Bureau presents Dave Griffiths, 2nd ? 21st July
in OUTPOST?s 'British & European Legs' at Contemporary Art Norwich 2007
Anglia Square Shopping Centre, Norwich, UK

Bureau is proud to present Dave Griffiths in his first solo exhibition, as
part of 'British & European Legs', an invitational project for Outpost
Gallery, to coincide with Contemporary Art Norwich 2007.

Griffiths presents a body of filmworks constructed from his tenderly
curated database of movie cue-dots. Gleaned over the last two years from
digital TV broadcasts, Griffiths' archive represents an ongoing
restoration of those fleeting, but critical, time signals that regulate
the illusionary changeovers between film reels. Griffiths exhibits recent
films - both data-driven and linear - plus three new interactive works
that place cue-dots from his collection into outmoded or ephemeral display
devices. Archaic, dusty machines, from childhood cinematographic toys and
microfiche, are revived to function as both expanded silent-cinema and
resource for examination of cinematic remains.

From his archaeological sifting of matinee fragments, Griffiths has
created exploratory works around the mechanical, aesthetic and narrative
structures of celluloid. By November 2007 the cue-dot collection aims to
be publicly accessible online as a resource for art-historical and
creative research. These top-corner phrases of found footage provide
fertile audio-visual materials with which to spin stories about the
cinematic continuum, and hint at human commotion both onscreen and in the
projectionist's booth. Their imminent disappearance, as industrial
casualty of digitisation, marks a sea change in cinema history. Griffiths'
depository of near-redundant 'cigarette burns' provides a means of
remembering cinema?s outgoing physicality, and a method of enquiry into
narrative and perceptual processes.

Preview: 6?9pm, Sunday 1st July 2007
Anglia Square Shopping Centre, Norwich, (see websites for map)
Opening Times: Daily, 12 - 6pm. Admission Free. Fully Accessible.

MORE ON DAVE GRIFFITHS:
Dave Griffiths? practice dwells on the physical and fictive borders of
media spaces and forms, combining a rigorous attention to barely
perceptible materials with a study of their dramatic potential. Filtered
through the languages and strategies of cinema and media art, his
'close-up epics' playfully touch on social myths of security and
perfection that surround our visual technologies. He uses film, video and
sonic material, often arising from laborious search or unstable technical
methods, to devise encounters between apparatus and accidental, faltering
or abandoned codes. Griffiths graduated with MA Media Art at Manchester
Metropolitan University in 2004, and is represented by Bureau, Salford.
Along with Nick Jordan in 2005 he directed the 'StoryRooms' catalogue
documentary featuring artists Susan Collins, Paul Sermon, Cornelia
Sollfrank and Andrea Zapp, and co-curated 'CODEC/X: New British Video &
Sound Art', which toured internationally in 2003-2004. Griffiths lectures
in video production and film studies, and recently presented papers at
Sonic Arts Network and the Security Bytes Conference, Lancaster
University, UK.
?www.davegriffiths.info <> www.bureaugallery.co.uk
www.norwichoutpost.org <> www.contemporaryartnorwich.co.uk