Chris Meigh Andrews

EDUCATION
PhD, Royal College of Art, School of Communications: 1996 -2001.
MA (Fine Art) Goldsmith’s, University of London: 1981-83.
Higher Diploma in Creative Photography, London College of Printing: 1976-79.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice), Project Launch, Nunnery Gallery, London, March 2009.
Wawel z Mostu Debnickiego, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, January, 2004.
Mothlight 2, 291 Gallery, London, June 2001.
Fenetre Digitale, Galeri Brighi, Paris, June -July 2000.
Mothlight, Rich Women of Zurich, London, March 1999.
Glass Box Gallery, Salford, Manchester. Oct.1998.
Certosa di Calci/Museum of Natural History, Pisa, April-May1998.
Mind’s Eye, Hotbath Gallery, Bath, July-Aug 1997.
Fire, Ice & Steam, Middlesbrough Gallery, Cleveland, 1995.
Vortex, Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucester, Oct- Nov. 1995.
Perpetual Motion, Saw Contemporary Arts Centre. Ottawa, Aug-Sept. 1994.
Heaven & Earth, London Film-Maker’s Co-op, London, Feb.1992.
The Basement, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1982.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Light/Dark & Motion & Stasis, 24/Seven Project Space, Gooden Gallery, London, May-June 2011.
De eerste foto’s van Amsterdam 1845-1875, Stadsarchief, Amsterdam, April 2010
Film/Video/Performance, Wimbledon Space, London, Feb-March 2010.
Scratch Video, Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, March 2009.
Video from the 70′s and 80′s, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Sept-Oct 2008.
Punctum, Redchurch Gallery, London, Dec 2007.
Analogue: Pioneering Video from the UK, Canada and Poland; 1968-88, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Nov- Dec. 2006. Anthology Film Archives, New York, Jan. 2007, Norwich Gallery, Jan 2007, FACT, Liverpool, March 2007, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Nov 2007, St James Cavalier, Valletta, Oct-Dec 2007, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Nov. 2008.
Crossing the Atlantic, 80 Washington Square Galleries, New York, Sept-Nov, 2006.
Digital Discourse, Cavalier St. James Centre for Creativity, Valetta, Nov. 2005.
Short Histories of Video Art, (Part 2), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, May 2004.
Experiments in Moving Image, Lumiere Cinema, London, Jan 2004.
A Photographic Truth, Huis Marseille Foundation, Amsterdam, Aug-Nov 2003.
Smog, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Dec 2002-Feb 2003.
Digital Responses, Victoria & Albert Museum, Sept 2002-March 2003.
Interstanding 4, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tallinn, Nov. 2001.
Rural England Through a Victorian Lens: Benjamin Brecknell Turner, Canon Photography Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, April-Sept. 2001.
AnOther Place, Storey Institute, Lancaster, Jan-Mar. 2001.
Submerged , Bath International Music Festival, Bath , May -June,1999.
Back/Slash, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, Sept.-Nov. 1996.
ArCade, Digital Creativity, University of Brighton, April 1995 (Touring UK: 1995-97)
River Crossings, Camerawork, (The Café Gallery) London. April – May, 1993.
Quick! , Royal Festival Hall, The South Bank Centre, London, April 1993.
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Sept. 1992.
4xVideo, Galeri OneOne, Antwerp, Feb. 1991.
New Art Northwest, Mercury Court, Liverpool. Aug. 1991
Visions & Transmissions, Harris Museum, Preston. Nov.-Dec. 1990.
External Affairs, Canada House Gallery, London. Sept. 1989.
Genlock, Interim Arts, London, 1988. (& UK Tour: 1988-89)
Electric Eyes: British Artists Video 1985-88: Tate Gallery, ICA, London; Sao Paulo; Museo de Arte Moderno Medellin, Columbia; Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna. (& UK Tour: 1988-89)
The Art of Understatement: Recent British Video, Madrid, 1988.
British Video Art & Experimental Film, Mucsarnok, Budapest, 1987.
Breaking Boundaries, Channel 6, ICA, London: 1986.
Light Years, London Film-Makers Co-op: 1986.
New British Video, Atelilier de Pedegogie et d’animation, Strasbourg, 1986.
Summary Video UK, ICA, London: 1984.
The British/Canadian Video Exchange, A Space, Toronto, 1984.
Olympus Gallery, London, January, 1984.
Video/Performance, The Photographers Gallery, London: 1984.
Gallery Trenkanten, Copenhagen, 1983.
New British Video, Museum of Long Beach, California, 1983.
Atelier Ste. Anne, Brussels, 1981.
The New Contemporaries, ICA , London: 1979.
New British Image, Side Gallery, Newcastle: 1977. (& UK Tour: 1978-79)

