All videos are available for exhibition, on loan or rotation. Ideally shown floor-to-ceiling, in a darkened gallery space, where you can feel the full immersion of the audio and visual experience. Contact: info@nullemmaplunkett.art

Looped Video Art

I’m a Barcelona-based experimental video artist. My work ranges from slow, meditative loops (made for projection or screen), to live VJ mixes that layer and cut video clips to music. Across both, I film everything from scratch – my friends and the world around me, and then I make patterns using mirroring, luma key and cuts to build well considered compositions. For me, my live video mixing is like a colourful moving painting made out of real life.

Laurie Anderson’s art installations are my biggest influence – her brutal honesty, spiritual depth and humanness never ceases to move me.

Soft Prominence

16:9 ratio, 8K, seamless loop. Duration: 2 min 56 sec. Date: 2025.
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Ethereal Escapade

16:9 ratio, 4K, seamless loop. Duration: 1 min. Date: 2025.
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The Eternity of Visual Noise

1:1 ratio, 4K, seamless loop. Duration: 1 min or 3 min 56 sec. Date: 2022.
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Beauty in a Grotesque Realm

16:9 ratio, HD, seamless loop. Duration: 48 sec. Date: 2022.
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Themes

My themes include nature, industry, graphics, moving water, fire and anything automated. Friends in action are often the centrepieces to my layouts – a swimmer in a wild body of water, her mirrored splashes looking like angel wings. I created a glamorous widow’s costume in The Arrival and got the performer to walk endlessly down grand staircases, then gave her a gentle, delayed ghost in negative. And then there’s my friend, Profesor Bacterio, in his pink suit and swanky shoes – I got him to interact with our local environment…

Profesor Bacterio

VJ clips cut to music. Duration: 1 min. Date: 2025.
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The Arrival

16:9 ratio, 4K, seamless loop. Duration: 3 min 09 sec. Date: 2025.
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Incantation for El Carmel

16:9 ratio, HD, seamless loop. Duration: 2 min 57 sec. Date: 2025.
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My Process

Everything that moves is considered a subject for my videos – always making sure I have enough battery charge and memory space on my camera. I make 2–10 second clips that I save in a filing system with categories such as Abstracts, Animals, Architecture, Art and so on. I load the clips into Modul8 VJ software where I can apply real-time effects like kaleidoscope and luma key, and change the speed of the clips.

A Visual Journey with Dubversive

VJ clips cut to music. Duration: 2 min 36 sec. Date: 2025.
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Liquid Light

VJ clips cut to music. Duration: 2 min 44 sec. Date: 2025.
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VJ Miss Plunkett

My husband (#crs1138) and I have been VJing together for 20 years, we usually set up by the DJ or band – we have all the kit! I have two pre-made video mixes, each around 25 minutes in duration, that I can easily crossfade over to from the live visuals, using our Roland vision mixer. For the live mixing, I arrange and layer seamless loops together, building an ever changing visual harmony on screen – the endless combinations of the subjects tell their own story. Clips are selected that reflect the mood – insects, bubbles, sparks, vehicles, flashing lights, underwater life, cogs – and beautiful flowers that I’ve lifted from their backgrounds, that I rotate slowly. I turn ordinary movement into something dreamlike. My husband’s mixing style makes my clips look even more magical.

Furney Featuring Lady Emz – Tell Mee

VJ clips cut to music. Duration: 1 min 45 sec. Date: 2025.
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Video Art CV

I have worked with projected moving image for over thirty years, from experimental film and live visuals in London to the contemplative looping video art I make today. Every piece builds on that foundation.

1991 – BA Fine Art, UEL (University of East London), specialising in projection, installation, film and photography
1996 – Sónar, Barcelona, my first live mix with the Liberator crew
1999 – Hoxton Square Gallery, window projections, alongside Cornelia Parker, who is also one of my art heroes
1999 – LUX / London Filmmakers’ Co-op and LEA (London Electronic Arts), video and gallery technician
2000 – Live video and vision mixing, Toothless Matters of Life and Death, Kazuko Hohki, Battersea Arts Centre, London. Live camera on stage, mixing the performer into projected clouds in real time

Film Awards

2005 – Runner-up, El Afilador, The Gypsy Film Festival, ESP
2017 – Runner-up, The Miscarriage Association, The Charity Film Awards, UK
2022 – Best Experimental, Paradise Film Festival, Cologne, DE

Large-scale Projections (selected)

1996 – Big Chill, Norfolk, UK
1998 – Michael Nyman, Union Chapel, London, UK
1999 – Warps 1-9, London Bridge, UK
2000 – Fabric, 1 year residency, London, UK
2002 – Manumission, Ibiza, ES
2002 – Robodock, Amsterdam, NL
2003 – Opera 4, 3 year residency, Granada, ESP
2003 – Dragon festival, six times, Granada, ESP
2006 – Love Music Hate Racism, Trafalgar Square (40,000 people), London, UK
2007 – Non-Stop Festival, Wrocław, PL
2008 – Rocket Festival, three times, Malaga, ESP
2009 – Mighty Sounds Festival, two times, South Bohemia, CZ
2012 – Freekuency Festival, Portalegre, PT
2026 – Partival, Granada, ES
2025 – REMEK soundworx, North Bohemia, CZ
2025 – ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture, Barcelona, ES
2026 – Artmixture Collective, Granada, ESP
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Film Festival Screenings

1996 – Portobello film festival, London, UK
1999 – Shooting People, regular screenings, London, UK
2022 – Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival, Florida, US
2022 – Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival, BARCIFF, ES
2022 – The itinerant Cinema of La Bête Rousse, FR

Commissioned Videos (selected)

2013 – PaSEaR, editor for Charley Case, commissioned by Sala Parpello, Valencia, ES
2014 – The Pocket Oxford Theatre Company, recorded and edited 6 Shakespeare plays, touring, ES
2015 – Siemens Financial Services: I got the execs to draw their year, which I animated, London, UK
2016 – VSO (Voluntary Services OverSeas): I got the execs to make up a dance and share a secret. They won funding, London, UK
2016 – ICS (International Citizens Services): 2 x hand drawn stop frame animations, London, UK
View Commissioned videos here.

Biography

Emma Plunkett is an Irish-descended Londoner living and working in Barcelona. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of East London (1991). Since 1995 she has worked as a video projection artist under the name VJ Miss Plunkett, performing and exhibiting across London’s club and art scene before moving to Spain in 2002. She lived and worked in the Granada province for nearly two decades, exhibiting regularly and organising group shows, before relocating to Barcelona in 2020, where she now focuses on video art, stoneware sculpture and sometimes painting.

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