CV

 
My films are held in the BFI archive


In Lovely Blue (2022, 07:52), with Xiaojuan Zhang. Premiere at ‘Dwelling on the Cloud’ at Lovely Duck, London, curated by LTMP


I Am Sitting in a Zoom (2021, 34:31). Premiered at Dysfunctionalities in Art conference, EKATE, Nicosia, Cyprus. Also exists in a shorter ‘Zoom lecture’ version (21:10).


One Nation Under a Grave (2020, 22:22), with Veronica Diesen. Premiere at Kode 2, Bergen, Norway, 20 January, 2020 
 

Opportunities (2018, 02:20) 


You Make Me Feel So (1917) (2018, 04:52). 트Generation, aka Benedict Seymour & Soohyun Choi


Dead the Ends (2017, 106 mins). Premiere BFI London Film Festival (Experimenta), October 2017. Also screened at ICA cinema and Rich Mix, London. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/264993554
 

La Re- (2015; working title of ‘Dead the Ends’). Screened Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, 23 May 2015


Can Dialectics Break Gravity? (2014, 52:49 mins), Dir. with Matthew Noel-Tod. Premiere at Banner Repeater, London 4 April 2014; screened 26 July 2014 ICA, London


Bang! (2012, 23:50 mins), Dir: Matthew Noel-Tod, Script: Benedict Seymour. Review by Hannah Black, Mute Magazine 


Olympicfield (2009, 3:28 mins). Commissioned for London-Delhi 2010-2012, with Watermans art centre in Brentford and Sarai, Delhi. Screened at BFI Southbank, January 2019


The London Particular, (2003, 30:34 mins). Co-directed with David Panos as The London Particular, a collaborative research project into ‘regeneration’. Additional images: Melanie Gilligan and Simeon Tiller


The Occupation, (2001, 15:30), with David Panos, as The London Particular. Documentary on gentrification, regeneration and culture in East London 



SCREENINGS


27 Sept-1 October 2025 I am sitting in a Zoom (lecture version) screened in the group show, Pay Attention!, VCAS Vienna, curated by Ziegi Boss


20 June 2025 I am sitting in a Zoom (lecture version) screened and discussed at London Conference in Critical Thought in the stream ‘The Crisis of Experience in the in the Age of Algorithmic Attention’ organised by Nikita McCauley and Daniel Neofetou


24 September 2022: Dead the Ends screened as part of Testcard - a 24 hour
streaming video art programme. Developed by Nastassja Simensky and Anneke Kampman, and made possible with support from LAHP, Primary, Jim Brouwer, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Hugh Nicholson, Sophia Simensky and Alison Lloyd


20-27 August 2020: One Nation Under a Grave screening in The Second Chapter, a group show show at 3,14 Bergen, Norway curated by Gitte Saetre
https://www.kunsthall314.art/upcoming


ICA Daily 24 May 2020: (Online): Dead the Ends. Published together with my article on the politics of covid in the UK: ‘This isn’t a virus, it’s a time machine’ (Mute Magazine, 16 May) selected by Stefan Kalmár for https://www.ica.art/ica-daily/sunday-24-may-2020 


18 December 2019: Opportunities screened at Experimenta Mixtape number 7, BFI Southbank NFT 3, London 


3 October 2019: Dead the Ends, screening at Hamlet.Love, Zurich. Programed by Jiajia Zhang as part of Cinema Hamlet, 5 weekends of screenings exploring transformation and the moving image


July 2019: Dead the Ends USA tour, a series of screenings and Q&A’s:
 
    Yale Union, Portland, 11 July https://yaleunion.org/benedict-seymour/

    Tamarack, Oakland, 13 July; Artists Television Access, San Francisco 14 July 

    The Public School, Los Angeles, 16 July


29 April 2019: Dead the Ends German and Romance Literatures and Languages Department (GRLL) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, Spring 2019. Screening and Q&A as part of the undergraduate upper level course ‘Art and Revolution in European Theatre and Film after 1945’ convened by Christiane Kettler 


28 March 2019: Dead the Ends, screening and discussion with BA students convened by Nizan Shaked, California State University, Long Beach at London American Institute for Foreign Study, London


