Instant collects together a number of short video works by young British contemporary artists in a specially designed interactive installation set-up.


Each of the works are accessible via a touch-screen monitor displaying a custom designed graphic interface which encourages the viewer to scratch away at a series of miniaturised visual icons (in a subtle echo of the lottery scratch card craze). By showcasing a number of high impact, performance orientated works (distinguished by a direct to-camera address or a dramatic, expressive focus on the body), Instant aims to offset the illusion of instant access or instant gratification, apparently promised by new technology, with a series of vivid visual reminders of the enduring, inescapable presence of physical reality.


Co-commissioned by FACT, Film and Video Umbrella and Tramway, Glasgow.


New Commission.

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Instant collects together a number of short video works by young British contemporary artists in a specially designed interactive installation set-up.


Each of the works are accessible via a touch-screen monitor displaying a custom designed graphic interface which encourages the viewer to scratch away at a series of miniaturised visual icons (in a subtle echo of the lottery scratch card craze). By showcasing a number of high impact, performance orientated works (distinguished by a direct to-camera address or a dramatic, expressive focus on the body), Instant aims to offset the illusion of instant access or instant gratification, apparently promised by new technology, with a series of vivid visual reminders of the enduring, inescapable presence of physical reality.


Co-commissioned by FACT, Film and Video Umbrella and Tramway, Glasgow.


New Commission.