to a wide range of different projects at The Light Surgeons over the past six years. Website: www.bredekorsmo.com
Luis De Jorge
Luis has directed various CGI animations for The Light Surgeons with his partner Tom Wall. Together they formed BlinkinLab, a moving image design collective in 2005 after graduating from London Guildhall University’s MA in Digital Moving Image. Luis left BlinkinLab in 2010 to pursue more independent film production and direction work. More of his projects can be viewed here.
Ben Allen
Born in London and based in New York City, Ben’s background is in music production. He has released several albums under the Dynamic Syncopation (DSP) name in the UK and contributed audio production work to various projects as well as collaborating on live AV performances.
Paul O’Connor
Paul is a founder member of The Light Surgeons and established it as a company in Dublin. He works as a photographer, graphic designer and video artist from his base on the west coast of Ireland through his company Judo Design. Link: http://www.pauloconnor.org
Andy Firman
Now based in Dublin, Andy works on technical production for a range of different live events. An original member of The Light Surgeons in the UK before migrating to Ireland, he is a talented artist who has worked on countless visual productions and specializes in field operations.
Becky Gates
Becky worked as a studio manger and production co-coordinator on a range of commercial and arts related projects between 1999 and 2003. She lives in London and works as a freelance events producer.
Nicola Godlieb
Nicola’s back ground is in fine art and she works as an illustrator and animator in London. She has contributed to several visual productions and short films at The Light Surgeons over the years and currently teaches animation at Hackney Community College.
Ben Tseng
Ben studied motion graphics at LCC before joining The Light Surgeons and working on several visual productions and film projects. He left in 2003 to study at Fabrica and now works in Shanghai at an advertising agency.
Nicola le Marquand
Nicola’s background is in fine art and sculpture. She worked as a studio and project manager at The Light Surgeons before emigrating to Austria to work in film production. She is also fondly remembered as “The Duchess”.
Yunus Akseki
Yunus joined The Light Surgeons after graduating from London College of Communication. He has worked on various projects as a designer, animator and web developer. He now runs his own creative communications agency Imperial Leisure from a space in Hoxton.
Mark Blackburn
Mark ‘Blackie’ Blackburn, the Earl of Mortlake, took a musical interlude from TLS and formed the downtempo outfit Kinobe in 1999. He now lives in Brighton, making pictures and playing records.
Martin Banks
A visual artist with a background in production for events and Vjing, his creative input to Light Surgeons includes film making and animation. He operates as a freelance designer and has recently finished working with dance film company State of Flux.
Olivier Ruellet
Olivier sadly passed away in New York in January 2011. He was a very kind and passionate artist who live and energy will live on in all those who knew him. He worked as a prolific multimedia artist and dedicated teacher with and had amassed an extensive knowledge of computer generated animation and creative use of programming. During our short time working with him he had contributed to several projects including the rebuilding of this website. He generated a wealth of different artworks and moving image projects which can be viewed on his website: Ctrl-N