Interview 2: Christopher Thomas Allen, Founder and Director, the Light Surgeons

Steve Gibson

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Interview 2: Christopher Thomas Allen, Founder and Director, the Light Surgeons

Steve Gibson^*

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The Light Surgeons are key players in the live cinema movement, producing works of complex live audio-visuals with a quasi-narrative and/or documentary form. They have also produced concert visuals, commercial productions, broadcast films and gallery installations. They have worked with artists and companies as diverse as The Rolling Stones, the National Maritime Museum, and Getty Images. In this interview director Chris Allen talks to Steve Gibson about their beginnings in the 1990s as analogue video performers, through to their development as concert visualists and finally to their more recent live cinema performances such as SuperEverything^*.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Live Visuals
Subtitle of host publication	History, Theory, Practice
Editors	Steve Gibson, Stefan Arisona, Donna Leishman, Atau Tanaka
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Pages	392-406
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003282396
ISBN (Print)	9781032252612, 9781032252681
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003282396-22
Publication status	Published - 29 Jul 2022

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Name	Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Publisher	Routledge

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Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice. ed. / Steve Gibson; Stefan Arisona; Donna Leishman; Atau Tanaka. London: Taylor & Francis, 2022. p. 392-406 (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies).

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