SPECIAL EVENTS & FESTIVALS
Sunbeam, (Site-Specific digital projection) University of Central Lancashire, Preston, May 2011.
City Arts, Ashbury Park, New Jersey, USA. Sept 2010.
One Minute Video, Vol. 4, (Touring UK and Internationally, 2010-11)
With Love from Me to You, James Taylor Gallery, London, Nov. 2009.
Fisheye, Rome, Oct 2009
Stills, Glasgow, (Rewind + Play, DVD Launch) Oct 2009.
Invideo, Milan, November, 2008.
Scratch Video, Dundee Contemporary Arts, April 2008,
The Nature of Systems, British Film Institute, London, Nov. 2007
Tabala Rasa, Croydon Clocktower, Dec 2002.
Mute Loops, Lux Gallery, London, July 2001.
The British Landscape Through the Lens, Tate Britain, London, Oct-Nov 2001.
Place Setting, (with Peter Ting) Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Nov. 1999.
The Ottawa International Festival of Video Art, (Touring Canada: 1984-85.)
Video by Artists, National Film Theatre, London, March, 1984.
The Expanded Media Show, Sheffield City Polytechnic, Feb. 1983.
LVA Gallery, London, Sept. 1983.
Ljublana Video Festival, Ljublana, 1983.
Three-Quarter Inch Productions: Chris Meigh-Andrews, Cairn, Paris, 1982.
Video Screenings: Chris Meigh-Andrews, ICA Cinematheque, London, 1982.
Fourth Annual Tokyo Video Festival, Tokyo, 1981.
London Video Arts at the London Musician’s Collective, Aug.1981.
New Acquisitions, Art Metropole, Toronto, 1981.
National Video Festival, South Hill Park, Bracknell, Berkshire, 1980, 1981, 1982 & 1987.
Rusden State College, Victoria, (Australia), May 1979.

CITATIONS IN BOOKS, ACADEMIC PAPERS & CATALOGUES
Video Art, England’s Avant-Garde, an Interview with Sean Cubitt, http://www.lux.org.uk
Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts, H Smith, and RT Dean, Edinburgh University Press. 2009
A History of Artists’ Film in Britain, David Curtis, BFI, London, 2007. ISBN 1844570967
Sztuka w Bunkrze/Art in Bunkier: Bunkier Sztuki Gallery 1994-2006, Beata Nowacka-Kardzis, ed. Krakow, 2006. ISBN 83-86905-74-3
The Hunt for Submarines in Classical Art: Mappings between Scientific Invention and Artistic Inspiration, AHRC, 2006
Video Art, A Guided Tour, Catherine Elwes, IB Taurus, London, 2005. ISBN 1850433464.
“Video Art and the Argument from Design”, A.L Rees, Experiments in Moving Image, Epigraph Publications, Jackie Hatfield, ed. London, 2004. ISBN 1902458060
Video Loupe, Catherine Elwes, KT Press, London, 2000. ISBN 0953654109
Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, Erika Suderburg, ed. University of Minnesota Press, 2000. ISBN 081663159
The Object (ive) of Art in the Age of Digital Revolution, J Byrne, “Convergence”, 1997. con.sagepub.com
Diverse Practices-A Critical Reader on British Video , Julia Knight, ed, Arts Council England / John Lilly Media, Luton,1996. ISBN 1-86020-500-7
A Directory of British Film and Video Artists, David Curtis, ed. Arts Council England/John Lilly Media, Luton, 1996. ISBN 186020-003-6
Digital Mediation. Imagine Technology as Art, Lawena Faul, Back/Slash, Sept, 1996.
Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture, Sean Cubitt, MacMillan, London, 1993. ISBN 0333555562
The Politics of the Personal in British Video Art, Catherine Elwes, LVA Catalogue, Oct. 1991.
Video Installations in the UK, Video Positive, April. 1991.
The Book of Special Effects in Photography, Michael Langford, Ebury Press, London, 1981. ISBN 0852232098
British Image 4, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1977. ISBN 0-7287-0147-2