10 January 2019: Olympicfield screened at Experimenta Mix Tape #1, BFI Southbank London


17 October 2018: Dead the Ends, Centre for Entangled Media Research (CEMR), College of Arts and the School of Film and Media at the University of Lincoln. Screening and talk at ‘The Future of the Digital Image, a seminar on Dead the Ends’ convened by Dean Lockwood and Dave Boothroyd, with contributions and papers by Rob Coley, Marie Thompson & Thomas Sutherland, Martin Thayne and Dean Lockwood 


4 October 2018: Dead the Ends, Spectacle Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Screening and Q&A


29 September 2018: Dead the Ends, NYU, New York, US Premiere. Screening and Symposium at The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture. With Hari Kunzru, Sukhdev Sandhu and members of the NYU Cinema Studies and Literature Depts

(Still) forthcoming: Proceedings from the symposium will also be the basis of a stand-alone publication in a series produced by the New York-based Texte und Töne imprint. The publication will feature contributions from Anna McCarthy (head of Cinema Studies at NYU), Leo Goldsmith (cinema studies NYU, Brooklyn Rail) and Chris Darke (Critic Film Comment, Sight & Sound)


16 May 2018: Dead the Ends, University of Kent, Department of Law. Screening and discussion with Elizabeth Cowie and Thanos Zartouladis


10 May 2018: Dead the Ends, Whitechapel Gallery London, (Artists' Film programme). Screening and Q&A with Curator Gareth Evans https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/dead-the-ends/


22 February 2018: Dead the Ends, Screening and Q&A at Hospital Prison University Archive, Copenhagen, with Jakob Jakobsen. In connection with the exhibition on art, money and value with the 'Art for Goods' association and Joen Vedel http://hospitalprisonuniversity.net/


9 Feb 2018: Dead the Ends, screened at QAGOMA Australian Cinémathèque Brisbane Australia


30 January 2018: Dead the Ends, Anagram Books, Berlin, Germany– screening and discussion with the poet Sean Bonney and film maker Sacha Kahir http://www.anagrambooks.com/dead-the-ends-by-benedict-seymour-106


26 January 2018: Screening and Talk: ‘Dead the Ends: Reading the Text of the 2011 Riots’ at Riots: Dissent and Spectres, Control and Ruptures, Berlin. A 2-day seminar accompanying the show Riots: Slow Cancellation of the Future 26 Jan – 1 April 2018 at ifa-Galerie Berlin, curated by Natasha Ginwala https://www.contemporaryand.com/de/exhibition/riots-slow-cancellation-of-the-future/


15th October 2017: (World Premiere) Dead the Ends at ICA Cinema. Also screened at Rich Mix London, 15th October. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 in the Lux Experimenta strand. Review by Paul Clinton in Frieze, 26 October, 2017 https://www.frieze.com/article/life-repeated


September 2016: Excerpt from The London Particular (2003) included in Matthew Noel-Tod ‘Soft Floor Hard Film’ (9.45’) exploring 50 years of the London Film Makers Co-op. Frieze commission film premiered at ICA London


10 December 2015: Screening of La re (work in progress), Artists Film club, ICA London https://www.ica.art/whats-on/artists-film-club-benedict-seymour


September 2015: Screening and discussion of La re (work in progress), ‘Dognmuseum’, Bergen Public Library, plus tutorials and workshop at Khib (art school), Bergen


July 2015: La re screened as part of ‘On Floating Bodies, or Can Dialectics Break Gravity?’,
Day workshop at ICA London with Matthew Noel-Tod and Clunie Reid https://www.ica.art/whats-on/workshop-floating-bodies-or-can-dialectics-break-gravity


23-24 May 2015: La re screened as part of ‘Art & Detournement Seminar’, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow Poland: 2-day seminar on the condition(s) of digital non-reproduction.
Also screened ‘Can Dialectics Break Gravity?’ (2014)


21 Nov 2015: Bang!, Screening and Q&A at Cinecity: 14th Brighton Film Festival, with Matthew Noel-Tod and David Panos http://www.cine-city.co.uk/festival-event/bang/


4 April 2014: Can Dialectics Break Gravity? Directed by Benedict Seymour and Matthew Noel-Tod.
Premiere at Banner Repeater, London https://www.bannerrepeater.org/matthew-noel-tod-a-season-in-hell-3d


