Professor Chris Meigh-Andrews (University of Central Lancashire)
Chris Meigh-Andres is an artist, writer and curator and Professor of Electronic & Digital Art in the School of Creative and Performaing Arts at the University of Central Lancashire, and has been exhibiting his video and installation work internationally since the late 1970's. He has held numerous artist-in-residence posts in the UK, Canada and Europe, and he was Arts Council of England International Artist Fellow in Krakow during 2003/04.
Over the past fifteen years his artistic practice has developed from multi-screen gallery works to include the making and building of site-specific and outdoor moving image installations, involving the use of a range of imaging technologies, the internet and the harnessing of renewable energy systems. This presentation will provide an overview of his working practice in producing collaborative moving image installation work in this period, centred on his most recently completed weather responsive outdoor installation project on the Monument in the City of London. Chris will trace and explore the ideas and concepts behind a number of large-scale commissioned installatios he has made in collaboration with technologists, scientists, computer programmers and engineers ove rthe laast fifteen years. The presentation will be illustrated with images, diagrams and moving image documentation of these works to help to provide an overview of the various projects and the impact and value of collaborative practice on his work as an artist.
Meigh-Andrews' commissioned and site-specific installation wirk often features renewable energy sources including wind and solar power and he was the recipient of a research award from the National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) in 2004 as part of a commission to develop the prototype for a self-powered outdoor video installation in Grizedale Forest. His most recent installation, The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice), commissioned by architects Julian Harrap, produces a continuous stream of panoramic images from the top of the Monument in the city of London.
...followed by an opportunity to meet the speaker over drinks and buffet