Operatives
Staff
Alice Ceresole
Alice’s background is in TV production. She has worked at The Light Surgeons as a researcher, studio manager and producer on a number of commercial and arts related projects as well as making some creative contributions as a photographer.
Christopher Thomas Allen
Chris is the founder and director of The Light Surgeons. His work crosses a diverse range of media; from graphic design, photography, film and video installations through to exhibition curation. He works on all aspects of projects as a producer, director and collaborating artist in his own right.
Affiliated Artists & Producers
Annie Kwan
Born in Singapore, Annie’s background is in theater and film production. She has worked as a production manager and producer at The Light Surgeons on numerous commercial and arts related projects from 2005 until the present.
Jude Greenaway
Born in London, Jude’s background is in fine art and animation. He has collaborated on a huge range of projects; from motion graphics, film direction, sound design and live audio live performance. He releases music as Scanone on various labels. www.myspace.com/scanone
James Price
James joined The Light Surgeons in 2000 and has contributed to a wide range of projects, editing, directing and collaborating on live AV performances. He worked for several years as a freelance documentary film maker with Lenka Clayton and is currently working on some short films for C4. He also lectures in video for Brighton University.
Tom Wall
Tom has directed various CGI animations for The Light Surgeons with his partner Luis De Jorge. Together they formed BlinkinLab, a moving image design collective in 2005 after graduating from London Guildhall University’s MA in Digital Moving Image.
Tim Cowie
Tim works as an audio visual artist in his own right under the Audio Dependant name. He has worked on a wide range of different projects as an editor, animator, sound designer and director, as well as a collaborating artist on live AV performances. link: http://www.myspace.com/audiodependent
Luis De Jorge
Luis has directed various CGI animations for The Light Surgeons with his partner Tom Wall. Together they formed BlinkinLab, a moving image design collective in 2005 after graduating from London Guildhall University’s MA in Digital Moving Image.
Mark McRae
Born in London and based in Berlin, Mark is a prolific musician and composer who collaborates as an artist on live AV performances.
Malcolm Litson
Based in London, Malcolm is an artist who’s work spans audio and visual mediums. He is a prolific audio producer working under the name Blipvert and also teaches audio engineering at a London University. Links: http://www.axisweb.org/artist/malcolmlitson
Helen Omand
Helen’s background is in documentary TV production. She operates as a freelance producer and film maker and has worked on several short film and AV performance projects as a research producer.
Toby Harris
Toby is an audio visual artist who works under the name Spark from a studio in London. He has produced a huge amount of visual productions for arts and commercial clients and is a founder of the VJ collective AVIT in the UK. Website: http://sparkav.co.uk/
Mitchy Bwoy
A prolific graphic designer who is a music and culture obsessive. He tirelessly supports and communicates the best of what he feels contemporary life has to offer. Mitchy Bwoy‘s vast portfolio of work spans music and clothing design but he continues to innovate & diversify.
Olivier Ruellet
Olivier is a multimedia artist and animator who has extensive knowledge of computer generated animation and programming. He has contributed to several projects at the Light Surgeons in the past few years and operates as a freelance programmer and artist as Ctrl-N, while teaching animation at the University of West London.
Ex-contributors
Andy Flywheel
Co-founder and a director at The Light Surgeons until 2001 when he left to pursue other work. Andy’s background in film was instrumental to the development of The Light Surgeons fusion of analogue visuals. He remains the grand master of the 16mm film loop.
Robert Pyecroft-Rainbow
An experienced artist who works with photographic, print and time-based processes. Themes of local-ness, community and accessibility are central to his practice and this influence has been central to many of the collaborative projects within The Light Surgeons over the past 10 years.
Brede Korsmo
A multi disciplinary artist with a background in graffiti and screen printing who has developed a rich multi-layered approach to digital moving image work. He has contributed to a wide range of different projects at The Light Surgeons over the past six years. Website: www.bredekorsmo.com
Ben Allen
Born in London and based in New York City, Ben’s background is in music production. He has released several albums under the Dynamic Syncopation (DSP) name in the UK and contributed audio production work to various projects as well as collaborating on live AV performances.
Paul O’Connor
Paul is a founder member of The Light Surgeons and established it as a company in Dublin. He works as a photographer, graphic designer and video artist from his base on the west coast of Ireland through his company Judo Design. Link: http://www.pauloconnor.org
Andy Firman
Now based in Dublin, Andy works on technical production for a range of different live events. An original member of The Light Surgeons in the UK before migrating to Ireland, he is a talented artist who has worked on countless visual productions and specializes in field operations.
Becky Gates
Becky worked as a studio manger and production co-coordinator on a range of commercial and arts related projects between 1999 and 2003. She lives in London and works as a freelance events producer.
Spencer Bewley
A highly creative artist that co-founded Lazy Eye visuals in London at around the same time The Light Surgeons began. He has brought his unique brand of visual intoxication to many audio visual productions over the years and is now based in New York City.
Nicola Godlieb
Nicola’s back ground is in fine art and she works as an illustrator and animator in London. She has contributed to several visual productions and short films at The Light Surgeons over the years and currently teaches animation at Hackney Community College.
Ben Tseng
Ben studied motion graphics at LCC before joining The Light Surgeons and working on several visual productions and film projects. He left in 2003 to study at Fabrica and now works in shanghai at an advertising agency.
Nicola le Marquand
Nicola’s background is in fine art and sculpture. She worked as a studio and project manager at The Light Surgeons before emigrating to Austria to work in film production. She is also fondly remembered as “The Duchess”.
Yunus Akseki
Yunus joined The Light Surgeons after graduating from London College of Communication. He has worked on various projects as a designer, animator and web developer. He now runs his own creative communications agency Imperial Leisure from a space in Hoxton.
Mark Blackburn
Mark ‘Blackie’ Blackburn, the Earl of Mortlake, took a musical interlude from TLS and formed the downtempo outfit Kinobe in 1999. He now lives in Brighton, making pictures and playing records.
Martin Banks
A visual artist with a background in production for events and Vjing, his creative input to Light Surgeons includes film making and animation. He operates as a freelance designer and has recently finished working with dance film company State of Flux.