Nicole Hewitt (born in London, 1965) is an artist and professor of animated film and new media art. She graduated from the Brighton Academy of Fine Arts in 1986 and earned her Master's degree in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Art in 2002.[1][2] She has a PhD at the Slade School of Art and the Department of Anthropology at University College London.[2]

Career as a filmmaker

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Since 1986, Nicole Hewitt has been working in animated and experimental film, with her works regularly featured at international festivals and exhibitions. Her films In Dividu (1999) and In Between (2002) have won multiple awards at festivals such as Croatian Film Days, Hiroshima International Festival of Animation, and the Split Film Festival.[1][3] She is currently the head of the Department of Animated Film and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she teaches animation and experimental film.[1][2]

Artistic career

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In her works, Hewitt explores the documentary language and fictional structures, questioning the specificities of film, performative, and theoretical languages. Alongside her filmmaking practice, she engages in research on the theory and practice of contemporary art.[4]

She also participated in The Visible Ones exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. Hewitt organizes, curates, and co-curates numerous workshops, exhibitions, and seminars, such as TIP in collaboration with Art Workshop Lazareti, as well as Protokol SC and Kiborgezija.

In 2022, she received the Vedran Šamanović Award.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "HFS | Hrvatski filmski savez | Produkcija - Autori | Nicole Hewitt". www.hfs.hr. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  2. ^ a b c "Kinematografije otpora – Nicole Hewitt: Žene minorne spekulacije, sekvenca 5 (Mutacije)". www.msu.hr. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  3. ^ "Nicole Hewitt: Studentski Centar je uništen i to je ogroman gubitak za film, kao i za Zagreb". tportal.hr. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  4. ^ Kontošić, Martina (2017-01-10). "Logika kapitalizma preuzela je proizvodnju umjetnosti". Kulturpunkt. Retrieved 2024-10-14.