Website: www.debrafear.co.uk

Contact: debra.fear@network.rca.ac.uk

2012-2014 MA Painting at Royal College of Art,London

2010 BA (Hons) Fine Art in Time-basedMedia at Wimbledon, UAL

2007 Foundation in Art and Design,Camberwell, UAL

My practice inflects experimental fine-art moving imageand sound with poetic sensibilities and sci-fi vibes. I tend to filmopportunistically, so that the footage I acquire necessarily embodies its flaws.I have come up with the term arte difettoso, which I consider a bastardoffspring of arte povera in its reference to poor quality materials.

Thefootage is then subject to reframing to produce immersive audio-visual installations.This process is at once literary and scientific, with observation and inventioninforming one another. Observation becomes poetic inquiry, a means of seeingpotential, while invention is informed by philosophical research and materialinterrogation. The intention is that any verbal representation of a work wouldnecessarily acknowledge this multiplicity and avoid simple description of imageand effect.

Film cognition theory, technological advances andphilosophic discussions of the digital context are vital to my practice, sincethey affect and express collective and individual understandings of movingdigital imagery in the gallery and out in the world. An entity seems to have developedfrom spectatorship and participation in wider moving-image cultures, whereby allothernesses are incorporated into a ‘we’. This is a form of cyber-consciousness in alandscape that is perpetually reconfigured, and has become a vital force in theway that I process the material that I collect.

My ever-increasing archive facilitates re-appropriationinternally; audio is subject to frequent reconstitution into different works. Irefer to these remixes as ‘circuits’, which can be considered analogous to echoeswithin experiences of time and memory. They are sculpted to absorb the viewerin subjective and intuitive experiences of duration, as qualified by HenriBergson’s concept of durée.

The works are highly structured, edited compositions withlayered timelines that challenge limits of reality, in that theirhyper-realistic appearance might be fabricated through entirely fictitiousmeans. In this way they are obviously a digital form of painting, albeit extendingout of avant-garde film history and using cinematic archetypes. Films, for me, are not only philosophic,cognitive instruments, but should incorporate aesthetic enjoyment; an absenceof traditional characters or plot necessitates a different sort of absorption and identification.

2014 ‘videoART’Exsperiment - Szczecin European Film Festival, Poland

GraduateShow, RCA, UK

HiddenDoor Festival, Edinburgh, UK

RCASecret, Dyson Gallery, London, UK

2013/14 Residentartist, Buddhist Army Records

2013 ‘BadlyNatured', NEST, The Hague, The Netherlands

PNTGNOV, Henry Moore Gallery, RCA, UK

100x100=900,multi-country screening project

‘Notes to Self’ and RCA ‘Secret’, Dyson Gallery, London, UK

InternationalStreaming Festival

WiP,Lower Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2012-13 Collaborativeproject with Collectives & Curiosities, St Lukes, London, UK

2012 ‘ColourBlue' music video for little horse

InternationalStreaming Festival

St Mungos – two charity videos -‘WithoutWalls', Guardian, London, UK

ArtistsSchool – ICA/LUX Biannual Moving Image Festival, London, UK

ExplodingCinema, Cinema Museum, London, UK

TootingConstruction ‘pop-up' Gallery, London, UK

2011 InternationalStreaming Festival

Alchemy Film and Moving ImageFestival, Hawick, Scottish Borders, UK

RoyalAcademy Summer Exhibition, Piccadily, London, UK

Musicvideos- Zook, Parkbench and Tommy Hinkley& Wandering Horse

OtticaTV Annual Screening, Bankside, London, UK

2010/11 Resident TBMArtist at Art Academy, London, UK

2010 ‘ErasedWalls’, Berlin, Germany

Degree Show, Wimbledon UAL, UK

‘Outsidethe Box', UAL, London, UK

‘Testing the Chains',Electricians Shop, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK

High Five, Croydon, London, UK

Annual Ottica TV Show, Bankside, London, UK

2009 InternationalStreaming Festival – Student Edition

‘Q-Art London presents', APTGallery, London, UK

2008 ‘Reflectionsof Choice' - Camberwell Arts Festival, London, UK

MakingConnections, Open screening, APT Gallery, London, UK