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Stuart’s 3D3 doctoral research aims to gain an understanding through practice of the ways in which specificities of materiality and expanded presentation contexts produce an embodied and/or immersive experience for the audience through manifesting memory in the present.
His research concerns the ways in which the filmmaker relates and responds to their raw material and its subsequent status as rushes or personal archive: the memory of the act of filming, the ‘memories’ captured indexically in the film, and the filmmaker’s ongoing awareness of the presence of the physical artefacts of the ‘unfinished work’. The project’s focus is the material’s relationship to remembering, and the investigation of whether the viewing experience is enhanced by expanded presentation, making it feel ‘more like memory’.
Stuart is a filmmaker and sound artist who uses digital and film-based technologies to make single, multiple and immersive screen works. His research investigates our relationship to place, exploring landscape and the environmental tensions of urban regeneration and expansion. His work is shown worldwide across public, gallery and online spaces, with recent screenings at FACT, Furtherfield, and in the USA, Germany, Poland, and Australia.
Practice outcomes include the 2010 Super 8 film Sea Front, which won the London Short Film Festival Trick of the Light Award for its outstanding cinematography, and the trophy for the best Independent Film at the Media Innovation Awards. He won the Artists’ Moving Image Award commission from Plymouth Arts Centre in 2011, to create a film exploring the built environment of Plymouth city centre, funded by the Arts Council and South West Screen (UK Film Council). Stuart co-curated Welcome to the Treasuredome, a weekend of artists' moving image and animation presented in a 24m diameter immersive dome with surround sound for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
He is a co-founder and partner of Sundog Media, the creative media production company responsible for award-winning short films such as Heaven is a Place (2014), a collaboration with LGBT communities in Plymouth for the EU Cultural Programme, and The Other CO2 Problem, which won the 2009 Bill Bryson Prize for Science Communication awarded by The Royal Society of Chemistry. He is an Associate Lecturer in Media Arts with Plymouth University and an associate member of the Moving Image Arts (MIA) research group.
His research concerns the ways in which the filmmaker relates and responds to their raw material and its subsequent status as rushes or personal archive: the memory of the act of filming, the ‘memories’ captured indexically in the film, and the filmmaker’s ongoing awareness of the presence of the physical artefacts of the ‘unfinished work’. The project’s focus is the material’s relationship to remembering, and the investigation of whether the viewing experience is enhanced by expanded presentation, making it feel ‘more like memory’.
Stuart is a filmmaker and sound artist who uses digital and film-based technologies to make single, multiple and immersive screen works. His research investigates our relationship to place, exploring landscape and the environmental tensions of urban regeneration and expansion. His work is shown worldwide across public, gallery and online spaces, with recent screenings at FACT, Furtherfield, and in the USA, Germany, Poland, and Australia.
Practice outcomes include the 2010 Super 8 film Sea Front, which won the London Short Film Festival Trick of the Light Award for its outstanding cinematography, and the trophy for the best Independent Film at the Media Innovation Awards. He won the Artists’ Moving Image Award commission from Plymouth Arts Centre in 2011, to create a film exploring the built environment of Plymouth city centre, funded by the Arts Council and South West Screen (UK Film Council). Stuart co-curated Welcome to the Treasuredome, a weekend of artists' moving image and animation presented in a 24m diameter immersive dome with surround sound for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
He is a co-founder and partner of Sundog Media, the creative media production company responsible for award-winning short films such as Heaven is a Place (2014), a collaboration with LGBT communities in Plymouth for the EU Cultural Programme, and The Other CO2 Problem, which won the 2009 Bill Bryson Prize for Science Communication awarded by The Royal Society of Chemistry. He is an Associate Lecturer in Media Arts with Plymouth University and an associate member of the Moving Image Arts (MIA) research group.