REVIEWS, ARTICLES & ESSAYS (About the work of CM-A)
Rewinding Video Back to the Start, Jack Mottram, “The Herald”, Edinburgh, 10/10/08.
High in the Hot Spot, Cornerstone, Vol 29, No 2, 2008.
Visual Arts Diary: “Analogue & Digital”, K. MacMichael, www.transitiontradition.com, Jan 2008.
“The Video Art Gallery”, Aesthetica, Nov 2007
“A History of Video Art; The Development of From and Function”, Samantha Lackey, “Screen Studies”, The Art Book, Vol. 14, Issue 3, August 2007, Blackwell Synergy.
As Seen on Screen, The Metro, 2/3/07.
Distributed Aesthetics and the Tele-image, Vince Dziekan, “Remote”, Plimsol Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Australia, June 2006.
“Gray Scale Video and the Shift to Colour”, Sean Cubitt, Art Journal, Sept 2006.
“Digital Discourse”, Malta Now, Issue 09, Jan, 2006.
“Digital Discourse”, The Times, (Malta) Dec 2005.
“Chris Meigh-Andrews”, Windsor Review, Vol 38, No. 2, 2005.
“Interwoven Motion”, AN Magazine, November, 2004.
“Photography in Contemporary Installation”, Biuletyn Fotograficzny, Krakow, March, 2004.
“Amsterdam volgens een pionier en een zanddfotograaf”, Het Parool, 30/09/2003
“Tijdreis in het donker met foto’s van BB Turner”, NRC Handelsblad, 25/09/2003
“Nothing Matters”, Interstanding 4, End Repeat, Estonian Art, Vol 2, 2001.
“Case Study : A Photographic Truth 2001″, Hot Dots, Nov, 2001.
“Video Links Past and Present at V&A”, AV Magazine, Sept. 2001.
“Nor Did His Shutter Sleep in His Hand”, The Times, 3/4/2001.
D-Pict, April/May, 2000. ISSN 1470-1995
“Fenetre Digitale”, Time Out, No.1575, Oct. 25th-Nov. 1st, 2000.
“Submerged”, Soundings, AN Magazine, July, 1999.
“Mothlight”, Flash Art (Italy) , Summer 1998 .
“Tecnologia e ambiente poi amore e…faralle”, La Nazione, Tuscany, (Italy) 17/4/98.
Mind’s Eye, “The Guide”, Exhibitions Preview, The Guardian, 12/7/97.
Mind’s Eye, Preview, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 15, July1997. ISSN 0968-6711
“Perpetual Motion by Chris Meigh-Andrews”, City Life, Manchester, Oct. 1996.
“Chris Meigh-Andrews, Vortex- A Video Installation”, Live Art Magazine, April1996.
“Interview with Chris Meigh-Andrews”, Virus, Milan, Italy, April, 1995.
“Lost in Cyberspace”, Artists Newsletter, June 1994.
“Camerawork on Board”, Stage, Screen & Radio, May 1993.
“River Crossings”, Hybrid, June-July, 1993.
“River Crossings”, Creative Camera, Feb-Mar.1993.
“European Media Art Festival”, Variant, Nov. 1992. ISSN 0-954-8815
“Osnabruck Media Art Festival”, Frankfurter Rundschau, (Germany) 17/9/92.
“Eau d’Artifice, Chris Meigh-Andrews”, Performance, Spring 1992.
“Video Art Flows into Mercury”, Liverpool Daily Post, 21/8/91.
“Visions & Transmissions”, Screen, Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer 1991.
“Visions & Transmissions”, Artscribe International, April 1991.
“High Tech Exhibition Features Video Art”, Lancashire Evening Post, 29/11/90.
“The Stream”, Independent Media, March 1988.
“Reel Art”, Time Out, No. 674, July 22nd-28th, 1983.
“Video Art”, Stills, Vol.1 No. 4, Winter 1982.
“Moves & Blurs”, The Listener, Feb. 1978.

