David Chapman is a senior lecturer in media production. He has background as a freelance producer and director. This includes work in television documentary and community and educational video and multimedia. He also is involved in the development of various arts projects, working with a number of artists in the area of video, new media and performance. David is also a practicing musician with a long history of recording and performance and an exhibiting sound artist. His current practice investigates the sonic mediation of the natural world and the durational exploration of place and environment through audio-visual installation.

Sound art, Documentary Film, Artists' Film and Video.

• MA Programme in Media & Communication
• BA Film and Video: Theory and Practice

• MSM515 Media Production
• MSm529 Research Methods for Media Practice
• MSM502 Audio-vision
• MS1201 Cinematics 1 – Introduction to video practice
• MS2202 Cinematics 4 - Screen Visions: material, form and process
• MS3000 Dissertation projects

Publications:

• Sept 2011 ‘The Caress of the Audio: Re-sounding Falkland’, Social Semiotics  Vol. 21, No. 4, pp: 517-529 (with Louise K. Wilson)

•  May 2011 Re-sounding Falkland, Catalogue of critical essays on co-edited with Louise K. Wilson

• Dec 2010 ‘Falkland: a Sonic Investigation of Place’, Journal of Media Practice, Vol.11, No.3. pp: 231-242 (with Louise K. Wilson).

• July 2009 ‘Chance Encounters: Serendipity and the Use of Music in the Films of Jean Cocteau and Harry Smith’, The Soundtrack, Vol 2, No.1 pp: 5-18

• January 2009 'Hark', Screenworks Vol. 1, No.1

• December 2008 ‘Critical Dialogues: David Chapman and Louise K. Wilson,’ (Interview by Anne-Cranny-Francis) Scan: Journal of Media Arts Practice Vol. 5, Number 3 (http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=125)

Exhibitions:

• 2011  Phono:Graphic (Group Show), curated by Helen Frosi, Galerie8, London.

• 2011 ‘To the Field and Yonder!’ (Group Show), curated by Helen Frosi. Gorey Art and Film Festival Gorey,Ireland     

• 2011 ‘Touch Too’, (Group Show), Curated by Anne Cranny- Francis, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

• 2010 Re-sounding Falkland, series of multi-channel sound and video installations, Falkland Centre for Stewardship, Falkland Scotland (collaboration with Louise K. Wilson)

• 2009 Octo: sotto voce, part of  ‘I hear Too’ (Group Show), York Minster, curated by Damian Murphy and Jude Bereton

• 2009 Falkland Audiowalk, headphone based audiowork, Falkland Centre for Stewardship, Falkland Scotland (collaboration with Louise K. Wilson)

• 2008 Arcadia, 8-channel sound installation Palace of Falkland, Fife Scotland (collaboration with Louise K. Wilson)

Publications:

• 2009 'Steel Cello / Bow Chime' in Allegue, L, Jones, S, Kershaw, B and Piccini, A (eds) Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen, London: Palgrave Macmillan

• 2006 Encyclopaedia of the Documentary Film , Aitkin, Ian [ed] London: Routledge. Entries on 'The Ark' [M. Dineen, 1993]; 'I Do Not Know What It is I am Like' [B.Viola, 1986]; 'Video Diaries' [BBC 1990-2001]; 'Interactivity' and 'Multimedia' .

• 2004.Guest Editor – Art In-sight /Filmwaves Issue 25, pp 5-18, ISSN: 1460-4051 ‘Opening the Sonic Envelope’ – editorial pp5-6

• 2003 'Wigs of Wonderment' Art In-sight /Filmwaves, Issue 21, p.14  ISSN 1460-4051

• 1998 'Downloading the Documentary', in Wayne, M. [ed] Dissident Voices, London: Pluto Press
  

Selected Exhibitions and Media Work:

• July 2007 Hark 2 (with David Cottridge) (Group Show) Matrix East Research Lab, University Of East London

• August 2006 Robert Wilson Project, Sound Work / Publication, Gunpowder Park, Waltham Abbey

• October 2005 Hark, (with David Cottridge) Gunpowder Park. Waltham Abbey. Funded by Gunpowder Park and Arts Council England

• September 2005 Observances, Video installation, Reap, (Group Show) Curated by Anne Bean, Café Gallery Projects, London

•  October 2004 Steel Cello / Bow Chime Director, Editor, DVD Author

• DVD documentary of the performance work of Bob Rutman, Adrian Palka and Wolfram DER Spyra. Collaborative research project with Adrian Palka [Coventry University] Funded By AHRB

• June 2004 Art Trail, Soundworks’, Cork, Ireland.

• March 2004 Steel-cello / Bow-chime, Performance / Presentation [With Adrian Palka, Coventry University] ‘Sounding Out Festival’, Curated by Richard Wilson, University of East London

• January 2004 Revelation Online Art project. With Paul St. George & Maureen Kendall [London Metropolitan University] Funded by Lea Valley Park

• December 2002 Wigs of Wonderment - Producer / Video editor

• Interactive CD-Rom based on performance work by Keith Khan and Moti Roti. For African and Asian Visual Artists Archive / Live Arts Develeopment. Funded by London Arts Board.

• September 2002 Finding the Way Home - Producer / Director

• Documentation of ERSC funded study of youth issues and cultures in East London and Hamburg. 30min. for the Centre for New Ethnicity Research - UEL. Funded ERSC

•  February 2002 Artists and Cosmonauts - Co-director/ editor

• Video documenting artists working in zero-gravity conditions. Screened at Artists and Cosmonauts [Lilian Bayliss Theatre, London; Strange and Charming Sci-art seminar series Royal College of Art , London and various symposia in Britain, USA and France. For The Arts Catalyst

• March 2002 Three songs for Yuri Gagarin Digital Sound Piece -Solo work presented at Artists and Cosmonauts [Event documenting artists' engagement with space exploration], Lilian Bayliss Theatre, London

•  Broadcast and web-cast on Resonance fm , London September 21 st 2002

•  August 2001 Chanting Heads - Producer / Video Editor, CD-Rom documenting recent work by 12 British artists for African and Asian Visual Artists Archive, Funded by the Athene Trust

• From January 2001 Backspace, Digital Sound Piece for Collective Jukebox [ Touring group exhibition ] Various galleries in France, Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

• 1998 Pump Station Gallery –Digital Sound Piece - ‘Intermedia 98’, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland

• 1997 The Hum, Broadcast documentary, Splash/Faction Films for HTV / Westcountry TV (Producer).

www.davidchapman.info

www.resoundingfalkland.com