30 August 2012: Bang! premiere at Chisenhale Gallery https://chisenhale.org.uk/programmes/offsite/matthew-noel-tod-bang/


29 July 2012: Olympicfield screened at Westworld, 29 July-19 August 2012 a group show at Xero Kline & Coma London. Curated by Scare in the Community (Julika Gittner and Jon Purnell). Accompanied by a publication including my story ‘The Drought’ (2012). Short fiction revisiting JG Ballard’s ‘60s scifi in the context of climate change and urban ‘regeneration’ as rolling state of emergency



WRITER AND EDITOR (Books)


July 2020: ‘Dissolving the People’, essay in How To Win, an anthology of writing and artworks by Tories Out Propaganda Unit (TOPU), PDF available online https://tories-out-propaganda-unit.tumblr.com/


March 2020: ‘La Rejetée’, essay-fiction interrogating recent theories of the (moving) image in the context of financialisation and social media. Published in The Memory of it Sometimes Comes to you – Encircling the Image of Trauma, pub. Centre d’Art Contemporain/Archive Books, Geneva. Matei Bellu and Emilie Bujès, eds 


September 2018: Art and the Utopia of (Non-)Reproduction. In: John Chilver and Brighid Lowe, eds. Manual: Parts and Labour. Osan: Gwak Sang-wook, Osan Culture Foundation, pp. 22-23


August 2017: ‘The re-Jetée: 1971, Recurring’, a speculative treatment for a reinvention of Chris Marker’s ‘La jetée’, published in WdW Review Vol.1 (2013-16): Arts, Culture, and Journalism in Revolt (book), Edited by Defne Ayas, Adam Kleinman.  Anthology of Witte de With’s online platform WdW Review since its inception in 2013


September 2014: ‘Primer'’ – essay-fiction reworking Sean Carruth’s film about a start-up outfit who accidentally create a time machine to explore the new wave of postinternet art and gentrification in south London. David Riff; Ekaterina Degott and Jill Winder, eds. Monday Begins on Saturday. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014, pp. 123-163 


2013-14: Commissioning Editor ‘Aesthetic Education Expanded’: Commissioned and edited a series of 12 long-form essays for Mute Magazine, London, with Berliner Gazette, Kontrapunkt (Macedonia) and Multimedia Institute (Croatia). Funded by the European Commission: http://www.aestheticeducation.net/ Authors include film critic Joshua Clover and poet Anne Boyer


Sept 2010: ‘Creativity’s Rainbow’, speculative fiction reworking Thomas Pynchon and Philip K Dick’s post-war scifi to (satirically) imagine the aftermath of the creative class in a time of growing austerity and reaction. English and Russian translation in catalogue for ‘Shockworkers Of The Mobile Image’, the First Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art 2010, Ekaterinberg, Russia. English and Russian translation. Edited by Ekaterina Degot, David Riff and Cosmin Costinas. http://www.ncca.ru/en/events.text?filial=5&id=299
Review of show in Frieze magazine http://www.frieze.com/comment/article/1st-ural-industrial-biennal/ 


November 2009: ‘Proud to be Flesh – A Mute Magazine Anthology’ (book), editor and contributor, Mute Publishing/Autonomedia, London, 2009. 624 page book collecting writing and art from 15 years of Mute Magazine. Features three of my essays including: ‘Drowning By Numbers: The (Non)Reproduction of New Orleans’. Disaster-catalysed primitive accumulation as strategy of the white supremacist US economy in decline


June 2006: Text and images of regeneration mapping project in Else/where: Mapping — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, University of Minnesota Design Institute, 2005, ed. Janet Abrams and Peter Hall. Scholarly anthology on techniques and contemporary applications of mapping. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/else-where
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/else-where


2005 Editor: Mute vol2 #0 Precarious Reader, a collection of articles and writings on the politics of precarity from Mute magazine and other sources



ESSAYS & ARTICLES



Articles in the ‘Fifth Column’ blog series on Metamute.org


16 May 2020: ‘This isn’t a virus, it’s a time machine’, Mute Magazine. “Benedict Seymour takes Fredric Jameson’s 2015 essay ‘In Hyperspace’ as a starting point to compare the current UK government’s Covid-19 and Brexit policies – a device to effect a collective leap into the future, only with the twist that this leap into the ‘future' is actually a radical leap into a reactionary past, a rapid leap backwards.” – Stefan Kalmár in ICA Daily, 24 May 2020


