Winterburn, Neil

B.A. (Hon’s) 2:1 1999 Fine Art Liverpool John Moores University
Connect Training 2000 Multimedia Liverpool University

Grants/Fellowships
2000-2002 Drawlab Artists bursary St Helens College

Digital/media art

Flunstellas are a psychic/paranormal phenomenon that I made up.
Each Flunstella is a network of an individuals language/thoughts that appears to float through a social space. Flunstellas are often seen interpolating together as they,,,,
Sorry, I’m getting carried away there they’re not really real, its just a way of putting a lot of serious creative investigations of inter subjectivity into, what I hope is a more simple & fun narrative.
I have developed the Flunstellas idea further by creating the Flunstellas Organisation, which I pretend was founded in 2003 to support research into the Flunstellas phenomenon.
I distribute Flunstellas projects online via the www.flunstellas.org web site.

My artistic practice over the past five years has been centred around working with groups of people to try & create representations of what Flunstellas would look like if they really did exist.
These have taken the forms of installations/interventions in real physical spaces using a variety of materials, which have been turned into interactive digital projects & collaborative projects based in digital space.
These have been distributed as CD-Roms or as downloads available from www.flunstellas.org.

Two new Flunstellas projects will be launched in March 2007.

‘Boxroom’ was a collaborative miniature installation, created by 5 members of Sola Arts & myself within a
model diorama of a living room.’Boxroom’ was initially exhibited at the National portrait gallery last year &
has been transformed into an immersive interactive project which will be available to download in march.

‘PPPAAAARRRRTTTTYYY!!!’ will enable myself & two anonymous collaborators to each create an interactive,
audio/visual manifestation of our private thoughts, fears & memories. These will be projected digitally into a
traditional party scene.

‘PPPAAAARRRRTTTTYYY!!!’ & ‘Boxroom’ will be distributed from www.flunstellas.org from march ’07.
Launch events for, & exhibitions of these works will be confirmed nearer the time.

Left Right of Centre Static Gallery, Liverpool Nov 1999

Earlier Ideas cd-rom * Dec 2000

TweePrototype cd-rom * Sept 2002

Drawlab World of Glass Gallery, St Helens Sept 2002

Cocktail sticks cd-rom * June 2003

Bluescreen cd-rom * Sept 2003

Flunstellas cd- rom *, Sept 2004
(2000 distributed with NERVE magazine)

3D_AZ cd-rom * Dec 2004

Why don’t you? cd-rom * Jun 2005

Look at Me National Portrait Gallery Sept 2005

www.flunstellas.org web site launch Nov 2006

Ping_pong YouTube Dec 2006

*Unless otherwise stated cd-roms distributed in shops & Galleries around merseyside such as
News From Nowhere (bookshop), Probe (Record shop), JumpShip Rat (Arts centre/Exhibition space),
or via peer to peer networks.