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dSCAPE/07 Animation Night
Nicky Gogan - Biography
Nicky Gogan, a 1993 graduate of the National College of Art and Design, began her professional art career with a number of site specific performances and video works in the early nineties. Having a great interest in new media and the artistic use of technology, she trained at one of the worlds first multimedia companies in the world, Organa in New York, and returned to Ireland to become one of the first instructors in the creative use of technology on the web at Arthouse in 1996.
Nicky was one of the first active advocates of digital film-making in Ireland. She set up the Darklight Film Festival in 1999, which has gone from strength to strength over the past seven years. The festival has a broad range of commitments to Irish and international film makers working in interesting ways; providing a screening platform for new work, facilitating seminars, providing network opportunities for film makers and running a national an international touring programme.
Nicky's work as a curator/programmer has been seen at Darklight, and in her work as curator of Exhibit series at The Digital Hub where she also initiated and chaired the Talk Digital seminar series.
Nicky is also co-founder of Sink Digital Media, a Dublin based new media production company. Since its inception in 1997, Sink has remained committed to fostering and developing innovation in design.
Nicky produced Paul Rowley's first feature film As Láthair and is currently working with Paul on their first collaborative feature project as director/producer, a feature documentary titled Mosney which tells the story of asylum seekers in a rapidly changing Ireland. She is currently developing other film productions with the newly founded Still Films.
Nicky is also a founding member of DATA, the Dublin Art and Technology Association, a development group to encourage creative dialogue between film, art, and technology.
Nicky has recently launched Ireland's first digital channel for short films and animation, Wildlight Channel won first prize for mobile content at the 2006 Digital Media Awards.
Awards also include nomination for 'Multi Media Person of the Year', Digital Media Awards 2003, 2004 and winner of 'Innovation Award' Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards 2003. The Wildlight Channel was nominated at Mipcom Mobile TV Awards in Cannes 2006.