Littman, Stephen
Stephen Littman is an artist, visual theatre documentalist and academic based at University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham; he has been involved in the organisatiion of festivals such as Video Positive, National Review of Live Art (Video) and was a member of the LVA management committee from 1980 to 1987 running the screening programmes and technical workshops.
His work has ranged from lyrical narrative to strict structural investigations of the language and form of video – but often introducing a redeeming touch of the absurd. He was a pioneer of using video wall technology, installing and curating a range of works for the Video Positive festival in Liverpool in 1989.
He recently curated the screening programme for the 2007 NRLA at the Tramway Gallery, Glasgow.
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Stephen Littman
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Videography:
1979
Mirror
Please Turn Over …To1980
Crisps
Water, Noise Shape & Pattern
You Make Me Shout1981
Still Life No 1 (3 screen installation with Zoe Redman)1982
Venezualen Sequence1983
The Smoker Tapes
Mother-Son (2 screen)1984
The Opposition (with Margo Random)
I Really
The Long Search for the Necessary Tool (with Jeremy Peyton-Jones)1985
Surfing on the Short Waves (2 screen)
The Winner1987
In The Name of the Gun
Smile 2 (6 screen installation, first exhibited at Brighton Polytechnic)1989
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (3 screen)1990
Big Time – The House (19.4.90 Television Interventions C4)
The Enlightenment (4 screen)1997
Predator Cat, Selfish Diva2002
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