Meet Steve Hawley:
Steve Hawley is an artist who has been working with film and video since 1981, and his work has been shown at video festivals and broadcast worldwide since then. His video The Science Mix was shown at the Stedelijk and MoMA NY in 1983. His original preoccupation was with language and image, and in 1995 his experimental documentary made with Tony Steyger on artificial languages was broadcast on Channel 4 TV.
More recently his work has looked at new forms of narrative, in such works as Love Under Mercury, his first film for the cinema, which won a prize at the Ann Arbor film festival, and Amen ICA Cinema 2002, a palindromic video which won the prize for most original video at the Vancouver Videopoem festival. He has explored issues around the impact of new technologies on narrative. Yarn 2011, uses the DVD medium to create a never ending story, and Actor 2013 makes film without a camera by putting the performer in a motion capture suit.
Manchester Time Machine 2012, made with the North West Film Archive is the first ever iPhone app to combine archive film footage and GPS and is part of a project looking at the nature of the city, including Not to Scale 2009 (filmed in a series of model towns). His video with Tony Steyger South Home Town filmed in Southampton was premiered at the New York Independent Film Festival in September 2015.
He is Co-editor of the Intellect book, Imaging the City – art, creative practices and media speculations, and author of the introduction and Manchester as a mythical city; reflections in art and locative media, published September 2016. His archive film project Calling Blighty with the North West Film Archive is the subject of a Channel 4 documentary which was broadcast June 2016. He is Emeritus Professor the Manchester School of Art, MMU.