PUBLICATIONS: Authored and Edited Books
Digital Aesthetic 2, EDAU, Preston, Jan 2008. ISBN: 1901922677
A History of Video Art: the Development of Form and Function, Berg, Oxford and New York. 2006, ISBN 1845202198. (Japanese translation, Sangensha, Tokyo, 2011.)
Analogue: Pioneering Video from the UK, Canada & Poland; 1968-88, EDAU, Preston, 2006. ISBN 1 901922 59 6.

PUBLICATIONS: Book Chapters
“Optiks: Peter Campus”, and “In Conversation with Michael Snow”, The BFI Gallery Book, British Film Institute, London 2011. ISBN 978 1870282826
“Video Installation in Europe and the USA: The Expansion and Exploration of Electronic and Televisual Space: 1968-1988″, Expanded Cinema: Film Art Performance, Tate Publications, London, 2011.
“Peter Campus”, 100 Video Artists, Exit Publications, Madrid. (Jan, 2010)
“Interwoven Motion: steps towards a semi-permanent outdoor self-powered video installation”, The Itemisation of Creative Knowledge, FACT/ Liverpool University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-84631-038-5
“The Vasulka Tapes”, Vasulka Lab 1969-2005-Live Archive, Vivid, Birmingham, 2006. ISBN 0955248302
“Chris Meigh-Andrews: Early Video Tapes: 1978-87″, Experimental Film and Video, Jackie Hatfield, ed., John Libbey Publishing. 2006. ISBN 0 861966643
“Chris Meigh-Andrews, Sculptural & Video Installations: 1989-95″, Experiments in Moving Image, Epigraph Publications, London, 2004. ISBN 1902458060

PUBLICATIONS: Catalogues, DVDs and CD Roms
Rewind and Play: An Anthology of Early British Video Art, Lux/Rewind, (DVD) 2009. ISBN 5065000981013
Chris Meigh-Andrews Installations: 1998-2004, EDAU, Preston, March 2005. ISBN 1901922510
“For William Henry Fox Talbot (The Pencil of Nature)”, Digital Responses, V&A Museum and the London Institute. (CD Rom), ISBN 1851774149
Chris Meigh-Andrews, Video Tapes, Installations, CD Roms: 1978-1997, University of Central Lancashire, 1997. ISBN 0906694566

