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'Jenna Collins is amongst other things an audio and video artist. Currently developing an on-line documentary business idea. Currently producing weekly for www.artslab.net. Currently completing an M.A. in documentary film making.'

Greg Lock is an artist who is currently working at the Centre for Virtual Environments (Salford) as part of the Virtual Environments Technology Support programme (European Regional Development Fund)ERDF. He is also an associate artist with IDEA and a visiting lecturer at University College Chester and University of Salford. His qualifications include an MA in Creative Technology (University of Salford, 1998) and an MFA in Sculpture (Parson's School of Design, New York City, 1995). His work explores issues of augmented reality, physicality and perception of kinetic energy.

Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican have worked together as Brass Art on Group and Collaborative projects including :
Sept 1998
'Our Night at The Palace' at The Palace Hotel Manchester (Digital Summer and ISEA '98 )
Oct 1999 'Stalk' for Mart '99, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester
Nov 1999 'Dream Inspires' at OVE Arup, Manchester.
Publications-
'Our Night at The Palace' Trice publications, foreword Sean Cubitt
'Stalk'
Published by Manchester Metropolitan University, Fine Art Dept. Writers: Sue Hubbard and Tracey Sanders Wood
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Chara Lewis teaches BA Visual Art part time at Salford University
April-June 2000 Box Project, Museum of Installation, London, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
July 1999 local 02-banal ground, group show, Art and Media Centre, Adlershof Berlin.
Nov 1998 work purchased by Mag collection in 'Image Based Art in the 20th Century' on tour incl. Ferens Gallery, Hull and Fruitmarket, Edinburgh.
Oct 1998 'Cathedral City' an Annual Programme commission shown at Manchester Cathedral

Kristin Mojsiewicz - Selected Exhibitions
2000 The Poster Show, Cabinet Gallery, London.
2000 the Box Project, Museum of Installation Touring Project.
1999 Immediate, The Site Gallery, Sheffield.

1999 Z, Work and Leisure International, The Annual Programme.

Anneke Pettican creates installations and interventions. Her current work explores points where bodies, architecture and interfaces meet and how developing technologies affect human interaction and social behaviour.
Recent projects include
Lucky Strike: Virtual Revolutions - V2 Media Lab Rotterdam,
Missing Identity: Box Project - Museum of Installation and Opposition
Target: Chance Encounters - Platform Gallery, Melbourne.

David Mackintosh is an artist and curator whose work encompasses drawing, sculpture, video and music. He recently curated 'My Eye Hurts' - an exhibition of British artists working with sound which showed in Manchester before touring to Threadwaxing Space in New York. He produces work with Graham Parker under the name of Bono and Sting and they curate From Space in Salford. Recent/forthcoming Bono and Sting shows include 'Ever get the feeling you've been cheated', Paul Stolper Projects, London; Albrecht Dürer Kunstverein, Nuremburg; 'Polemics', CRASH!, ICA London

SPENCER HW MARSDEN is a sound artist based in Manchester who works with MUNICIPAL CONSTRUCTIONS a media performance company working on sited events in urban spaces, transforming the common ground of the city and beyond. Forthcoming events with Spencer HW Marsden include VURTOPIA an interactive web project looking at avatars, the geography of the city and the tribes which inhabit them. With the Contact Theatre. EXCITE Commission from PVA to work with map information, toxological reports and ship building transformed into a sound installation set amongst two large screen projections in the Cobb Harbour environment of Lyme Regis.

Jim Medway's drawings of cats as scallies draw on children's book anthropomorphism and the tradition of documentary social realism to produce a body of work that is fast entering Manchester's iconography. Recent and forthcoming shows include Nervous Kingdom, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Lowry Centre, Salford. He has recently received an Arts Council Year of the Artist award to become artist in residence at the Trafford Centre.

Graham Parker is an artist and curator whose work draws on performance, public art, video and electronic art. He has had work commissioned by Work and Leisure International, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Henry Moore Institute Leeds and Tate Gallery, Liverpoool. He is currently Artist in Residence in an Ordinance Survey Grid Square in the centre of Manchester and Visual Arts Officer at Salford University. He works with David Mackintosh as Bono and Sting.

"Gary Peploe asked me for half my cream egg when we were at school, I said 'you can't have half a cream egg, it'll shatter!'. He scooped the filling out of the middle." Gary also works with video installation, networked installations, roms, websites and currently producing for concept driven www.artslab.net.

Marc Provins is an artist who lives and works in Salford & Manchester. He has studied at the Nationaal Hoger Institute voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium and his qualifications include an MA in Creative Technology (University of Salford, 1999).
Recent projects include:
1999 : ESTATE’ Manchester City Art Galleries, Wythenshawe Hall. Group show.
1999 SUPERSTRUCTURES, CUBE, Manchester. Group show. Part of Digital Summer 99.
1998 PODUNK, Albert Square, Manchester. Group installation, part of Digital Summer 98 and ISEA 98.
1998 Artist’s residency & group exhibition. Tottington High School, Bury. Part of Artranspennine98.
1997 4PLAY’ The Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Salford. Group show.

Andrew Robinson is an artist and lecturer who works with photography, video and audio. He has exhibited widely since graduating from RCA with an MA in Photography. Recent solo exhibitions include:
2000 : PURCHASE A multimedia installation at The Huiton Gallery.
LONELY HEARTS a slide installation in a disused shop space in Derby City Centre.
1999 : TRAVELOGUE at Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham.
His work explores location, detail, memory and identity.

Jen Southern is an artist and curator who is currently Digital Arts Co-ordinater for IDEA. Jen and her work are sited in shifting geographical locations using technologies and urban environments including the landscape of videogames. Recent exhibitions include RYHOPE WALK at Salford Museum and Art Gallery.
In collaboration with KIT she has recently been working on:
GREYLANDS with Artengine at Lebreton Flats, Ottawa, Canada, www.greylands.com and Experimenta, Melbourne, Australia.
C.O.T.I.S at DEAF Rotterdam and Lovebytes in Sheffield.
VIDEO ARCADIA at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, YYZ Toronto Canada and 'New Art from Britain' at Kunstraum Innsbruck.