Trained in sculpture and printmaking, Trevor Batten was always curious about how what we see and what we hear shape one another. When portable video cameras arrived, he found the perfect tool to explore it. Audio-Visual III (1978) is an early example of that curiosity at work, on view in Pioneers of Media Art at Nxt Museum until January 10, 2027.
From Printmaker to Video Experimenter
In the late 1960s, a time of change and experimentation, Trevor Batten studied at Brighton College of Art, where he worked with fellow artist Harry Ball on lithographs that treated printmaking as a conceptual art of ideas, from prints ripped into four pieces and sold separately to others sold with a free plastic duck. In those years, he also turned towards the computer, a hint of the path he would later follow into sound and video.
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