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Mark Nugent
Mark Nugent was a prolific British and Canadian filmmaker, digital artist and writer.[1] Early lifeHe was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Nugent emigrated to Canada with his family when he was seven. EducationNugent received a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University. He went on to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on scholarship and obtained a Master's in Fine Arts for Film Production. CareerNugent collaborated with a number of musicians (including Download, Dead Voices on Air,[2] Coil, FAT, Nimrod, Hafler Trio, Bruce Gilbert, Vent du Mont Scharr and Elliott Sharp) to create experimental films and live presentations. He founded and toured with Roughage, a Montreal-based mixed-media performance group, and briefly worked for Chicago's H-Gun, producing commercial music videos. Until recently, his art was part of a genre that rarely attracted critical attention from anyone other than his peers.[3] 1980sIn the late 1980s, Nugent travelled with the band FAT to Morocco and collected Super-8 footage that he would later use in his 1989 video "Inverse Proportions" on YouTube for the Elliott Sharp-led ensemble Carbon, and in his 1992 "Dark River" video on YouTube for the band Coil.[4] 1990sNugent produced a large number of hallucinatory films in the early nineties, combining his acute ability to optically process seemingly abstract images and colours, with super 8 footage and film. In the tradition of William S. Burroughs, Chris Marker, Werner Herzog, Stan Brakhage, and David Bohm, Nugent used a variety of media to explore his fascinations: the realms of consciousness, perception, alchemy, mysticism and quantum physics. Nugent created films for a number of post-industrial bands and projected his work live, to great effect on the Download tour of Europe in 1996.[5] In 1997, Nugent founded the website Psilence Image Environments to showcase his digital image work.[6] 2000sFor ten years Nugent worked on numerous digital images and cut-up writings, collaborating on a number of projects including the film Alchemical Conversations (2003), and developing websites and commercial CD releases. Most recently, he collaborated on a series of images with Aaron Campbell. DeathNugent died on 16 December 2009 of a heart attack aged 48.[7] His funeral was held on 9 January 2010 in Montreal. Nugent's preserved video work is to be included in a collection housed in museums around the world. Film and video
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