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Digitisation, Archive, Video art, Printmaking, Sociology, Online spaces, Digital images, Contemporary art, Multidisciplinary
United Kingdom

Biography

Tess Baxter is a video artist and printmaker who blends different technologies and worlds. Her video art is made out of (rather than ‘in’) a digital online world, as she edits it together with Creative Commons and public domain material from other places and times, to make the past and present talk to each other. In turn she has taken her video art into traditional printmaking, to explore the relationship between digital production (and light) and mechanical production (and ink).

Tess has a creative background, having made a living from photography, graphic design, writing and model making. These inform her current practice, along with her personal and academic interest in music, poetry and literature.

Academically she is multidisciplinary, connecting her history with subjects, from a BSc geology (Reading University) and BA sociology (UCLan) to an MA gender, sexuality and culture (Manchester University), and then to her recent practice based PhD in contemporary art (Lancaster University).

Activities

Employment (1)

Westmorland and Furness Council: Kendal, Westmorland and Furness, GB

2022-11-14 to present | Shipyard Town Digitisation Officer (The Dock Museum)
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Education and qualifications (4)

Lancaster University: Lancaster, Lancashire, GB

2016 to 2021 | PhD: Contemporary Art
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The University of Manchester: Manchester, GB

2009 to 2010 | MA: Gender, Sexuality & Culture (English and American Studies)
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University of Central Lancashire: Preston, Lancashire, GB

2006 to 2009 | BA: Sociology with Independent Studies
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University of Reading: Reading, GB

1978 to 1981 | BSc: Geology
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Professional activities (2)

The Society of Authors: London, GB

2010 to present
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International Visual Sociology Association: Pittsburgh, PA, US

2021-07-08 | Rieger Dissertation/Thesis Award 2021, for the dissertation and associated practice
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Works (6)

An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm

Mobilities
2023-05-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Kaya Barry; Jen Southern; Tess Baxter; Suzy Blondin; Clare Booker; Janet Bowstead; Carly Butler; Rod Dillon; Nick Ferguson; Gudrun Filipska et al.
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Pigment, light, paper, screen; formats as interacting multi-dimensional creative works

Interfaces
2021-12-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1164-6225
Part of ISSN: 2647-6754
Contributors: Tess Baxter
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Future City, 2021

Visual Studies
2021-10-20 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1472-586X
Part of ISSN: 1472-5878
Contributors: Tess Baxter
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Falling between worlds

Lancaster University
2021-02-19 | Dissertation or Thesis
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“Found Collaboration,” and the Art of Leaving Things for Others to Find and Use

Media-N
2021-01-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1942-017X
Part of ISSN: 2159-6891
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In Defence of Holism: Textures and materials, words conversing with images, theory with practice, disciplines joined together

The Sociological Review Magazine
2020-09-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2754-1371
Contributors: Tess Baxter
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