# animate! › Films › Flat Earth by Thomson & Craighead › direction & collaboration

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, 3d cgi, satellite imagery, internet, globalisation, online voices, documentary, filmmaker, artist

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**Flat Earth** a film by Thomson & Craighead

[Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead](https://thomson-craighead.net)

in production

### Thomson & Craighead

#### short biography

Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead are artists based in London working primarily with video, sound and electronic networked space to create gallery and site-specific artworks and installations. They both trained in Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and then worked briefly in video and sound design in the media industry. They have exhibited widely from Tate Britain to The New Museum in New York, and are among the leading UK artists using communications systems and technology in their work.

June 2006

#### artist’s website

[Thomson & Craighead](http://www.thomson-craighead.net)

Thomson & Craighead's website

### Steve Rushton

#### short biography

Steve Rushton is a writer, editor and filmmaker based in Rotterdam. Recent publications include *Experience, Memory, Re-enactment* (2005), *The Milgram Re-enactment* (2003) and *Hurts So Good* (2003). He is a regular contributor to a number of art journals.

June 2006

**Flat Earth** film, stills and other materials © Thomson & Craighead 2006