Name: Martin Taylor
Age: 28
Contact: martin@escapeart.co.uk
Telephone: 07812 697759
Location: Brighton.
Profile: a creative with the skills to maximize the potential of concepts and briefs, 100% commitment, motivation, dedication
Qualifications
MA Visual Communication: 1997 - 1999 Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. Extensive CD-Rom based project, featuring imagery, text and sounds inspired by the work of The Situationist movement of the late 1950's.
BTec Multimedia Authoring: 1997 Wolverhampton Wulfrun College [Director / Lingo Scripting / HTML / Photoshop]
BA [hons] Creative Arts: Manchester Metropolitan University 1995 : combining text, imagery and sound in installations and exhibitions.
A levels: Art and English Literature
Software: Dreamweaver 4 - Photoshop - Fireworks - Director 8 Shockwave Studio - Illustrator - SoundForge - Vegas - Adobe Premier - Logic Audio - Real Producer
Aug 2002-Present: Web Producer, Scholtz Vitrine Sound Collective: Editorial, articles, columnist, design elements. This collective comprises theorists, medical staff, musicians, performers. artists and producers: very media-aware, experimental, referencing material as far reaching as acoustic, medical and technological research. I have been responsible for generating a visual identity for the organization, as well as writing, editing and researching articles and news items. Link: see web site.
July 2002-Present: Consultant / Writer: Report on eCommerce for 'Demontfort Fineart'. link: view extracts. Report on digital fine art reproduction for Chromograph Limited. link: view extracts.
August 2001 - Present: Part-time media duties for Chromograph Limited [programming, editorial and design duties].
January 2000 - Present: Contributor: Com[a] TV, [staff writer / columnist]; Barbelith [articles and column as 'Rollo Kim']. links: see web index.
August 2001 - Present: Visuals, text and audio for TAR records. links: see web site.
September 2001 - January 2002: Web, design and copy duties for a publisher of erotic fine art prints: Incubus Arts, founded by art historian Edward Lucie Smith . Company launch Currently on-hold. Link: site design.
August 2001 - August 2002: Chromograph Limited (copy and visual material). Link: see copy and visuals.
September 2001 - Present: Online Editor / Staff Writer for Com[a] Online Cultural Index. Link: see web site.
August 2002 - Present: writing for Fused Magazine.
April 2000 - August 2001: Web / Media producer Chromograph Limited [Wolverhampton / London]: designing and maintaining web site, producing promotional copy, articles on the fine art industry, developments in print technology etc.
Soon promoted to handling general correspondence, liasing with clients etc, supervising production schedules as well as email newsletters and general office duties. Part-time as of August 2002.
May 1999 - September: New Media: Arts Council Sponsored project. Landscape:An interface which manoeuvres around a full sized latex cast of the human form [lingo scripting and soundtrack elements].
September 1999 - January 2000 Office duties:
Onsite Design. Correspondence, building
client database, supervising print-runs and deadlines, advertising materials,
checking product-quality.
Spetember 1997 - January 1999:New Media Design Birmingham Institute of Art and Design: MA Visual Communication [CD-ROM design].
March 1997 - September 1997 Trainee Mac operator Media Forge, Wolverhampton: Director, Photoshop, HTML.
March 1995 September 1997 Freelance artist-designer:
various commissions including publicity material [photography
and copy] for theatre, record companies, concerts etc. Mural designs for
restaurant, promotional photography for "La La" Theatre Company,
general production duties for a Birmingham based recording studio. Link:
see online gallery.
Please see the following links to view samples of my work:
Outside interests: art history, philosophy, Tai Chi, live / electronic music and creative writing.
Telephone: 07812 697759
referee contact: darius@coma.no.com
referee contact: input@schvtrn.com
Links to a selection of my work
[please note that due to the nature of the work, the contents of some sites may offend]
contact: martin@escapeart.co.uk
telephone: 07812 697759