Talk:Mark Nugent

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Mark Nugent was a prolific British and Canadian filmmaker, digital artist and writer. He often collaborated with a number of musicians (including Download, Dead Voices on Air, Coil, FAT, Nimrod, Vent du Mont Scharr and Elliot Sharp) to create experimental films and live presentations. He founded and toured with “Roughage,” a Montreal-based mixed-media performance group, and briefly worked for Chicago’s H-Gun, producing commercial music videos. His visionary art was part of a genre that rarely attracted critical attention from anyone other than his peers.

In the late 1980s, Mark traveled with the band FAT to Morocco and collected super 8 footage that he would later use in his 1992 “Dark River” for the band Coil, and his 1989 video “Inverse Proportions-Carbon” for Elliot Sharp.

Mark produced a large number of hallucinatory films in the early nineties, combining his acute ability to optically process seemingly abstract images and colours, with super 8 footage and film. Most recently, he was collaborating on a series of images with Aaron Campbell.

Mark created films for a number of post-industrial bands and projected his work live, to great effect on the Download tour of Europe in 1996. He had an enthusiastic spirit that enlivened the Internet for many years, collaborating with artists around the globe. For the past ten years he worked tirelessly on an endless stream of digital images and cut-up writings, collaborating on a number of projects such as the films “Alchemical Conversations” (2003) along with numerous websites and commercial CD releases. His preserved video work is to be included in a collection to be housed in the top museums around the world.

An online ‘toast’ to Mark’s life and work was organised by his many friends on December 23rd. A text has been prepared by Peter Christopherson of Coil and Throbbing Gristle and was read by Mark Spybey, in a faltering voice, full of grief for his wonderful friend. His funeral was held on January 9, 2010 in Montreal.

Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Mark emigrated to Canada with his family when he was seven. Mark received a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University. He went on to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on scholarship and obtained a Master’s in Fine Arts for Film Production.

Mark was a hyper intelligent, joyous, warm hearted and wonderfully articulate man who maintained a joie-de-vivre throughout his life.

Film and Video Work
1985 Grain Films (16mm) 1985 Cameraman On-Are you There? Are you Listening – Velcrow Ripper (16mm) 1986 On Air (16mm) 1987 Manual Labour LSD-and the politics of pharmaceuticals. The image machine and the spectacle. Semantics and disappearance. The creation and the process. Rest after the storm. 1987 Carrousel (to Hell) Optically printed Funny satirical film. 1989 Carbon-Inverse Proportions Music film by Mark Nugent and Leah Singer. Music by Elliot Sharp. All optically printed, no computers were used in this film. A prescient view of the clash of civilizations. 1992 Dark River (Coil) Music film shot in Morroco and Wyoming. Music by Coil. Based on the Bardo Thodol, The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Made using film based optical printing. No computers were used in this film. Dedicated to the memory of Jhon Balance of Coil. 1992 Mr. Sullivan What happened? We heard him scream and came and found him like this. A tongue in cheek, black humour collage film made as a music video for the band Nimrod. Later adapted for Vent du Mont Scharr. 1993 Rain Will Fall by I Mother Earth from H-Gun with Eric Koziel. Mark did optical printing and image manipulation of 16mm film Eric shot in Mexico with the band and some other actors. 1994 I Married a Munchkin Opticals and color consultant Sex on Wheels video, My life with the Thrill Kill Cult 1995 Mark Nugent's Optical Seizures, Edison Electric, Vancouver, BC, Canada 1996 Base Metal (Download) Amiga Amiga performance video for Download '96 world tour. 1996 Eyes of Stanley Pain (Download) Amiga Amiga tour video from '96 world tour. 1996 Glassblower (Download) Live performance video for Download's '96 Kill Out! World tour. From the album "The Eyes of Stanley Pain." Made on an Amiga Live! board. 1996 The Turin Cloud (Download) Live performance video for '96 Download Kill Out world tour. From the album "The Eyes of Stanley Pain." Made with a real time Amiga Live! board. 1996 Sunni C (Download) A hallucinatory vision of psychosis and the space that lies between. Produced on an Amiga Live! board for the Download Kill Out 1996 World tour by Mark Nugent 2003 Alchemical Conversations (Alchemy and archetypes)with Dead Voices on Air. Mrtd (talk) 18:55, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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