PUBLICATIONS: Journal Articles, Essays and Reviews.
The Monument Project, (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice), Leonardo, Vol. 42, No 5. MIT Press, Oct. 2009. ISSN 0 262 754422 3
Robert Cahen: Passage. Art Monthly, No. 326, May, 2009. ISSN 0142-6702.
“Video Chiaroscuro: Vince Briffa’s Body of Glass- After Caravaggio:”, Sounds and Visions, Artists’ Films and Videos from Europe, The Last Decade, Silvana Editoriale Milan, 2009. ISBN/EAN: 9788836613250
Peter Campus: Projected Video Works: 1972-80. Art Monthly, No 316, May 2008. ISSN 0142-6702
Guest Editor, Art in-Sight/ Filmwaves, Issue 35, Spring 2008. ISSN 1460-4051
Peter Donebauer, Richard Monkhouse and the Development of the EMS Spectron and the Videokalos Image Processor, Leonardo, Vol 40, No 5. MIT Press, Nov. 2007. ISSN 0 262 754422 3
Without Thresholds, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 73, June 2005. ISSN 1475-9853
Steina and Woody Vasulka: Multiple Dialogues, www.lux.org.uk, 2004.
Video Tapes, Installations & Projections, Filmwaves, Issue 15, 2001. ISSN 1460-4051
Mapping the Image, Digital Creativity, Vol.12, 2001, ISSN 1462-6268
Unseen Images, Bill Viola, Art Monthly, No. 173, Feb 1994. ISSN 0142-6702
Dummies, Dolls & Poison Candy, Art Monthly, No. 171, Nov. 1993. ISSN 0142-6702
Abstract, Still Life, Portrait, Art Monthly, No. 136, May 1992. ISSN 0142-6702
Video Positive 1991. Art Monthly, No. 147, June 1991. ISSN 0142-6702
Video Sculpture & Installation, Harris Museum, Preston, Nov. 1990.

RADIO & TELEVISION BROADCASTS
BBC & ITV (North West England Regional news) 9/05/11 (News item on Sunbeam event)
BBC TV (London regional news), 08/02/09, (News item on Monument restoration project)
Polskie Radio 2 (Polish national radio) and Radio Krakow, 20/01/04, (Feature)
BBC Radio Lancashire, 28/10/03 (Live interview)
Eesti (Estonian National TV) 11/01 (interview & feature)
Bath International Music Festival, HTV, 23/5/99. (Interview & feature)
BBC TV South West, 20/5/99. (News feature)
BBC Radio Bristol, 15/07/97. (Live interview)
Vortex at Prema Arts Centre, BBC Radio Gloucester, 31/10/95. (Feature)
Oxford Brookes University’s First Artist in Residence, BBC Radio Oxford,
25/2/94 (feature) and 27/2/94 (live Interview)
River Crossings, Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4, 26/3/93. (Interview & feature)
European Media Art Festival, NDR 3 (German regional TV) 10/3/93 (Interview & feature)
Video 3, The Eleventh Hour, Channel 4 & WGBH, Boston, USA, 1985 & 87 (Interview)

GRANTS, AWARDS & PRIZES

Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Award, 2010.
British Council Travel Awards: 2004 (Netherlands); 2005 (Poland); 2005 (Malta).
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), 2003- 04.
Arts Council England, 1994,1995,1997,1999,2003,2004,2006 & 2007.
Arts Council of Great Britain, 1988,1991 & 1993.
Polish Cultural Institute, 2006. Canada Council for the Arts, 2006.
North West Arts, 1994,1996,1998 & 2000.
Southern Arts, 1994.
Henry Moore Foundation, 1999.
South West Arts, 1995, 1997 & 1999.
UK Foundation for Sport and Art, 1995.
Northern Arts, 1995.
Ontario Ministry of Culture & Arts, Canada (Visiting Artist Award) 1994.
London Arts, 1984, 1986 & 2002.
British Academy of Film & Television (BAFTA), “Best Children’s Programme”, (Member of production team), 1986.

