BlueGene
is an information site about the work of artist Christine Robertson.
Christine
was born in England and raised in a working-class
family.
She studied a BA in Fine Art at Reading University specialising
in time-based experimental work. Currently a new media producer,
practicing artist and lecturer in Multimedia at The University of the Arts, London and the BBC.
Blue
Gene Baby is a short digital film (for single large scale projection),
which portrays visions of human genetic identity, reflecting and questioning
the ability of DNA profiling to reduce human complexities to numbers,
codes and patterns. The film contains Images derived from super8, video
and digitally created media and an ambient soundtrack by John
(JJ) Johnson (GBM). The film grew out of a personal involvement in a DNA
profiling project which aims to trace inheritance factors for diabetes.
Screenings include:
Camden Open, Camden Odeon July 2000
Edinburgh Festival
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Offline TV, USA
British Film Institute/Realnetworks Filmakers Showcase (Internet)
Various Art Gallery location
Group show "Otherness" Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa
Reel Women Norwich
Looking through Evas Eyes is a reflection upon female
sexuality and nature, the nature within and nature around us. It is an
experimental film utilising the multi-layered possibilities that digital
video offers to construct, recombine and deconstruct the reality seen
through Evas Eyes.
Screenings
Include:
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Edinburgh Festival Videotheque
Reel Women Norwich
Worldly Bird
England 1991 3 mins
An
anti-war animation filmed on Super 8, shown at Hiroshima Peace Festival
1991, as well as being part of an International touring exhibition 'From
Belgrade to Hiroshima' 1991-2. Supported by Greater London Arts.
Typical Girls
England1984 5'37"
The Slits travelled and toured widely as a group. Accompanying them during
1980 and 1981, Christine Robertson filmed intermittently on super 8, collected
whilst managing The Slits. “Typical Girls” was completed after
the group split up in 1982. Filmed on stage in Berlin and Italy, and off
stage in the Mojave Desert and Death Valley, the film gives a flavour
of the unconventional lifestyle the group lived and the unique music that
came out of it. Basically a DIY approach to film, “Typical Girls”
was edited and mastered on to L0-band U-matic video; Lo-Fi (in keeping
with the Punk ethos). “Typical Girls” has remained unseen outside
of private collections and received its UK premiere as part of the Punk
season at the NFT.
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