Jackie Hatfield
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Jackie Hatfield (5 July 1962 – 2 November 2007) was an artist, writer, and academic. According to the influential artist-led no.w.here website: "Jackie Hatfield is an artist and writer who makes expanded and participatory cinematic artworks using digital video, performance, sound and digital print. She has co-edited two critical books around women's use of technology in art practice and has published essays that concentrate on under-explored histories of experimental film and video practices." [1]
Biography
Her early career was spent making
From 1994 to 1995 she studied on the postgraduate programme in Electronic Imaging at
In 2003 Partridge invited her to discuss, and then seriously plan a research project that would investigate the ideas, aspirations, achievements of early British videoart, and select, conserve and preserve the best examples. This became REWIND| Artists' Video in the 70s & 80s, which she joined as its Research Fellow in early 2004. Before leaving Westminster she curated Experiments in Moving Image a survey of UK
Jackie made many trips to New York, which became her second 'intellectual' home and favourite city, not least because of her engagement and lively debates with its artists and practitioners. She had ambitious plans for further research on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2006 she won her own large research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain, investigating 'Narrative Explorations in Expanded Cinema' which completed its work (under her spiritual guidance) through Stephen Partridge, and David Curtis and Duncan White at the British Artists' Film & Video Study Collection. The project culminated in a major publication 'Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance and Film' and the Tate Symposium: 'Activating the Space of Reception' in April 2009. .[3]
References
Writings by Jackie Hatfield
- Hatfield Jackie, Expanded Cinema and Narrative – Some Reasons for a Review of the Avant-Garde Debates Around Narrativity in Millennium Film Journal, HIDDEN CURRENTS, MFJ Issue Nos. 39/40 (Winter 2003), New York. Article reproduced online: [1]
- Hatfield Jackie, Expanded Cinema – and Cinema of Attractions in Art in-sight 14 (Filmwaves 27), On Expanded Cinema, edited by Hatfield Jackie. Abstract: [2]
- Hatfield Jackie, The Subject in Expanded Cinema, online article on Filmwaves website [3]
- Hatfield Jackie, Expanded Cinema and its Relationship to the Avant-Garde, in Millennium Film Journal, New York, Volume: 39 (Winter), November 2003. ISSN 1064-5586, pp. 50 – 65
- Hatfield Jackie, Imagining Future Gardens of History, in Camera Obscura Feminism Culture and Media Studies, Volume: 21 (2 62), March 2006 ISSN 0270-5346, pp 184–191
- Hatfield Jackie, Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology (John Libbey Publishing, 2006; distributed in North America by Indiana University Press) [4]
- Hatfield Jackie, Proto-, Photo and Post-Photo-Cinema in Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance and Film, A. L. Rees, David Curtis, Duncan White, Stephen Ball, Editors, (Tate Publishing, 2011) [5]
- Hatfield Jackie, Video:Resisting Definition in REWIND: British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s, (Sean Cubitt, and Stephen Partridge, eds), John Libbey Publishing, 2012. [6]
Key critical texts
- Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema (Dutton, 1970)