Steven McInerney

Director, producer, screenwriter, multimedia artist

Australia

Career : 8 years

Steven McInerney is an Australian artist born in 1983 in Melbourne and based in London. He works with various time-based media, combining 16mm projection, digital projection, and spatial sound to create expanded cinematic forms, live audiovisual performances, and installations. His work explores behavioral responses to emergent phenomena, using time-based media systems for exploration.

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Biography

Steven McInerney, born in 1983 in Melbourne, is an Australian artist living in London. His artistic career is marked by an exploration of time-based media, combining 16mm film, digital projection, and spatial sound. He creates expanded forms of cinema, live audiovisual performances, and immersive installations.

His work focuses on behavioral responses to emergent phenomena, using time-based media systems as tools for exploration. His cinematic works navigate dichotomous energies, meditating between the sacred and the profane.

He has directed several short films such as "A Creak in Time (2017)", "A Creak Retimed" (2018), "Projected Music" (2019), "Tape Letters from the Waiting Room" (2020), "In Our Mind’s Eye" (2021), "Decomposition" (2022), "Trilateral Descent" (2022), "Codicies" (2023), and "A Monster with its Mouth Agape" (2024)