From the imperceptibly transitional to the highly synchronous
Overlap: audiovisual artists, Michael Denton & Anna McCrickard create AV performances, Music, VJ Sets, transitional paintings and installations, performed and exhibited from Glastonbury to the V&A.
Their melodic minimalist music is designed to augment imagery. Inspired by landscape in all its forms, the working process involves adding and removing layers, degrees of opportunism and systematized chance, creating generative combinations ranging from slow transitional paintings, to fast flowing AV sets.
Limited editions/NFT’s of Overlap’s ongoing multi loop projects, centring upon infinite variants of transitional landscapes and melodic minimalist music are available on SeditionArt, Bandcamp, SuperRare & Makersplace. Shown in different forms, as audiovisual performance, installation and linear screening, recent exhibits include: Verge – London; Splice Festival – London; B-Seite Festival – Mannheim; Videoformes – Clermont Ferrand; ROM, MÜSZI – Budapest; ISEA – Hong Kong; Digital Graffiti – Alys Beach and Digital Decade 5 – London.
Overlap have released multiple albums and EPs, collaborating with Andy Dragazis (Blue States) & Eos.
Other Overlap highlights include –
VJ’ing for numerous musical acts over the past 3 decades, including Deadmau5, Fatboy Slim, Pete Tong, Groove Armada & The Chemical Brothers – at festivals and high profile art events including Creamfields, the British Ambassadors Residence in Beijing and Club nights at Razzmatazz Barcelona, Wonderland & Ushuaia, Ibiza and regular slots at The Gallery, Turnmills (London).
Remixing the re-release of the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour for the film’s big screen gala premier at London’s BFI.
Creating audiovisual paintings for the National Trust’s, Fenton House, Hampstead, London.
Annual live visual mixes for Noise of Arts residency at the Latitude Festival film & Media tent and the audiovisual celebration of 100 years of Electonic Music at the National Portrait Gallery.
Writing and performing the music score for Kevin Thomas’ True Love (Once Removed) (best short film Palm Springs and Houston Film Festivals, qualifying for Oscar nomination), and were commissioned to write soundtracks for Playstation’s Soul Calibur and fire safety commercials
Overlap is grateful for the support of audiovisual software makers, Resolume.
Select Exhibitions, Performances, Screenings, Editions, Releases & Press
2024: Circuitry : 24 iterations released on SeditionArt, 20th March. A carousel effect is experienced when looking at these artworks, designed to be displayed looping either singularly, or as sets.
2023: Modulated Horizon : 24 iterations on SeditionArt. There’s a soft sequential symmetry in these landscapes. Every sixteen bars a recurring audio motif triggers a new horizon.
Lazy Lure, first of the Lures series launched on SuperRare, 9th November. Lighthouse: Selected for Ninfa, Sommelier Picks. 19th September.
Blue Steam & Yellow Field: Landscape editions of 100, exclusively with Noonssup at Maison & Objet, Paris, 7 – 11th September.
Subtractives, exclusively on Seditionart, 3rd March. Twenty eight pieces that loop seamlessly as individual iterations and like a set of dominoes are designed to be sequenced, forming multiple visual and musical arrangements, in a lonely voyage through abstract textures to double blank.
2022: Drops: Variance, SeditionArt 22nd June. Lighthouse, Ninfa 20th May. Fold, Makersplace 24th March. Spin, Makersplace 21st March. Light Emitting Drawing, SeditionArt 16th March. Echo Hills 2, Makersplace 17th March. Echo Hills 1, Makersplace 10th March.
2021: Livestream, DJ – VJ Sets 7.00pm – 3am, Saturday 11th December, Tom Kader, Alex Harmonic, Overlap and guests – Livestreaming from The Refinery. Links posted on the night.
Livestream, DJ – VJ Sets 7.00pm – 3am, Saturday 23rd October, Tom Kader, Alex Harmonic, Overlap and guests – Livestreaming from The Refinery.
