Paul St George
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Paul St George is a London
based multimedia
artist
and sculptor
, best known for The Telectroscope
, an art installation
visually linking London
and New York
.
St George's other projects have included Minumentals, miniatures of famous large-scale sculptures such as The Angel of the North, for the Locus + arts organization, and Revelation, a multimedia installation at Gunpowder Park in Waltham Abbey, Essex
. He was one of the contributing artists to and curator of Sequences, an exhibition of contemporary art and chronophotography
which toured six cities in the UK in 2004/2005. He was also the editor of Sequences: Contemporary Chronophotography and Experimental Digital Art.
St George studied at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, Wiltshire. The college was situated right next to Lacock Abbey where Fox Talbot invented photography. Paul’s fascination with the relationships between images and different realities started there.
As well as being an installation artist, Paul St George is Principal Lecturer in Computer Animation in the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design at London Metropolitan University
.
The Telectroscope
- A steampunk inspired public art project in New York and London linking the two cities in real time.
Supermoment - A project to highlight the hidden and ubiquitous technology in our lives through the use of LEDs in a dark room to show what we forget is there.
Carpet Castle - A playful project substituting carpet for sand.
Minumental sculpture - Recreating monumental contemporary sculptures on a minumental scale.
Chronocyclography - Photographs made from a trace of a person's movements to reveal the hidden dance and drawing from their actions.
Chronopan - imagery that contain both duration (chrono) and space (pan). Duration is enfolded into one image for example showing the change of light over a 10 hour exposure.
Trackorama - a print made from a camera that “tracks” along a line that can travel from one scene to another. This long tracking shot is laid out as a print on a wall.
London
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based multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and sculptor
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
, best known for The Telectroscope
Telectroscope
thumb|200px|right|Telectroscope technical illustration in [[Scientific American]] Supplement No. 275, April 9, 1881The telectroscope was the first non-working prototype of a television or videophone system...
, an art installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
visually linking London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and New York
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
St George's other projects have included Minumentals, miniatures of famous large-scale sculptures such as The Angel of the North, for the Locus + arts organization, and Revelation, a multimedia installation at Gunpowder Park in Waltham Abbey, Essex
Waltham Abbey, Essex
Waltham Abbey is a market town of about 20,400 people in the south west of the county of Essex, in the East of England region. It is about 24 km north of London on the Greenwich Meridian and lies between the River Lea in the west and Epping Forest in the east. It takes its name from The Abbey...
. He was one of the contributing artists to and curator of Sequences, an exhibition of contemporary art and chronophotography
Chronophotography
Chronophotography is an antique photographic technique from the Victorian era , which captures movement in several frames of print. These prints can be subsequently arranged either like animation cels or layered in a single frame...
which toured six cities in the UK in 2004/2005. He was also the editor of Sequences: Contemporary Chronophotography and Experimental Digital Art.
Life
Paul St George’s father was an acrobatic tap dancer, his mother a costume designer. They were mid-way through a world tour of Kiss Me Kate when Paul was born - he started life in Norway, was weaned in Sweden, toddled in Finland but went to school in Bristol, England.St George studied at Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, Wiltshire. The college was situated right next to Lacock Abbey where Fox Talbot invented photography. Paul’s fascination with the relationships between images and different realities started there.
As well as being an installation artist, Paul St George is Principal Lecturer in Computer Animation in the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design at London Metropolitan University
London Metropolitan University
London Metropolitan University , located in London, England, was formed on 1 August 2002 by the amalgamation of the University of North London and the London Guildhall University . The University has campuses in the City of London and in the London Borough of Islington.The University operates its...
.
Selected Works
St George's practice as an artist has always been concerned with questioning the relationship between the viewer and what is being viewed. His work is often associated with different realities, spectacle and viewer participation.The Telectroscope
Telectroscope
thumb|200px|right|Telectroscope technical illustration in [[Scientific American]] Supplement No. 275, April 9, 1881The telectroscope was the first non-working prototype of a television or videophone system...
- A steampunk inspired public art project in New York and London linking the two cities in real time.
Supermoment - A project to highlight the hidden and ubiquitous technology in our lives through the use of LEDs in a dark room to show what we forget is there.
Carpet Castle - A playful project substituting carpet for sand.
Minumental sculpture - Recreating monumental contemporary sculptures on a minumental scale.
Chronocyclography - Photographs made from a trace of a person's movements to reveal the hidden dance and drawing from their actions.
Chronopan - imagery that contain both duration (chrono) and space (pan). Duration is enfolded into one image for example showing the change of light over a 10 hour exposure.
Trackorama - a print made from a camera that “tracks” along a line that can travel from one scene to another. This long tracking shot is laid out as a print on a wall.
External links
- Paul St George faculty page and portfolios at London Metropolitan University
- Paul St George's Telectroscope Project:
- The Telectroscope Project Blog
- Robert Gore-Langton, This way to New York - through a 40ft-long Telectroscope, The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, May 3, 2008. Retrieved 25 May 2008. - Melena Ryzik, Telescope Takes a Long View, to London, New York Times, May 21, 2008. Retrieved 25 May 2008.