8 July 2014: ‘Game of Thralls – an Art & Labour Fantasia’ Organizing in the artworld?


29 May 2014: ‘Notes on Normcore, a response to Tom Frank's analysis of the normcore trend
 

April 2014: ‘The re-Jetée: 1971, Recurring’ Fiction-theory for WDW Review, Rotterdam, 1971 section


April 2014: ‘Domino, No No No!’ Culture and Gentrification in Williamsburg


March 2014: ‘Nuff Aura: Absolute artwork meets absolute desperation’ Hip hop as asset class


Dec 2013: ‘A Christmas gif(t): On gifs, time and the carnivalesque’


April 2013: ‘Keep Calm and Carrion: Two Funerals and a Reflection’ Thatcher death parties in UK 


October 2012: ‘Nothing is Better than Love: How not to repeat Weimar in Greece’ Critique of Paul Mason on Grexit


August 2012: ‘Crime Scene Investigation’ Bullets in Broadway Market, Hackney


July 2012: ‘Alternative Olympics’ The London Riots and the Olympics as ‘negation of negation’


July 2012: ‘Anish Kapoor/Vanish the Poor: 3 Olympic Symptoms’ Art and the elimination of labour


June 2012: ‘Slave to the Rhythm or the Promissory Form of Labour’ Workfare, mass ornament, and jubilee



Other articles


5 Jan 2012: ‘Le jetée’s Spiral’, Mute Magazine, Review of Les Marques Aveugles at the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva. Modernist film tropes and their afterlife in the loops of post-Fordist restructuring

July, 2011: ‘Short Circuits: Finance, Feedback and Culture’, Mute Magazine, Vol3, no.1. A theory of cybernetics as a mode of non-reproduction of capital, and of Cagean aesthetics as anticipation of neoliberal ‘dematerialisation’ and social reproductive crisis: ‘doing more with less’


July 2010: ‘Eliminating Labour: Aesthetic Economy in Harun Farocki’, Mute Magazine, Vol2, no.16   
Devalorisation and the art of destroying (constant) capital


Sept 2009: ‘Something is happening but you don’t know what it is’. Essay in ‘Finance’ – Stanley Picker Gallery Lectures on Art part 4, by Benedict Seymour and Anthony Davies with Ian Hunt, editor Dean Kenning, pub. Centre for Useless Splendour, Kingston University, London, 2009


12 August 2009: ‘Notes on the Last Days of Jack Sheppard: Capital Crimes and Paper Claims’  


May 2008: ‘Blurred Boundaries: Sport, Art and Activity’, Mute magazine, Vol.2, no.8. Loren Goldner, CLR James, Melville and Marx converge on the all-sidedness of a proletarian art form


2007: Editor, Scum of the Republic – Banlieuesards and the Left, a short pamphlet on the 2005 riots in France. Published by Mute Books, London


May 2006: Editor, The Class of the New, Richard Barbrook, a Creative Workers in a World City book published by Open Mute


4 April, 2006: Fear Death by Water – The Regeneration Siege in Central Hackney, The London Particular, Mute Magazine, 26. Artist’s project by Benedict Seymour and David Panos on the racialised gentrification of central Hackney


‘Mutiny in the Mainstream’, Journal of Visual Culture, Volume: 5 issue: 1, page(s): 112-114 https://doi.org/10.1177/147041290600500115


July 2002: ‘Back to Zero’ – On Jean-Luc Godard’s political cinema, Mute Magazine 21

  With digital technology and ‘anti-globalisation’ politics fusing to create a new wave of activist           cinema, this piece returned to Jean-Luc Godard’s post-1968 (Maoist) films as ambiguous but           fascinating experiments in revolutionary (old) new media


10 March 2002: ‘Bio-Pics’ On Pasolini’s Salo, Trilogy of Life and Agamben, Mute Magazine 23 
 
    Explores the relation between Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ’70s films and philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s     theory of ‘bare life’ and sovereign power, with some help from Gary Indiana


March 2002: ‘When Worlds Collide’ – article on painter, Nigel Cooke, Frieze 65.
Exploring an art of apocalypse as state of exception


March 2002: ‘Do the Right Thing! The Anti-Globalisation Movement after S11’ Texte Zur Kunst, no.44 


10 Dec 2001: ‘The Last Picture Show’ – on closure of the Lux cinema, Mute Magazine, 22.
    Rent and artists’ cinema in the east end


10 July 2001: ‘Blockbusting the Election’ Mute Magazine, 20.


May 2001: ‘Nationalise This!’ – Analysis of ‘anti-globalisation’ movement, Radical Philosophy, 107.


