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Jackie Hatfield (5 July 1962 – 2 November 2007) was an artist, writer, and academic. According to the influential artist-led no.w.here website: ''"Jackie Hatfield is an artist and writer who makes expanded and participatory cinematic artworks using digital video, performance, sound and digital print. She has co-edited two critical books around women's use of technology in art practice and has published essays that concentrate on under-explored histories of experimental film and video practices."'' no.w.here
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Biography

Her early career was spent making
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sculptures which enjoyed some recognition and sales before she undertook a variety of casual and sometimes unusual roles. One night, attending a
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screening, she decided that her future lay in the moving image. After taking advice from Dave Parsons at Central St Martins she elected to study Time Based Media at
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(from 1991 to 1994), despite not being able to show much evidence of any accomplishment in either film or video. Her ambition, aspiration and intellect however, was more than enough to convince tutors A. L. Rees and Steve Littman that here was someone very special.
David Hall (video artist) David Hall (born 1937 in Leicester, died October 2014) was an English artist, whose pioneering work contributed much to establishing video art, video as an art form. Life and work David Hall studied at De Montfort University#The Faculty of Ar ...
, doyen of British
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, had established the programme in the early 1970s and his legacy and ideas on video and film as artforms were still very influential. These ideas she was later to combine with those of her PhD supervisor Malcolm Le Grice, in a 'unified' theoretical framework (unifying film and video within an expanded definition of
Expanded Cinema {{italic title ''Expanded Cinema'' by Gene Youngblood (1970), the first book to consider video as an art form, was influential in establishing the field of media arts.Manovich, Lev. 2002. "Ten Key Texts on Digital Art: 1970–2000". Leonardo. 35 (5) ...
) evidenced in her articles for Millennium Film Journal and Filmwaves.filmwaves
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Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) is part of the University of Dundee in Dundee, Scotland. It is ranked as one of the top schools of art and design in the United Kingdom. History Attempts were made to establish an art schoo ...
where Professor
Stephen Partridge Stephen Partridge (born 1953) is an English video artist
was one of her tutors. After her Scottish sojourn she returned south and joined the University of Westminster in 1996, initially to take a Doctorate, but rose to Senior lecturer and Course Leader for Contemporary Media Practice, at the School of Media, Art and Design. In 2003 Partridge invited her to discuss, and then seriously plan a research project that would investigate the ideas, aspirations, achievements of early British videoart, and select, conserve and preserve the best examples. This became REWIND, Artists' Video in the 70s & 80s, which she joined as its Research Fellow in early 2004. Before leaving Westminster she curated Experiments in Moving Image a survey of UK
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and video works including installations and expanded cinema, staged rather appropriately at the Old Lumiere Cinema in central London, and again 'unifying' the apparent diverse practice(s) of British film and video artists/makers. The exhibition also led to her anthology of artists' and filmmakers' writings: Experimental Film and Video Anthology, (John Libbey London, April 2006, ). This remarkable collection included the voices of 35 practitioners, many of whom had rarely if ever committed to scholarly writing before but succumbed to Jackie's persuasion and cajoling as the editor and contributor. Jackie made many trips to New York, which became her second 'intellectual' home and favourite city, not least because of her engagement and lively debates with its artists and practitioners. She had ambitious plans for further research on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2006 she won her own large research grant from the
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of Great Britain, investigating 'Narrative Explorations in Expanded Cinema' which completed its work (under her spiritual guidance) through Stephen Partridge, and David Curtis and Duncan White at the British Artists' Film & Video Study Collection. The project culminated in a major publication 'Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance and Film' and the Tate Symposium: 'Activating the Space of Reception' in April 2009. .Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception"
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References


Writings by Jackie Hatfield

* Hatfield Jackie, ''Expanded Cinema and Narrative – Some Reasons for a Review of the Avant-Garde Debates Around Narrativity'' in Millennium Film Journal, ''HIDDEN CURRENTS'', MFJ Issue Nos. 39/40 (Winter 2003), New York. Article reproduced online

* Hatfield Jackie, ''Expanded Cinema – and Cinema of Attractions'' in ''Art in-sight 14'' (Filmwaves 27), ''On Expanded Cinema'', edited by Hatfield Jackie. Abstract

* Hatfield Jackie, ''The Subject in Expanded Cinema'', online article on Filmwaves websit

* Hatfield Jackie, ''Expanded Cinema and its Relationship to the Avant-Garde'', in ''Millennium Film Journal'', New York, Volume: 39 (Winter), November 2003. , pp. 50 – 65 * Hatfield Jackie, ''Imagining Future Gardens of History'', in ''Camera Obscura Feminism Culture and Media Studies'', Volume: 21 (2 62), March 2006 , pp 184–191 * Hatfield Jackie, ''Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology'' (John Libbey Publishing, 2006; distributed in North America by
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* Hatfield Jackie, ''Proto-, Photo and Post-Photo-Cinema'' in ''Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance and Film'', A. L. Rees, David Curtis, Duncan White, Stephen Ball, Editors, (Tate Publishing, 2011

* Hatfield Jackie, ''Video:Resisting Definition'' in ''REWIND: British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s'', (Sean Cubitt, and Stephen Partridge, eds), John Libbey Publishing, 2012


Key critical texts

*
Gene Youngblood Gene Youngblood (May 30, 1942 – April 6, 2021) was an American theorist of media arts and politics, and a respected scholar in the history and theory of alternative cinemas. His best-known book, ''Expanded Cinema'', was the first to consider vi ...
, ''Expanded Cinema'' (Dutton, 1970) *


External links


REWIND, Artists' Video in the 70s & 80s

British Artists' Film & Video Study Collection
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hatfield, Jackie British experimental filmmakers Alumni of the University of Dundee 1962 births 2007 deaths