COMMISSIONED PROJECTS
The Monument Project, (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice), Site-specific digital installation, City of London, commissioned by Julian Harrap Architects, in collaboration with Sandbox, Uclan, 2007-08.
Interwoven Motion, prototype outdoor self-powered video installation, Grizedale Forest, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology Liverpool, and Grizedale Arts, 2004.
Temporal View in Amsterdam, Digital video projection, Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam, 2003.
For William Henry Fox Talbot, (the Pencil of Nature), Solar-powered, site-specific installation, Victoria & Albert Museum, London and Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England, sponsored by Canon UK, and Solar Century Ltd, 2002.
A Photographic Truth, Digital projection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, sponsored by Canon UK, 2001.
Submerged, Site-specific installation, Bath Festivals Trust & DA2, Bath, 1999.
Vortex, Site-specific installation, Prema Arts Centre, Gloucester, 1995.
Fire, Ice & Steam, Site-specific installation, Middlesbrough Gallery, Cleveland, 1995.
Cross-Currents, Site-specific installation, Camerawork, London, 1993.
Streamline, installation, Bluecoat Gallery, sponsored by English Estates, Liverpool, 1991.
Eau d’Artifice, installation, Harris Museum, Preston, sponsored by Samuelsons Communications and Jewson Ltd, 1990.

VISITING ARTIST, RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
Arts Council International Artist Fellow, Krakow, Poland. Nov 2003-Jan 2004.
Video Artist in Residence, Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucester. Aug. – Oct. 1995.
Video Artist in Residence, Cleveland Arts, Middlesbrough, April-May 1995.
Artist in Residence, Saw Contemporary Art Centre, Ottawa, Ca nada. Aug.-Sept. 1994.
Resident Artist in Digital Imaging, School of Visual Arts, Music & Publishing,
Oxford Brookes University, Jan.-July 1994.
Guest Artist, Summer Arts Lab, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art,
Dundee, Aug.1994.
Guest Artist, Falling Annual Festspiel, Odder, Denmark. Sept. 1984.

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Digital Aesthetic 3, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, (Forthcoming: Oct-Dec 2012.)  Light& Dark/Motion & Stasis, 24/7 Project Space, Gooden Gallery, London, April-June 2011.  Film/Video/Performance, Wimbledon Space, London, Feb-March 2010.
Yes Snow Show, (with Elisabetta Fabrizzi) British Film Institute, London. Dec. 2008-09.
Analogue & Digital, Fieldgate Gallery, London, Nov-Dec 2007.
Digital Aesthetic 2, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, March-May 2007, Funding: Arts Council England, Lancashire County Council, University of Central Lancashire.
Analogue: Pioneering British, Canadian and Polish Artists’ Video, 1968-88, (with Catherine Elwes), Tate Britain & Tate Modern, London, FACT, Liverpool, Norwich Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, MOCCA (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) Toronto, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin, 2006-08; Touring Ontario (2008-2010) Ottawa, Peterborough, Sarnia, Waterloo and Windsor, 2006-2010. Funding: Arts Council England, Polish Cultural Institute, Canada Council .
Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London, 2000 and 2002.
The Digital Aesthetic, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, November 2001, Funding: North West Arts, Preston Council, University of Central Lancashire & the Elephant Trust.

WORK IN PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Rewind, Dundee.
Muzeum Historii Fotografi, Krakow
Stadsarchief, Amsterdam
Huis Marseilles Foundation of Photography, Amsterdam
Sheffield Hallam University
The Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Vasulka Archive, Santa Fe, USA.
The British Artists’ Film & Video Study Collection, London
The Lux Centre, London
The National Archive of Film & Television
Rusden State College, Victoria, Australia
Cairn, Paris
The Royal College of Art, London

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Director, Three-Quarter Inch Productions, London: Off-line’ video editor; Director/cameraman, (ACTT and ABS), Photographer, 1980-87.
Freelance animator, Take Hart, Hartbeat and Know How: BBC TV, 1980-88.
TV Studio Technician/Engineer, Inner London Education Authority, 1979-81.
Audio-Visual Producer/Photographer, Vanier College, Montreal, Canada, 1974-75.
Media Assistant/A-V Technician, School Board of Greater Montreal: Canada, 1972-74.