April 2001: ‘Two or Three Things I Know About Her’ – Regeneration in London, Mute Magazine, issue 19

April 2001: ‘The Battle of Seattle’ for Log magazine: rap about ‘anti-globalisation’


Feb 2001: Review Chad McCail, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, Frieze 57


Jan 2001: Review Jeremy Deadman, Five Years, London, Frieze 56


Sept 2000: Review ‘Club Circuits’ Southampton, Public Art Journal


June 2000: ‘Rabble Rousers’ - Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt’s Empire, Mute 18 


May 2000: ‘Coral Maze’ review of Mike Nelson at Matt’s Gallery, Mute 17


May 2000 – April 2001: Editor, Britart.com: Editor of online art magazine and copywriter for online gallery’s website. Writing, commissioning and editing features, news and reviews 


April 2000: Review ‘Wooden Heart’, AVCO London, Art Monthly, 235


Dec 1999: ‘Everything Must Go’ – on creativity, capitalism and the ‘CRASH! Corporatism & Complicity’ exhibition at the ICA, Mute 16 


Sept 1999: Review Henry Bond, Emily Tsingou, London, Frieze 54


June 1999: ‘Rehabilitating the Subject’ – review of The Ticklish Subject by Slavoj Zizek, Mute 13


August 1998: ‘The Situationist City’ by Simon Sadler, review in Mute 11


1998 – May 2000: Freelance writing for a range of magazines, papers and websites including: Dazed & Confused: interview with the philosopher Slavoj Zizek (issue 54, May 99) and The Independent on Sunday: Full page feature on Zizek (21st June 98)



TALKS AND LECTURES



25 Jan 2018: Workload: Working as an Artist under Post-Fordism, Tate Exchange, London. A workshop organized by Pil and Galia Kollectiv and led by Sophie Hope and Benedict Seymour,  focusing on artists’ work 


29 Nov 2017: Contemporary Art Talks: Benedict Seymour, The Department of Art Public Talks Programme Autumn 2017, Goldsmiths University of London


2 March 2015: ‘Short Circuits: Finance, Feedback and Culture’, Goldsmiths MFA Visiting Lecture series
 

22 Feb 2013: ‘Utopia &/or non-reproduction?’ Talk at ‘Life After Work’ conversations, Utopia, QMC, London 


Organised talks and talk series for Mute Magazine between 2003 and 2012 including panels at Historical Materialism 2011 and 2013 featuring Alberto Toscano, Loren Goldner, Gail Day, Marina Vishmidt and myself; series on crisis and capital by Loren Goldner, struggle in the slums by Richard Pitthouse 


18 May 2010: Marxism: Radical Alternative or Totalitarian Relic? Debate at The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic. Organised by the European magazine network, Eurozine (Vienna European Commission


10 May 2010: Talk on the politics of social reproduction and financial crisis with a screening of ‘The London Particular’ at Eskalera Karakola social centre in Lavapies, Madrid. Part of a parallel programme of films and discussions alongside the Principio Potosí exhibition at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain


5 Febuary 2010 – Principio Potosí. Modernidad y la llamada acumulación originaria. Talk at public seminar featuring myself, Chto Delat, and others. Part of the exhibition Principio Potosi at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, curated by Alice Creischer and Andreas Sieckmann 


1 July 2009: Urban Frontier – Led a walk and talk through East London and the Olympic zone as part of London-Delhi 2010-2012, a digital arts collaboration between artists and young people in London and Delhi with Watermans art centre in Brentford


4 June 2009: Talk at The Chisenhale Gallery in London on the relationship between representation, value and finance as refracted in the film The Last Days of Jack Sheppard 


16 April 2009: ‘Loren Goldner’s Theory of Crisis’ - Talk on capitalist crisis at Birkbeck Group meeting, London


1 April 2009: ‘Something is happening but you don’t know what it is’ – Talk on art and financial crisis at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London


15 February 2009: Talk on Marx’s theory of value, fictitious capital and crisis at 2 day conference, Finanskrise Socialkrise, Folkets Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark


7 October 2008: Screening/talk on art & gentrification, Wimbledon College of Art, BA Talks programme

3 August 2008: Organiser ‘The Assault On Culture: A Mute Magazine talk on privatisation and critical artistic practice’, Publish & Be Damned self-publishing fair, London


1st July 2008: Organiser. ‘Feeding Frenzy – a Discussion on Food, Fuel and Finance’, The Church House, London


13 June 2008: Screened The London Particular (film, 2003) and gave a talk on regen, art and housing, Mama media centre, Zagreb, Croatia http://www.mi2.hr/


27th May 2008, screening of The London Particular (2003), at Urban artscapes: revisioning contemporary London, Bartlett, UCL


24 May 2008: ‘Art, Sport, and Shopping – from modernist utopia to neoliberal dystopia’, Lecture, BB3 Bucharest International Biennale, Rumania 


13 June 2008: Screened The London Particular (2003) and gave a talk on regen, art and housing, Mama media centre, Zagreb, Croatia. http://www.mi2.hr/


27 May 2008, screening of The London Particular (2003), at conference: Urban artscapes: revisioning contemporary London, UCL


24 January 2008: Speaker on ‘Failure and Art’ at Serpentine Gallery Sweatshop, Goethe Institute, London


9 November 2007: Talk and screening on art, gentrification and protest at The Journal for Northeast Issues - A Living Magazine by projektgruppe (Insert 6 at Kunstverein in Hamburg, 9 November - 30 December), Hamburg 2007


1 September 2007: Talk and screening ‘Bare Life and Living Labour’ as part of Documenta 12 magazines programme, Documenta-Halle, Kassel


22 May 2007: Speaker on gentrification, art and activism, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, Soho Theatre, London


Jan 2007: Series of talks on regeneration and culture with films by The London Particular at Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow and other venues in Glasgow and Edinburgh


16 May 2006: Speaker at the Art, Community, and Urban Regeneration conference, London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise (LCACE) conference, GLA City Hall 


12 Feb 2005: Screening/discussion around The London Particular (film, 2003), at Precair Forum: Precarious Work, Migration, The City, Amsterdam


Feb 2004: Screening of Spanish language version of ‘The London Particular’, CHASM, Centre De Art Santa Monica Barcelona 


Organised talks and talk series for Mute Magazine between 2003 and 2012 including panels at Historical Materialism 2011 and 2013 featuring Alberto Toscano, Loren Goldner, Gail Day, Marina Vishmidt and myself; series on crisis and capital by Loren Goldner, struggle in the slums by Richard Pitthouse 


17 Sept 2003: Speaker at the Artist as Activist conference (ACE Interrupt series), University of Manchester


31 July 03: Co-programmed screening of 3 films about gentrification at The Other Cinema, London including premiere of The London Particular


Nov 2002: The Physical Impossibility of Regeneration in the Mind of Somebody Living – Short film and map of local regeneration nexus in the show Convulsive Initiatives, Century Gallery, Hackney, curated by Marina Vishmidt 


26 Feb 2002: Screening of The Occupation at ‘Work and Non-Work’ curated by Anthony Iles, part of Soft Season at inIVA, London


16 Aug 2001: The Occupation (2001), screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival


18 May 2001: Screening of work in progress at Stadtluft macht frei! – a talk about the city, technoculture and ‘urban renewal’ at V2, Rotterdam


Sept 1999 – June 2004: Set up and helped coordinate a reading group on philosophy and capital in Hackney, London 



SOUNDTRACKS



Moderation (2016) Dir. Anja Kirschner. Contributed song, ‘Possessed’, Petit Mal (Ben Seymour/Melanie Gilligan, 2008)


The Common Sense, Dir. Melanie Gilligan, 2015. Full soundtrack http://thecommonsense.org


Popular Unrest, Dir. Melanie Gilligan (2010). Full soundtrack. Excerpts


The Last Days of Jack Sheppard (2009), Dir. Anja Kirschner and David Panos. 2 sequences soundtrack



Aune, or On Effective Demise (2012), Dir. Maija Timonen. Full soundtrack. Plus additional sound recording and editing


Crisis in the Credit System (2008), Dir. Melanie Gilligan. Full soundtrack. Additional dialogue for 2 episodes. Produced by Artangel, viewable online




