The Light Surgeons
is a collective of pioneering multimedia artists founded in 1995 by creative director Christopher Thomas Allen. They operate as a multi media production company from a base in East London.
The Light Surgeons' work spans many diverse mediums; print, photography, motion graphics, short films, exhibitions and installations.
Over the past ten years they have helped to pioneer new forms of cross platform practice, particularly with their audio visual performances, expanded cinema projects and installations. Their work is exhibited at art museums and film festivals internationally.
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The Light Surgeons have worked for a variety of artists, companies and festivals including The Rolling Stones, U2, Zero 7, The Big Chill, Glastonbury, Nokia, Sony Playstation, and Levi’s as well as exhibiting work at Tate modern, South Bank Centre and One Dot Zero.Chris Allen is the founder and director of The Light Surgeons. His work crosses a diverse range of media; from graphic design, photography, film, video installations through to exhibition curation. He works on all aspects of projects as a producer, director and collaborating artist in his own right.
The Light Surgeons have worked for a variety of artists, companies and festivals including The Rolling Stones, U2, Zero 7, The Big Chill, Glastonbury, Nokia, Sony Playstation, and Levi’s as well as exhibiting work at Tate modern, South Bank Centre and One Dot Zero.
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Over the last few years TLS have continued to redefine cross media art in a range of different disciplines by AV performances such as Z-Axis, a live AV remix of the cinematic adaptation of Ayn Rand’s classic novel The Fountain Head. This performance has toured to major art institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, after premiering at onedotzero7 in 2003.
They have continued to blur the distinction between art and design with several major exhibitions and gallery collaborations with infamous architect and furniture designer Ron Arad, showing their work in Milan, Barcelona and the Venice bienniale.
Over the past ten years, The Light Surgeons have consistently managed to tread a tight rope between the commercial world and their own artistic work by producing countless productions for events and broadcast; with a diverse range of clients from high street fashion bands to film companies, product designers and architects.
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