Mark Nugent Explained

Mark Nugent was a prolific British and Canadian filmmaker, digital artist and writer.[1]

Early life

He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Nugent emigrated to Canada with his family when he was seven.

Education

Nugent 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.

Career

Nugent collaborated with a number of musicians (including Download, Dead Voices on Air,[2] Coil, FAT, Nimrod, Hafler Trio, Bruce Gilbert, Vent du Mont Scharr and Elliott 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. Until recently, his art was part of a genre that rarely attracted critical attention from anyone other than his peers.[3]

1980s

In the late 1980s, Nugent travelled with the band FAT to Morocco and collected Super-8 footage that he would later use in his 1989 video for the Elliott Sharp-led ensemble Carbon, and in his 1992 for the band Coil.[4]

1990s

Nugent 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. In the tradition of William S. Burroughs, Chris Marker, Werner Herzog, Stan Brakhage, and David Bohm, Nugent used a variety of media to explore his fascinations: the realms of consciousness, perception, alchemy, mysticism and quantum physics.

Nugent 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.[5] In 1997, Nugent founded the website Psilence Image Environments to showcase his digital image work.[6]

2000s

For ten years Nugent worked on numerous digital images and cut-up writings, collaborating on a number of projects including the film Alchemical Conversations (2003), and developing websites and commercial CD releases. Most recently, he collaborated on a series of images with Aaron Campbell.

Death

Nugent died on 16 December 2009 of a heart attack aged 48.[7] His funeral was held on 9 January 2010 in Montreal. Nugent's preserved video work is to be included in a collection housed in museums around the world.

Film and video

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Interview: Hannigan Chats about Cork Film Fest 2010. The Irish Film & Television Network. The Irish Film & Television Network. 12 May 2012. Article. 4 November 2010.
  2. Web site: Mark Spybey Of Dead Voices on Air. Last Sigh Magazine. Last Sigh Magazine. 12 May 2012. destruKt. July 1997.
  3. Web site: Mark Nugent. Experimental Conversations, Issue 6, Winter 2010. Experimental Conversations. 11 May 2012. Don O Mahony. Article. 2010. https://archive.today/20130122194903/http://www.experimentalconversations.com/articles/532/mark-nugent/. 22 January 2013. dmy-all.
  4. Web site: Mark Nugent obituary. The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. 11 May 2012. Mark Spybey . Meghan Dufresne . John C McDaniel . Zev Asher . 9 January 2010.
  5. Web site: Narratives: Interview with Mark Nugent. Dead Voices on Air . 11 May 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20140904195110/http://www.deadvoicesonair.com/being/narratives/nugent.html. 4 September 2014. dmy-all.
  6. Web site: About Psilence Image Environments . Mark Nugent . 12 May 2012 . 13 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120313010432/http://www.marknugent.info/ . dead .
  7. Web site: Mark Nugent obituary. The Guardian home. Guardian News and Media Limited. 12 May 2012. Mark Spybey . Meghan Dufresne . John C McDaniel . Zev Asher . Article. 10 January 2010.

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