MUSIC (RECORDED, LIVE, ETC) 



13 August 2010: Petit Mal live performance at Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada. Opening event the exhibition Popular Unrest by Melanie Gilligan, and the Banff Summer Arts Festival

19 November 2009: Petit Mal live performance at the ICA, London supporting The Red Krayola 


24 September 2009: Petit Mal live performance Karlsruhe Kunstverein for launch of exhibition ‘The Last Days of Jack Sheppard’, Anja Kirschner & David Panos


May 2009: Wrote and performed music for The Last Days of Jack Sheppard (2009), directed by Anja Kirschner and David Panos, commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery London and CCA Glasgow with the support of the Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England and the Scottish Arts Council


9 May 2009: Petit Mal (Ben Seymour and Melanie Gilligan) live session on the show ‘Choking on Cufflinks’, WFMU radio, Jersey City, NY, USA. Producer Mike Goldstein, engineer Trent Wolbe https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Petit_Mal/Live_at_WFMU_on_Choking_on_Cufflinks_5909
5 tracks: Mt Dimension, In Mexico, Crisis in the Credit System, Possessed, Wild is the Wind


6 May 2009: Petit Mal, live performance at Grey Room event at Issue Project Room, New York USA. With Emma Hedditch, Jutta Koether and Tony Conrad 


February 2009: Petit Mal – Petit Mal, 12 track album, Difficult Fun records (CD only). Written, produced, recorded with Melanie Gilligan https://difficultfun.org/items/df006.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1XN40IRJ8


2 January 2009: Petit Mal live performance at Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh4ApacxJ-c


13 October 2008: Petit Mal – ‘Crisis in the Credit System’, 7” single/mp3 out on Difficult Fun https://difficultfun.org/items/df007.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYzsDleIcTM

19 July 2008: Petit Mal, live performance, Analog Festival, Dublin, Eire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh4ApacxJ-c


27 April 2008: Petit Mal, live performance, Gi Festival closing party, CCA Glasgow, Scotland

Autumn 2006: Antifamily – Antifamily – LP, Difficult Fun. (CD and vinyl)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SyxpRwAkhE


Dec 2005: Petit Mal ‘Crisis II’, Und Jetzt Alle, Text Zur Kunst Sounds compilation (CD), Text Zur Kunst no.60


June 2005: Antifamily – Game & Erancy, Difficult Fun Compilation LP, Difficult Fun https://difficultfun.org/items/product.html


Jan 2004: Antifamily/ Antifamily EP, Difficult Fun. Tracks online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7U9cwTPYFY


Aug 2002: The Snakes, ‘Little Machine’, 4Eva – A tribute to fanaticism, The Physics Room, NZ



POSITIONS (LECTURER, EDITOR)


October 2019-January 2020: Lecturer Historical and Contextual Studies, ‘Sound / Music & Moving Image’ module, Moving Image BA (Hons), University of Brighton


Oct 2008 – Nov 09: Lecturer BA Fine Art Wimbledon, London: Contextual studies seminars, lectures and studio practice tutorials 


October 2007 – present: Lecturer in Critical Studies, Fine Art MFA, University of London Goldsmiths


Oct 2005-07: Visiting Tutor for Critical Studies, Fine Art MFA, University of London Goldsmiths


Oct 2008-22: Editor with Mute Magazine editorial collective, London


Nov 2003 – Oct 2008 Deputy Editor, Mute Magazine. Commissioning, writing and co-editing this quarterly ACE funded art, culture and politics magazine. Publishing uthors and theorists such as Alberto Toscano, Melanie Gilligan, Hannah Black, Benjamin Noys, Evan Calder Williams, Mark Fisher http://www.metamute.org/editorial/books/mute-magazine-print-archive


October 2008 – May 2009: Editor ‘UK Arts Overview’: a survey of the arts in Britain for the British Council, published on the CtC UK and China websites


May 2000 – April 2001: Editor, Britart.com: Editor of online art magazine and copywriter for online gallery’s website. Features, news and reviews



EDUCATION


Oct 93 - Sept 1994: MA American Literature & Theory since 1945. University of Sussex

Oct 90 - June 93: BA English Literature (1st class hons). University College London

Sept 89 - June 90: Fine Art Foundation course (Diploma with distinction), Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology


1976-1989: Educated in the UK state education system: free everything