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Work Background

Freelance ArtistNew Media Artist (Photography, Video, Digital graphics) / Composer

Aug. 1976Florianópolis Area, BrazilScott MacLeay holds a MSc. degree in economics from the London School of Economics and left his doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia to pursue a career in photography in Vancouver. In 1979, he moved to Paris to dedicate himself full-time to his exhibition work that was represented in Paris by the Galérie Créatis and in New York by the Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery. He has exhibited widely in galleries and national museums in North/South America, Europe and Japan and his images are present in numerous private and museum collections. In the 1980s, he was named Director of the Center for Media Art and Photography (CMAP) of the avant-garde American Center in Paris where he devoted himself to teaching, developing cutting-edge pedagogical programs for young artists and producing audio-visual projects for the Center. He left analogue photographic work in 1988 to compose contemporary music for video art, special format cinema and contemporary dance as well as for his musical research group Private Circus, an activity that sparked his interest in digital imagery and online technologies. The group recorded several CDs of MacLeay’s work including Small Crowds , a contemporary opera and The Other Side of the Story , a compilation of works composed for contemporary dance. Since moving to Brazil in 2010 he divides his time between new media creations, musical composition, the exploration of online interactivity and curating exhibitions for Brazilian new media artists. In 2011, he founded The Creative Process, a movement devoted to teaching/developing new media and interactive work in Brazil. He offers public lectures / workshops / courses at major cultural institutions in various cities. He is the author of the book of essays Thinking, Feeling, And Seeing: Perception and Process in Photography (2015 Editora Photos) and the photo books Quadrichromie 1978-1988 (2018 Creative Process) and Encounters in the Right and Left Hemispheres (2020 Creative Process).

the-creative-process.orgCurator

Jan. 1981Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, BrazilMacLeay began curating photographic exhibitions for the advanced students of the American Center in Paris in 1981 and organized an annual exhibition of work during the Festival of Arles in France until 1987. He began to curate new media exhibitions and installations upon his arrival in Brazil in 2010 and in 2011 created Creative Process, an organization dedicated to the promotion of new media art (education/publishing/curating)

the-creative-process.orgFounder and Professor

Jun. 2011Florianópolis Area, Brazilthe-creative-process.org is the first stage of the educational branch of a Tech Arts development project designed to offer an innovative creative environment to young artists in the fields of Photography, Video Art and New Media. Workshops/Portfolio critiques/Seminars are offered in the context of Photo Festivals in addition to regular on-site courses / workshops in major cultural institutions and universities (Florianópolis, São Paulo, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Rio,...) and in the form of on-line courses in English, French and Portuguese. Future plans call for international seminars, exhibitions and artist exchange programs to be organized.

Self-employedMusic Composer

Feb. 1982 - Dec. 2020Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, BrazilIn 1988, after more than ten years of exhibiting worldwide as a photographic artist, Scott MacLeay left the visual arts to devote himself full-time to composing and recording music for contemporary dance, video art and for his pick-up group Private Circus. It is difficult to categorize the work of Private Circus. It was an eccentric hybrid of contemporary music, cabaret and alternative rock. Small Crowds was their first CD (1990) and was conceived as a series of intertwined nocturnal processions – a collection of night arias and assorted urban love songs set in a universe populated by an assortment of anonymous marginal personalities wandering aimlessly through the night, stopping from time to time to reflect on their respective destinies. A new compilation of music, The Other Side of the Story, composed for dances choreographed by Nadège MacLeay and performed by her company in Paris and other French regional capitals from 1990 to 1996 was released in March 2021. Celtic Days, Latin Nights, an album of unreleased demos of alternative country-rock songs originally recorded in the 90s, completes the trio of albums recorded by Private Circus in Paris. Core members Scott MacLeay and Christel Desjardin were joined by a diverse variety of musicians that changed depending on the needs of each project. Among these, Canadian guitarist Peter Rist and French soprano Sophie Boulin participated in Small Crowds, with Rist returning for Celtic Days, Latin Nights. The group disbanded in 1996, but MacLeay continued to produce work under the group's name. A fourth album, Locked Doors, Open Windows, containing material MacLeay composed in Paris and in Florianópolis, was released in June 2021.

Nogatec InternationalManaging Director

Apr. 1993 - Nov. 2009Courbevoie, Île-de-France, FranceNogatec International was the international project development and consulting division of MacLeay SARL, a cultural project company that framed Scott MacLeay's artistic and promotional projects in a wide range of mediums. Nogatec International was one of the first members of the U.N. Global Compact in France, a program designed to mobilize private organizations in the promotion of 10 U.N. principles guiding the improvement of human rights, the environment, working conditions and the fight against corruption worldwide.

(Third Party Companies and MacLeay SARL)Audio Project Producer & Consultant / Audiovisual Project Analysis and Auditing

Mar. 1982 - Dec. 2003Paris, Île-de-France, FranceAudio Production for video art and contemporary dance 1982 - 1997 Director of Musique, Media Art & Photographie (MMAP) in Paris, France 1987 - 1999 Digital Audio Production Projects (Producer and Consultant) 1987 - 2001 Consulting for the development of themed development projects and technology-based tourism vectors for Hong Kong and mainland China in collaboration with Chinese Architect / Designer Dr Tao Ho.

American Center for Artists in ParisDirector of the Center for Media Art and Photography / Founder of Photography Dept. (1980 - 1987)

Sep. 1980 - Jul. 1987Paris, FranceCreator of Photographic Arts Program 1980, Photography Professor 1980-1987, Amalgamation of Photo, Video and Electronic Music activities in 1985 to Form the Center for Merdia Art and Photography: Activities included AV Productions/co-productions, Exhibitions, International Public Lecture Series, Artist "Rencontres" / Residencies, AV Classes and Workshops