In addition to assisting curators, programmers, researchers, and organisers of many exhibitions and conferences, the Study Collection has been instrumental in generating its own exhibitions and conferences.

Narrative Exploration in Expanded Cinema
Conferences at BFI Southbank in December 2008 and Tate Modern in April 2009
An AHRC funded research project established by the late Dr Jackie Hatfield. Conducted by Duncan White and David Curtis, the project was based at the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection in association with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, and explored the various histories of expanded cinema and their impact on the question of narrative, space and time in experimental film and art practices. The project staged two conferences at BFI Southbank and Tate Modern and a series of seminars. A major book drawing on the research is in preparation and will be published in 2010. For information about the project, including details of the conference and symposium events, interviews and documentation, visit the project website.

Figuring Landscapes
November 2008 - April 2010
Curated by Steven Ball and Professor Catherine Elwes (Camberwell) Figuring Landscapes is a remarkable collection of moving image works that has grown from the background of the political and cultural history that links the UK and Australia. Presented internationally as a series of screening programmes, the works in Figuring Landscapes address questions of ecological survival, post-industrialism, gender, the touristic gaze, and uniquely in Australia, the social, political and cultural status of Indigenous people in a post-colonial society. Figuring Landscapes includes 55 works from Australia and the UK premiered at ArtSway in the New Forest in November 2008, the tour launched at Tate Modern, London in February 2009 and continues throughout the UK, Ireland and Australia during 2009 - 2010.

Transcentric
17 November - 29 December 2008
Lethaby Gallery and Windows Gallery Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
Curated by Steven Ball and Irene Barberis (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Transcentric collected works across a range of media by artists associated with RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and the University of the Arts London. The works in the exhibition move across, beyond, between, and within city centres. The exhibition was part of The Centres Project which brings together two centres of Fine Art research: the University of the Arts London, London, UK and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Australia.

Systems of Nature
6th November to 13th December 2007
Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins College of Art and Design
and BFI Southbank
This exhibition presented two recent installations by Chris Welsby, a British artist who uses moving image technology to explore the representation of nature, the passing of time and the forces of the weather in relation to the filming process. The exhibition was complemented by a season of events at BFI Southbank.

A Hidden History
This season at BFI Southbank marks the publication of A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain, by David Curtis, published by the British Film Institute. The book was launched on Tuesday 15th May 2007 at BFI Southbank with a preview of the five-month season A Hidden History which reflects the themes of the book and Mobius Loops for Five Projectors, a new installation by Guy Sherwin. A display of artists' film and video artefacts is in the BFI Southbank Mezzanine Gallery until early July 2007

Collected Works & Colour Fields
Monday 23rd October 2006 to Saturday 18th November 2006
Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins College of Art and Design
Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP
Collected Works was a showcase for material from the Study Collection and included posters, photographs, drawings, film strips, press cuttings and video material which illustrated the ways in which artists have recorded the activity which takes place between the conceiving of a work and its eventual presentation to a public. Colour Fields was an exhibition of new and restaged installation works on the theme of colour in avant-garde film, video and digital media with a screening and discussion event. The event also included Eutopia a Prague-London live streaming video performance by Martin Blazicek and Steven Ball. See an extract from the Eutopia performance here.

Anticipating the Past: Artists Archive Film
Friday 12 Friday and Saturday 13 May 2006
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
£20 (£15 concessions)
The experience of viewing projected archival film or antiquated video footage can have a seductive, even spellbinding effect on the viewer; its material and aesthetic qualities acting as a trigger to memories, evoking a sense of time and nostalgia, or conjuring fantasies of history. This international symposium drew together a collection of voices and perspectives to examine the work of artists and filmmakers who have sought to develop work with these materials and their inherent qualities, to dislocate them from their original purpose and intention, revealing new readings, meanings, and questions.
Speakers included George Barber, Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska, Morgan Fisher, Patrick Keiller, Elizabeth McAlpine, Marcel Odenbach, Pat O'Neill, Benjamin Weil. Organised with the LUX, in association with Arts Council England and the British Film Institute.

A Century of Artists' Film in Britain
From May 2003 to April 2004, Tate Britain
Curated by Senior Research Fellow David Curtis, this survey of the history of British artist's film was an ambitious display of 170 works by 130 artists which aimed for the first time to reveal the full range, variety and originality of artists' film and video in Britain. The exhibition has now closed, however it is accessible on DVD for viewing by researchers at the Study Collection and the online catalogue is available at the above link.