Seesaw, Digitial PV 30th September on SeditionArt. A 29 minute audiovisual longplay/mix album. The second of three related audiovisual albums which can be dipped in and out of visually over repeated plays.
Seesaw, AV perfomance: VIII edition Livecinemafestival, Palazzo Brancaccio, Rome, 26th September. A 35 minute mix of Overlap’s second audiovisual album. You see, you saw. The perfect loop is both and neither. Disappearance and re-emergence – durationless.
Livestream, DJ – VJ Sets 7.00pm – 2am, Saturday 4th September, Tom Kader, Alex Harmonic and Overlap – Livestreaming from The Refinery.
Modulated Horizon: Overlap are pleased to be showing new prints with a top selection of artists at the Solaris Gallery Summer Exhibition. Tuesday to Friday, 1pm to 5pm, Saturday 11am to 5pm. Exhibition runs until Saturday 2nd October. St Leonards-on-Sea, UK.
Alluvial Modulation, selected by Arseny Vesnin, founder of Designcollector Network (2003) and curator of the Digital Decade, for his top10 on SuperRare, 25th May.
Field: Limited editon video, prints and paintings at Rye Art Gallery, for ‘Somewhere the Grass is Greener.’ Bringing together artists Nick Archer and Overlap, who’s work explores landscape representation through varying levels of abstraction. Opens, 12th April. Due to Covid restrictions, related events to be confirmed asap.
Veil, Published on SeditionArt, 20th January. Overlap mix texture with scale, details become trees and vistas patterns. We try to complete the image in our minds eye, but continuous discreet developments across the screen confuse our earlier interpretation/s.
NYE. Livestream, DJ – VJ Sets 10.00 – 1 am. Tom Kader, Alex Harmonic and Overlap – Livestreaming from The Bad Times Sound System Studios. Last five minutes from the AV mix.
2020: Overlap talk to architecture and design journalist Louis Wustemann about their new works for SuperRare, 15th October.
Folly, available 16 September on SeditionArt. A 35 minute audiovisual longplay/mix album This is the first of three related audiovisual albums which can be dipped in and out of visually over repeated plays. Overlap discuss Folly with architecture and design journalist Louis Wustemann.
Shuffle Chuckle, (postponed due to Co19). Immersive, multi-projection installation over two floors of the ex-industrial art and music venue The Printworks, Hastings, UK.
Treeline – Overlap’s first crypto art work series on SuperRare, 15th July.
Hayley Cantor of AudiovisualCity Magazine interview Overlap, 16th March.
2019: Editions Show 18, Project 78, St Leonards, 14th December – 12th January.
Rooms, Iterations, published on SeditionArt, 23rd October 2019
Overlap artist talk and panel discussion with SeditionArt – Design Studio Space, The Curtain, London EC2, 7.00 – 9.30pm, 23rd October.
Lights, Iterations, published on SeditionArt – 31st July. Inspired by the vastly different scales and patterns of man made impositions on our landscape: ghosts of utilities; power lines, imagined data paths; architectural plans; wiring diagrams; intimate blinking status LEDs and the theatre of car lights momentarily illuminating a landscape, Lights plays with diagrammatic impositions on nature.
NYE – Overlap will be VJing with DJ Alex Harmonic, headlining the NYE party, The Printworks, Hastings, UK 12pm – 4am.
2018: Prints, Editions Show 18, Project 78, St Leonards, 15th December- 12th January.Verge. In association with VJB Arts, Long & Ryle and Seditionart, 60 Threadneedle St, London EC2, 28th September to 17th January. ‘Verge’ brings together artists Nick Archer, Jenny Pockley and Overlap: creative collaborators who’s work centres upon landscape represented in varying levels of abstraction.
Grounds, Iterations, published on SeditionArt – 26th September. The second set of fourty unique 3 minute video iterations, available on SeditionArt and four related Prints in editions of 5,explore system built landscapes referencing the multi- picture planes of Richard Dadds’ The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke.
Lands, Iterations, published on SeditionArt – 12th April. This transitional painting and print project finds Overlap mixing English copses with New World deserts, to 20 unreleased music tracks, creating 40 unique audiovisual iterations exclusively for SeditionArt Read about the creative process.
Zealous Digital Art Awards, Overlap make the 3 finalists with AV performance, Shuffle Chuckle.
Digital Agenda’s Impact Awards after party – 7th March, Oval Space, London. Music and visuals from Noise of Art’s Ben Osborne and Overlap.
New Album, Medium Fields, OVLP007, Release – 23rd February. Bandcamp exclusive with extra live mix track, Aquamix 12.40. Long sound tracks of soft electric sub station hum merged with moody drawing room melodies. “Medium Fields, however, is an audio-only album and not a multimedia project. Overlap proves that they don’t necessarily need multi-media to paint their atmospheres. The video images will probably be a great addition at live performances, but the audio alone works fine, too!” Ambient Blog.
2017: Trees & Keys, Editions Show 17, Project 78, St Leonards, 16th December- 13th January.
Trees & Keys, shown at Axis, an exhibition of Painting, Photography, Prints and Drawings curated by Alan Rankle for the launch of the Project Space Tracce di Vapore at the Fabbrica del Vapore Arts Centre in Milano.Artists included are: Matthew Radford, Catherine Balet, Oska Lappin, Kirsten Reynolds, Stephen Newton, Walter & Zoniel, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Overlap, Charlotte Snook, Claudia De Grande, Rebecca Youssefi, Tim Craven, Cat Roissetter, and Alan Rankle.
Summer Show, Paintings, Cadogan Contemporary, Kensington, London, July.
Aquatint, selected as one of 5 pieces to be exhibited in Digital Decade 5, an exhibition organised by Design Collector Network, from 25-27 August. The works will be displayed on the Sedition Frame during Digital Decade 5, which takes place in the Hub at Ugly Duck, Tanner Street, London. The winning works are also available as digital editions on the Sedition platform.
Trees & Keys, Installation – Balance Unbalance/ A Sense of Place, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University. August 21 to 23 , Produced by i-DAT in collaboration with the Sustainable Earth Institute, the North Devon’s UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Beaford Arts, the Eden Project and Fulldome,UK.
Aquatint / Different Fields, AV Set – Panorama (in association with Splice Festival) 7pm. 23rd May, Genesis Cinema, London,E14.
Aquatint, AV Set, 8pm, 22th March +Trees & Keys, Installation 17 – 25th March. B-Seite Festival, Mannheim, Germany.
Aquatint, Screening, 2.00pm,16th March , Videoformes, Clermont – Ferrand, France.
Trees & Keys – Mix 1.4, Transitional Painting, limited edition 56 USB keys and Prints, Jessica Carlisle Gallery, Stand G3, London Art Fair, 18-22 January. Mix1.4 – Artsy
2016: Trees & Keys , Installation, Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards, UK, September. Trees & Keys electrifies visions and arrangements of the tree. Combining their melodic-minimal music and visual multi layering, referencing the textural mastery of printmakers such as Hercules Seghers. Edition of 28 individually numbered USB keys containing an 11 min 30 second H264 MPeg4 HD audiovisual mix. Also available is a collection of limited edition “stills” at either 42cm x 42 cm or 42cm x 64cm (including 7cm borders), printed on 350 gsm 100 % cotton Hahnemuhle Museum etching paper, signed by the artists, in editions of 28. Original – Project 78
Aquatint AV Set ,Splice Festival – forms the UK branch of Creative Europe’s AV Node Network, a large scale project which partners 13 art and technology festivals across some of Europe’s biggest cities I’Klectik Art Lab : 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG. June.
Deepening Scenery Lecture. The relationship of painting to the moving image: Part time teaching Sussex Coast College, Fine Art BA, January – ongoing.
Aquatint, screening, Riders on the Mall / ROM, MÜSZI, Budapest. May.
Summer Show, Paintings, Belgravia Gallery, 21 Maddox St, London W1. July – August.
