Interview with John Sanborn
My interview with Media Artist John Sanborn is posted in the Interviews with Video Artists section of this web site. To view, click this link.
New publication: Solar Power: Art and Design, Routledge, 2021.
Alex Nathanson’s new book A History of Solar Power Art and Design will be available from the end of July. Published by Routledge as part of their “Advances in Art and Visual Studies”, the chapter on installations includes a comprehensive section on my renewable energy work from 1994 onwards.
Artists & Climate Change
Artists and Climate Change.com have just published an article about my renewable energy installations Link to Artists and Climate Change web site
“Impossible Object Number 8 (Solar Powered Bicycle Helmet)”
The newest addition to my ongoing “Impossible Objects” series. Look Cool and Save the Planet!
New publications
To mark 40 years of my work in video and sound installation and to coincide with the acquisition of documentation of my early work (photos, writings, diagrams and publications) by Tate Britain in 2020, I have just published a two-volume catalogue raisonné Video & Sound Installations: 1980-2020 ( ISBN: 9781034316350) Video & Sound Installations: 1980-2020: […]
“Daddy’s Camera”: New Installation Project, in Progress
I have begun working on the first stage of a new installation project which involves digitising brief fragments of 8mm film shot by my father during the 1960’s.
“Impossible Object Number 7 (All the Water I Drank During Lockdown)”
140 x 1.5 litre recycled plastic bottles, plastic tubing, fishing line, reservoir, pump, water, computer and video projection. 10 Trinity St, Colchester CO1 1JR. Aug 21st-Aug 31st, 2020. Preview/Launch: Friday, Aug 28th, 7:30PM
Temporal View in Amsterdam (After BB Turner)
Turner– Stilte in de Stad (Turner- Silence in the City), Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Aug 4th-Nov 1st, 2020. The heart of Amsterdam and it is dead quiet. Or does it seem like that? Benjamin Brecknell Turner’s 1857 photograph of the Westermarkt puts us on the wrong track. The image was taken with the very first photographic technique […]
Technology, Design and the Arts – Opportunities and Challenges
Technology, Design and the Arts – Opportunities and Challenges, Earnshaw, R., Liggett, S., Excell, P., Thalmann, D. (Eds.), just published by Springer.com, this open access book contains two chapters that feature my work. Chapter 15: Chris Meigh-Andrews, Digital Moving Image Installations and Renewable Energy: 1994–2018 Chapter 18: Dr Alan Summers: In Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary […]
Strangelove Time Based Media Festival
My selection of works for the experimental film section of the Strangelove Time Based Media Festival goes “live” on June 22nd. The selected artists and works in this programme are: Andrew Demirjian (USA), Pan-terrestrial People’s Anthem (2018);Robert Cahen (France),Narsica Hirsch (Argentina) and Ruben Guzman (Argentina) Kosmos II (2020) ; Tessa Garland (UK) Legacy Warf (2020); Masayuki […]