All Outputs (5)

101: Black Flag (2023)
Book Chapter
Shemilt, E. (2023). 101: Black Flag. In INCITE: Digital Art and Activism (17-20). Peacock & The Worm

INCITE: Digital Art and Activism is a collaborative artists' book, featuring creative responses from artists, scholars and activists connected through the Digital Art and Activism Network, and edited by Joseph DeLappe (Abertay University) and Laura L... Read More about 101: Black Flag.

Immaterial Identities in European Women’s Video Art (2019)
Book Chapter
Shemilt, E. (2019). Immaterial Identities in European Women’s Video Art. In Ewva: European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s. John Libbey Publishing

Despite the fact that several women artists had been experimenting with the medium since the 70s and 80s in Europe, their contribution to Video art is still marginalised and has partially fallen into oblivion. Several women artists’ video works are t... Read More about Immaterial Identities in European Women’s Video Art.

Perceptions of a real event: Tensions between the seen and the unseen in performance and its video documentation (2015)
Book Chapter
Shemilt, E. (2015). Perceptions of a real event: Tensions between the seen and the unseen in performance and its video documentation. In L. Leuzzi, & S. Partridge (Eds.), Rewind Italia: Early Video Art in Italy / I primi anni della videoarte in Italia (291-301). John Libbey Publishing

The early international history of video art remains contested and most narratives focus upon a fragment. The narrative in Italy was by its nature international, and holds up a mirror to the development of video across the world. Italy was a vibrant... Read More about Perceptions of a real event: Tensions between the seen and the unseen in performance and its video documentation.

Celluloid Film Futures: How Printmaking Can Provide a Model for the Sustainability of Celluloid Film (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shemilt, E. (2015, September). Celluloid Film Futures: How Printmaking Can Provide a Model for the Sustainability of Celluloid Film. Presented at Impact 9: International Printmaking Conference, Hangzhou, China

This paper examines whether printmaking can serve as a model for the future sustainability of celluloid filmmaking in an era dominated by digital technologies. Once central to moving image art, celluloid film is now facing a crisis of accessibility,... Read More about Celluloid Film Futures: How Printmaking Can Provide a Model for the Sustainability of Celluloid Film.

Decay Behind a Glass Monitor: The Prophetic Deterioration of Early Video Art (2012)
Book Chapter
Shemilt, E. (2012). Decay Behind a Glass Monitor: The Prophetic Deterioration of Early Video Art. In Rewind: British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s (91-105). John Libbey Publishing

Rewind: Artists’ video in the 70s and 80s derives from a four-year research project into the history of an art form that has become the hallmark of contemporary art. Based on an archive of interviews, ephemera and archive copies of tapes and installa... Read More about Decay Behind a Glass Monitor: The Prophetic Deterioration of Early Video Art.