Aquatint, 5 Screen Installation, ISEA2016HK Juried Exhibition, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong.
Aquatint , Installation, Digital Graffiti. Alys Beach, Florida, USA – “finalists for the 2016 festival. 20 artists from 10 countries across the world will gather at Alys Beach to showcase their digital artwork”. May.
Different Fields, Transitional and updated video painting projections curated by House of the Nobleman, 12 Hay Hill, Mayfair, London, March .
Aquatint AV Set & VJ performances, AWAV Warehouse Opening, Peckham London, 5pm – February.
Aquatint screening – VII Edition of MADATAC, Contemporary Audio-Visual & New Media Arts Festival, January, Centro Centro Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid.
Deepening Scenery Lecture. The relationship of painting to the moving image: Hampstead School of Art. 6th June.
20 Small Paintngs, Exhibiton. The Kula, 52 High St, Old Town,Hastings, E.Sussex, April 1st – May 31.
Single screen video and paintings by Michael Denton, Jessica Carlisle, London Art Fair, January.
2015: Single screen video pieces and paintings, solo show, Jessica Carlisle. June.
Forest Tree selected for the STRP Biennale by director Angelique Spaninks as part of the Sedition programme. SCREEN ON | NO SCREEN exhibition at Strijp S in Einhoven, Netherlands.
Alluvium Selected for screening, Espacio Enter 7th Edition, TEA Tenerife. December.
Aquatint audiovisual performance , Museums at Night: INVENTIVE FACTORY, Novium Museum, Chichester. Graveyard Shift .1.
Aquatint audiovisual performance + live VJ/DJ set with Alex Harmonic, GENERATE Shedhalle Tubingen Festival.
Deepening Scenery audiovisual performance selected for ISEA2015: International Symposium on Electronic Art. : Vancouver, August.
Shorlisted, final two, for Wallpaper Magazine, Pullman Hotel – Our World = Your Playground, project. July.
Greylight Green OVEP007 album release. Long play “Edwardian Electronica” by Overlap, Eos and Andy Dragazis.
Overlap/ Michael Denton exhibition, New Paintings and single screen video pieces on display with Jessica Carlisle. June.
Aquatint audiovisual performance premiered in the Artworks exhibition/performance section of Glasgow’s Creativity & Cognition conference June.
Aquatint excerpt from our current AV performance selected for screening at the FIBER festival, May Amsterdam.
Slowsound OVLP006 album release. Long mix super slow installation art piece soundtracks.
Garden by Overlap & Eos. Single release. All proceeds to Warchild.
2014: Jessica Carlisle At Home, group painting exhibition, December, London.
Cloud Edged, Limited editiod single screen video Light Fantastic exhibition, House of the Nobleman, Frieze, 12 Hay Hill London.
Tracks between Trees OVLP005 instrumental album released October.
Cloud Edged limited edition single screen video. Light Fantastic exhibition, House of the Nobleman, Frieze October,12 Hay Hill London W1. Light Fantastic illustrates the continual evolution and adaptation of technology to produce relevant, inspirational and thought-provoking works of art.
Traction Magazine interview with Michael Denton, September.
18th Avanca Film Festival multimedia festival, Portugal July.
Woodbridge Music 2014 new music and arts festival featuring live Overlap visuals, August.
The Counsel of Nice – Celebration of 10 Years of Punkvert Exhibition at Vinyl 4, Tanners Hill Deptford SE8 4PJ. Curation of art from Dirty Honky, Amoeba, Angela Edwards, Babes in Horrorland, Ella Guru, Miss Roberts, Overlap, Punkvert, Sexton Ming, Tom Antona, Tunnelmental Experimental Assembly, Vitascope and Yes! Future.
National Portrait Gallery Lateshift Friday April. Live Music: The Great War in Portraits. Cinema screenings by Overlap, Addictive TV, Coldcut and Mental Overdrive. Supported by Arts Council England.
Village Underground / Booka Shade Friday April. Noise of Art & Village Underground present: Booka Shade (Live), Tom Findlay, The Reflex, + Overlap visuals throughout the night.
