Malcolm Le Grice

Born in May 1940 Malcolm Le Grice started as a painter but began to make film and computer works in the mid 1960s Since then he has shown regularly in Europe and the USA and his work has been screened in many international film festivals He has also shown in major art exhibitions like the Paris Biennale No8 Arte Inglese Oggi Milan Une Histoire du Cinema Paris Documenta 6 Kassel XScreen at the Museum of Modern Art Vienna and Behind the Facts at the Fondacion Joan Miro Barcelona His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art New York the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London and is in permanent collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris the Royal Belgian Film Archive Brussels the National Film Library of Australia Canberra German Cinamatheque Archive Berlin Canadian Distribution Centre Montreal and Archives du Film Experimental DAvignon A number of longer films have been transmitted on British TV including Finnegans Chin Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy and Chronos Fragmented His main work since the mid 1980s is in video and digital media and includes the multiprojection video installation works The Cyclops Cycle and Treatise Le Grice has written critical and theoretical work including a history of experimental cinema Abstract Film and Beyond 1977 Studio Vista and MIT For three years in the 1970s he wrote a regular column for the art monthly Studio International and has published numerous other articles on film video and digital media Many of these have been collected and recently published under the title Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age by the British Film Institute 2001 Le Grice is a Professor Emeritus of the University of the Arts London where he is a collaborating director with David Curtis of the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection