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Stephen Partridge

Stephen Partridge is a media artist and producer.

He was in the "landmark" shows of the 1970s including the Video Show at the Serpentine in 1975, the Installation Show at the Tate gallery in 1976, The Paris Biennale in 1977 and The Kitchen in New York in 1979.

During the eighties he exhibited widely and also became interested in works for broadcast television and was commissioned by Channel 4 television to produce Dialogue for Two Players in 1984.

With Jane Rigby, he formed Fields and Frames - an arts projects and television production company - which produced the innovative Television Interventions project for Channel 4 in 1990, with nineteen works by artists for television (including his own piece in the series - The Sounds of These Words).

He also co-produced a short series of student and artists work Not Necessarily with BBC Scotland for BBC2 network television in 1991.

He has also curated a number of influential video shows: Video Art 78 in Coventry; UK TV New York; National Review of Live Art 1988-90; 19:4:90 Television Interventions; and the touring tape packages Made in Scotland I, II, Semblances, Passages.

He has worked with the artist and composer David Cunningham, whose soundworks and structural approach has enriched many of his works since 1974.

He is presently collaborating with the artist Elaine Shemilt on a series of works including the installation Chimera and the digital prints and etchings series Intangible Bodies. He has lectured for twenty years in a number of art colleges, and is presently Professor of Media Art and Head of School at one of Europe's leading colleges for digital media, video and animation - the School of Television and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee, Scotland.

The School runs two undergraduate programmes: BA (Hons) Fine Art-Time Based Art, BDes(Hons) Animation and the PostGraduate Diploma/MSc in Electronic Imaging.

Within the School he established the Television Workshop, a production agency for filmmakers and media artists wishing to produce work in video, television, animation, computer graphics, and installation work, with access to the School's excellent facilities which he designed to be among the best in Europe. The School was assessed as a Grade 5 Research Department under the RAE of 1996.

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Stephen Partridge is a media artist and producer who exhibited in 1970s shows including the Serpentine (Video Show, 1975), the Tate gallery (Installation Show, 1976), the Paris Biennale (1977) and The Kitchen, New York (1979). He worked with composer David Cunningham from 1974; Channel 4 commissioned Dialogue for Two Players (1984); with Jane Rigby he formed Fields and Frames and produced Television Interventions (Channel 4, 1990), featuring nineteen artist works including his The Sounds of These Words, and he co-produced Not Necessarily for BBC2 with BBC Scotland (1991). He has curated Video Art 78 and touring tape packages and is Professor of Media Art and Head of School at the School of Television and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee, where he established the Television Workshop.

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