Forest Tree limited edition digital artwork launched on Sedition http://www.seditionart.com/overlap.
Trespass an audiovisual installation in the Oriental Room, Fenton House, Hampstead, Summer. A temporary addition to the Fenton House picture collection, contained within an old guilt frame and initially looking like a black and white photograph that mirrors the view from the Oriental Room of Fenton’s North lawn and its charming statue of a shepherd from 1735, merits closer inspection by visitors.
Traction Magazine interview with Michael Denton September.
2013: The Lost Houses, Calke Abbey Audiovisual commission for the Riding Stables of the National Trust’s beautiful Derbyshire “unstately home” portraying the decline of the english country house. From cathedrals of private fantasy to county council demolition order.
Wicker Man – A Disco Inferno On the 40th anniversary of the cult film The Wicker Man, Elefest presents the London debut of Noise of Art‘s club-based music, film and art show inspired by the 1973 British cinema classic, accompanied by spoken word performance from stage and screen star Nathaniel Parker. Hotel Elephant .
Places that Dance AV Set – Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa. MusicBox club, Lisboa Opening with a soundscape of soft white noise and a visual landscape of pure colour, Overlap will gradually build a recognizable world, a cinematic distillation of locations dancing to a mix of found sounds and nu-form house spun by Alex Harmonic.
Wicker Man – A Disco Inferno Latitude Festival Film & Music tent. Groove Armada & Noise of Art.
100 years of Electronic Music and Silent Cinema, BFI, live visuals with Coldcut, Mental Overdrive, Frost and Slow. Noise of Art.
Le Grand Bazaar Damien Hirst bespoke animations for Pete Tong’s new night at Ushuaia, Ibiza, animating original Damien Hirst artwork for Microchunk’s visual residency.
s[edition] limited edition artworks launched June, www.seditionart.com/overlap.
100 Years of Electronic Music Launch Party live VJ performance, May Village Underground Noise of Art.
Lateshift, National Portrait Gallery: live projections, a delicate mix of Rayograms and early electronic music scores with Ben Osborne/ Noise of Art.
The Lost Houses, Calke Abbey Audiovisual commission for the Riding Stables of the National Trust’s beautiful Derbyshire “unstately home” portraying the decline of the english country house. From cathedrals of private fantasy to county council demolition order. Opening.
Returning awarded special mention, Avanca Film Festival, Portugal.
Switch alternative music video: 26th European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, selected for EMAF Artbox ; de:sonanz Festival for Electronic Music and Media Arts Skopje.
100 Years of Electronic Music Launch Party live VJ performance, May Village Underground Noise of Art.
Lateshift, National Portrait Gallery: live projections, a delicate mix of Rayograms and early electronic music scores with Ben Osborne/ Noise of Art.
2012: Visual Serialism lecture, The Fridge Dubai. Seminar and workshop.
Sandsplash, The Printworks, America Ground, Hastings. Paintings exhibition – 8 new works.
Noise of Art’s Psychedelic Magical Mystery Tour Gala event at at London’s BFI. Screening of Overlap’s visual remix of The Magical Mystery tour film + live VJing at the after show party.
Latitude Festival Deepfield Echo audiovisual forest installation in the Faraway Forest.
Noise of Art’s Psychedelic Curiosity Show, Latitude Festival Film & Music tent – live visuals.
HARMONICA Ovarlap curated and designed, visual clubnight, The Printworks Hastings.
Pool Disco Ushuaia beach hotel Ibiza: bespoke visuals for Microchunk’s summer residency.
Abu Dhabi Contemporary Art closing party – live visuals and AV set for the closing party, with Noise of Art.
UK Now Festival launch party – live AV performance. An evening of classical and electronic music in the gardens of the British Ambassadors Residence – part of the largest festival of British arts and creative industries ever held in China, with Noise of Art.
2011: Anna May Wong: Stilled in Film screening, National Maritime Museum London, “Traders Unpacked”.
Attack The Block Party, Latitude Festival. Film & Music tent, bespoke visuals and live VJ performance with Noise of Art.
Anna May Wong – Stilled in Film screening, National Maritime Museum Traders Unpacked exhibition.
Belgravia Gallery, Mayfair, London – summer shows – new paintings.
Sketch club New Years Eve – Noise of Art’s Pyschedelic Curiosity, a new immersive club event featuring music, art, film, performance, dance, surround projections and occurrences of curiosity. 360 degree visuals by Overlap (Noise of Art).
2010: Anna May Wong: Stilled in Film National Portrait Gallery, London. Transported from her starring role in EA Dupont’s 1928 classic, “Piccadilly”, into a landscape of gradually changing backgrounds – a slowly moving portrait in a gallery of stills.
BMX Beats commission, Lancashire County Council/ New Cultural Journeys, premiere, 53 Degrees Preston. Interactive live audiovisual performance with content triggered by strategically positioned lasers, forming a BMX controlled music video environment projected onto the ramps and surrounding screens.
Exit Festival Slovenia, Dance Stage live visuals (Microchunk).
Belgravia Gallery, Mayfair, London – summer shows – new paintings.
Rendelsham: UFO, Latitude Festival, Film & Music tent , bespoke visuals and live VJ performance with Noise of Art.
De La Warr Pavilion Random Fridays – audiovisual performance.
Sketch Club Mayfair NYs Eve, 360 degree sci-fi visuals (Noise of Art).
Deepening Scenery OVLP004 release.
2009: Belgravia Gallery Mayfair, London. Abstraction group exhibition – new paintings.
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust award received for painting acheivment.
Glow Blink Slow EP OVEP006 Recommended Downtempo & Electronica Audiojelly website.
Love Bites: Dance of the Vampires Latitude Festival, Film & Music tent bespoke visuals and live VJ performance with Noise of Art.
Electric Picnic festival, Dublin, Deepfield Echo audiovisual installation.
Class & Corruption Arts Council awarded theatre production. Stage visuals design and creation.
East End Film Festival, London, Piccadilly Nites screening.
Velven video awarded special mention,Tilt Festival.
Brighton Festival, live audiovisual performance “Piccadilly Nights” Brighton Dome.
Ether Festival, Royal Festival Hall – live visuals.
2008: Piccadilly Nites British Film Institute, London. Audiovisual performance using footage from EA Dupont’s silent 1929 classic “Piccadilly”.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London: “French Connection Friday Late: Cold War Modern”.
Parallel Place, Todds Gallery, Hastings old town. audiovisual installation, oils on canvas.
Velven EP OVEP005 Top 10, Play it Tonight and Clubvibes websites.
Piccadilly Nites Version 1 release: Overlap re-edit of E A Duchamp’s 1928 classic, “Piccadilly”, from the BFI archive to a soundtrack by Les Hommes du Train. Premiered at the BFI Southbank.
Wonderland, Eden, Ibiza. Guest visuals for Microchunk’s visual residency (Pete Tong, Deadmou5, Groove Armada).
Positivus Festival, Riga, visuals (Microchunk).
French Connection Friday Late: Cold War Modern V&A Museum, bespoke visuals and live VJ performance with Noise of Art.
Deepfield Echo audiovisual forest installation: Hove Festivalen Norway, Electric Picnic Festival Dublin.
Secret Garden festival, live VJ performance with New Young Pony Club and The Pierces.
Sliding Lights OVLP003, Likely and Sliding Door recommended Downtempo Top Ten, Audiojelly.
2007: AAF New York, group show oil on aluminium.
Festival Pomladi, Llubljana, Slovenia live VJ performance with Noise of Art.
London Games Fringe, audiovisual performance.
Jour de Fete, de la Warr Pavilion, audiovisual performance.
Industrial Resolution, Manchester International Festival Comissioned visuals for a screen forming the entire height of the former G Mex building, the largest indoor screen in the world at the time. Microchunk artists created and performed custom-designed, multi-media to the soundscape of the world’s leading DJs, including 2 Many DJs, Carl Cox, Fatboy Slim, Laurent Garnier, Layo, Pete Tong and Sasha. (Microchunk).
