Jon Thomson (b. 1969) and Alison Craighead (b. 1971) are artists living and working in London and Kingussie, in the highlands of Scotland.
Education:
Both studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2006 - Neuberger Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Mejan labs, Stockholm
2004 - The Media Centre, Huddersfield.
2002 - Mobile Home gallery, London
- V2, Rotterdam
2000 - Mobile Home gallery, London
1999 - Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
1997 - 30 Underwood St Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007 - "BEACON", BFI Southbank, London
- "Flat Earth", animate! commission with Channel 4
- "Feedback", Laboral Museum, Gijon, Spain
- "Digital Aesthetic 2", Harris Museum, Preston, UK
- "After Neurath", Stroom, The Hague
- "Faith in Exposure", Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
2006 - "ON/OFF", Bryce Wolkowitz gallery, New York
- "Faultlines", New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
- "Edge Conditions", San Jose Museum of Art, CA
- ISEA 2006, San Jose CA
- The 9th Japan Media Arts Festival
2005 - "40 artists 40 days", Tate Online, London
- "Artbase 101", New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
- "Database Imaginary", Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
2004 - "Passage of Mirage", New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
- "Algorithmic Revolution", ZKM, Karlsruhe
- "Villette Numerique", Paris
- "The Deceleration Project", Shoreditch, London
- "Haunted Media", Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2003 - "Agile Processes", Brussels, Belgium
- "Games" Hartware MedienKunstverein, Dortmund, Germany
- DMZ, London
2003 - "Freefall", PDA, Peterborough
- "Bitparts", FACT, Liverpool
2002 - "@rt.net.uk/now". Sarai Centre, Delhi
- "Game_on", Barbican Gallery, London & Touring
- "Re:mote", Photographers Gallery, London
2001- "Artcade", Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- "Game Show", Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts
- "help_me", Slipstream, ICA, London
- "Art and Money Online", ArtNow, Tate Britain
- "010101", Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2000 - "Look & Feel", Beuro Friedrich, Berlin
- "Artists Entertainment Network", Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis.
1999 - "the.year.dot." Film & Video Umbrella, London
- "ZAC99" The Museum d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris
- The Festival of Video and Electronic Arts in Mexico City
- "Expo Destructo" post media flea market, London
1998 - Pandaemonium UK, LIFT Gallery, London
- "Omnizone", Guggenheim Museum, New York
- "The Eyes of March", LEA Gallery, London
1997 - "Ground Control", MOCA, Vilnius; Beaconsfield, London
- "Maid in Cyberspace", Studio XX, Montreal
1996 - "Ripe", Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
- Manifesta, Rotterdam
- "Burning the Interface", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1995 - Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg
- Video Positive '95, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1994 - The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow
- BT New Contemporaries, ICA, London
- "Bedsit to Loft", London
Public Collections:
Arts Council Collection
British Council Collection
Awards:
2005 Winners of an Arts Foundation fellowship
2004 Fellows at The MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA
Selected Bibliography:
Thomson & Craighead, by Julian Stallabrass & Michael Archer, editor Steven Bode
Network Art: Practices and Positions, editor Dr Tom Corby
New Media Art: Practice and context in UK, 1994 2004, editor Lucy Kimbell
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