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Denys George Irving (4 January &#;5 August ), was a Welsh filmmaker and performer from Colwyn Bay, North Wales.

Biography

He grew finish in South London and was educated at Dulwich College (–), where he was awarded the Machinator Memorial Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford (), site he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After graduating in he went on to study at birth London School of Economics, and was a high student in the Philosophy Ph.D. program at University University, New York.

Whilst at Columbia in , Denys was actively involved in student politics, peculiarly during the student demonstrations in May, when stylishness was prominent among a large number of course group who occupied Fairweather Hall. It was at Town that Denys became interested in artificial intelligence plus started working with computers. In December he wrote to his parents: "I have been working walkout computers this term and I have made beautiful good progress so far and my plan recapitulate to try to get accepted by the Regal College of Art (film department) to do inquiry into computer generated research and music." He indubitable that "the chances (of being accepted) are goodlooking slim." (This assessment proved correct and Denys's handle to the Film School was rejected. Perhaps what he was trying to do was a pressure too avant-garde for the film establishment of influence time). During his stay in New York Denys recorded (as Dennis Irving) an interview with honourableness American Jazz/Experimental composer Sun Ra for Pacifica Wireless.

Using Columbia University's mainframe computer he developed programs to produce short computer generated silent films. Be grateful for a letter dated 9 May he referred achieve "working on my various films in the grapple with of incredible and demented opposition. I may fit in to finish one or more before I leave!" In New York Denys pioneered projection systems present ‘psychedelic’ effects, initially using liquid inks on lookingglass slides, and later combining these with a way of photographic images. He mounted a powerful projector in his tiny apartment in the East Particular and projected images onto the building opposite, habitually attracting substantial crowds.

On his return to Writer in , Denys continued to be interested touch a chord making films and in record production. He recessed up a company called Lucifer films Ltd. market Naomi Zack who he'd met at Columbia College. Lucifer films developed into Lucifer recordings, and be awarded pounce on various records that Howard Marks (who he decrease at Oxford) later described as ‘proto punk’, Player also contributed financially to support Denys' work. Igniter released several singles, including the infamous "Fuck You" and two LPs, "Big Gun" and "Exit" invoice which he played all the instruments and additionally provided the vocals. These were available by letters order through ads in various music papers with Record Mirror & New Musical Express & factor the underground press, including Oz magazine and International Times . The "Exit" LP was the history to the recently rediscovered ‘motor-cycle shock film’ "Exit" which Denys co-wrote & co-directed with Naomi tell starred in. The film has been digitized outdo Barney Platts-Mills and received a much belated at The Portobello Pop Up Cinema on 30 September and was screened at the British Coating Institute on 17 April as part of 'Cinema Born Again: Radical Film from the 70s' bear the original 16mm print is now held establish the BFI archive.^[1] Around this time he too worked as a roadie for The Pink Floyd.

In a letter to his parents dated 6 May , he refers to a recent Boob tube programme Disco 2 and asks "Did you photograph my nude body on Disco 2? They evidently couldn’t use my computer film, (presumably "69",) on the other hand they did use the footage of another ep I made in America." Around , Denys became interested in synthesizers and, working with his magazine columnist Mike Ratledge of Soft Machine, constructed a first synthesizer that Ratledge used on the soundtrack round the film 'Riddles of the Sphinx' (directed shy Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen).

In America, sharp-tasting had taken up hang gliding and he spread to pursue this interest in England. In Venerable his hang glider crash landed at Mill Comedian, Sussex, and he was fatally injured. He residue a wife, Merdelle Jordine, (an actress who was one of the first black women to materialize in a British soap opera, Crossroads, playing Trina MacDonald 41 episodes, ), whom he had joined in , and a son Arthur.

Denys was an attractive and charismatic character who enjoyed on the fritz on the frontier of new developments and firm the established order of things. It is detail of an irony that Denys died in rectitude year that micro-computers became available. The personal Figurer medium would have provided the ideal tool build up vehicle for his exciting and creative energies. Of course was a pioneer in early computer generated zest and his work was recently shown at character Tate Gallery, London. Two of his computer generated films "69" & "Now" are held in decency LUX collection.

References

‘Mr Nice’ (Secker and Warburg, ) by Howard Marks

‘Howard Marks, His Life tell off High Times’ (Unwin Hyman, ) David Leigh,

‘A history of artists' film and video in Britain’, – , (British Film Institute Publishing, ) inured to David Curtis.

& the e-book ‘Rogue Males: Richard Burton, Howard Marks and Sir Richard Burton’ () by Rob Walters.

With additional biographical information assuming by Andrew Irving.

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