Creamfields Andalucia live VJ performance on the main stage with Steve Bug, Misstress Barbara and Booka Shade.
Settling in Space OVDS003.
Repaint EP OVEP004 Andy Dragazis remixes.
2006: Audio – Visual Art and VJ Culture, published 11/06. Overlap featured in “an in-depth look at the artists at the forefront of this amazing audio-visual experience”.
Dark Drive video (Electric Paint) screenings: Noise of Art Festival, Tate Britain; Optronica Festival, BFI South Bank.
Latitude Festival Film & Music tent. Live audiovisual performance with Andy Dragazis of Blue States. Overlap’s first outing with Ben Osborne’s Noise of Art collective, the first of an annual Latitude appearance.
Audio – Visual Art and VJ Culture, published 11/06. Overlap featured in “an in-depth look at the artists at the forefront of this amazing audio-visual experience”.
FADED OVLP002 music release. A collection of distilled music from 1992-2004.Originally released as soundtracks to the audiovisual albums Sprinkler Topiary (1992 MPD Re10 VHS. 48mims) & Open (1994 MPD Re12 VHS. 26mins), premiered at Video Plastique in Normandy and London’s Pandemonium festival at the ICA and released on the long play video label Music Picture Disc. 1992-2004.
Electric Paint OVLP001 review “..it’s ghostly acoustic sound evokes the likes of The Cure yet has a moody charm all of its own…this should join the likes of Air and Kevin shields as a soundtrack staple” Music Week magazine.
2005: Discovery Dock West foyer, 6’6” squ corporate painting commission, luxury Docklands development Canary Wharf, London.
Overlap start regular visual slots at Razzmatazz (Loft), Barcelona as part of Microchunk’s resident visuals team.
VJ set Organic Grooves, Brooklyn, New York.
AV set, DK Projects, Chelsea NY .
Film score composition for Kevin Thomas’s True Love (Once Removed) which won the best short film award at Palm Springs and Houston Film Festivals, was selected for Clermont Ferrand, London Raindance and LA Short Film Festival and qualifyied for Oscar nomination.
2004: AAF New York, Landscapes, paintings on canvas. Discovery Dock East foyer.
Overlap perform visuals at the Glade Stage, Glastonbury with Microchunk.
Live visuals Bangkok Supper Club, Taipei (Microchunk).
TV commercial score Soul Calibre II Playstation, Thomas Thomas.
2003,4,5: Downstream leftfield music video broadcast internationally on Addicitve TV’s ITV1 produced Mixmasters series.
2003: Upstream single screen video. Screenings: Hamburg International Short Film Festival / ICA VJ Shorts Festival.
48 Small Paintings exhibition 291 Gallery, London. A series of 11” square oil on boards.
Overlap start working with Microchunk moving image boutique.
Visualmusic DVD release, distributed Artomatic, Magma Books, Tate Modern, Design Museum “30 minutes of distilled music and visual mixes of cities, oceans and landscapes”. Track listing: Open (shortform), Deep Space Angel (shortform), Overlap 9, Overlap 10, Meniscus, Upstream Digital compositing & editing: Jamie Shiels/The Boutique.
Upstream single screen video. Screenings: Hamburg International Short Film Festival; ICA VJ Shorts Festival.
2002: Nearstill sound responsive installation, Big Chill Enchanted Garden Art Trail 2001: Nearstill Online and CD ROM project in collaboration with Solaris Media
2000: Overlap 10 single screen video plastic portrait of LA, Britart Gallery Tomorrow Gate exhibition. Overlap 9 single screen video (4:30 mins). Editing and digital compositing: Moving Picture Co. Overlap 10:Portrait of LA audiovisual installation.
Overlap 10 “Plastic portrait of LA” audiovisual installation, London’s Britart Gallery Tomorrow Gate exhibition; Nehru Centre Mumbai.
Overlap VJ Millenium gig with The Chemical Brothers.
1999: Overlap formed with Anna McCrickard as a platform for music, electronic art and music industry/festival activities including single screen videos,VJing, audiovisual screenings and installations.
Overlap become regular guest VJ’s (with resident VJ/DJ’s Reality Check) at The Gallery, London calling & City Loud at Turnmills Night Club, London.
All titles below released under artist name Michael Denton.
1999: Deep Space Angel single screen video installation, Nehru Centre, Mumbai,Camera: Jerry Chater, Editing: Framestore. Open (3:10 mins), Deep Space Angel ( 2:45 mins) shortform versions for MTV Editing: Bryan Dyke/Company B.
1997: Strange Cartoons painting exhibition, BBC TV Centre foyer, London, Corporate commissions for Lexington Post, London W1 and The Mill, London W1.
1996: Domino Series painting exhibition, 142 Farringdon Rd, London.
1994: Open (Music Picture Disc Re12 VHS 26mins) screened at London’s ICA and the Big Chill Festival1994: Open, single screen video screening, Video Plastique Festival, France.
Submarine Forest single screen video screening, Melbourne Moving Image Festival.
Open (Music Picture Disc Re12 VHS 26mins) Screenings: ICA, Big Chill, Megatripolis, Heaven “Open into a landscape of shimmering woodlands, forgotten houses, towers, distilled music.” Digital compositing & editing: Tim Webber/Framestore Vocals: Rebecca Holweg. Open, single screen video screening, Video Plastique Festival, France.
1992-1997: ongoing painting installs, central London TV and Film Post Production houses Glassworks, Rainbow, The Mill, Framestore, Moving Picture Company.
Sprinkler Topiary (Music Picture Disc Re10 VHS 42mins) distributed Virgin/HMV, Heure Exquise “Ever changing landscape for repeated viewing” Screened: Video Plastique, October Gallery (VJing debut with Matt Black).
1990: Submarine Forest (Music Picture Disc Re4 VHS) single screen video. Premiere screening, Pompidou Centre Paris – part of the LUX touring exhibition.
Slow Garden (Music Picture Disc Re3 audio cassette 50mins) released on Rough Trade Records
1989: Places That Dance (Music Picture Disc Re2 VHS 30mins) premiered at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, distributed by the LUX Centre, Virgin and HMV . Artist “Film Makers on Tour” awards 1989 : Places That Dance (Music Picture Disc Re2 VHS 30mins) distributed LUX Centre, Virgin/HMV “Cut up 16mm motorcycling and landscape collage video mixes for home visuals” Track listing : The Getaway, Desert Plane, Motorcycle Pylon, Arrival, Submarine Forest Premiered: Pompidou Centre.
1987: Art in Your Own Time (Music Picture Disc Re1 VHS) single screen video premiered at London’s ICA. South West Arts Award for 16mm landscape study received. Arts Council Award for 16mm Shakespeare Cliff study received. 16mm & video titles held in permanent collection by UK Arts Council funded LUX organization: Arrival, Middle Middle Beginning, Motor Cycle/Pylon, Plane Wave, Submarine Forest, Vacuum, Watertight.
Art in Your Own Time Premiered: ICA .
1986: Telephone Music (Telephone Music tel 001) with Philip Sanderson & Naomi Snatch Tapes / Rough Trade.
1983/4: Parker, Press Conference, Crosschair, Drill Piece, Simulator, Michael: single screen videos exhibited as Subvert Videos /Young Contemporaries at the ICA (under alias Elizabeth Bond).
1981: Snatch 3 (audio cassette TCH300)/ Snatch Tapes/ Rough Trade.
Michael Denton, Born 1959 Dorset, England, 1983: BA Honours Degree, Time Based Media Fine Art, Maidstone College of Art,1985: MA Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art, London.
Anna Mc Crickard, Born 1974 Kasama, Zambia, 1996: BA Honours Degree, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Music & imagery Overlap, (p)(c) 1999-2024 Overlap