Writer in Residence at Wallace Stegner House, Aug-Sept 2024
I am currently on a month-long residency at Wallace Stegner House in Eastend, Saskatchewan. I am here to trace my grandfather’s 5 year sojourn in Western Canada. He arrived in Eastend, age 26 in Sept 1922 intending to begin a new life farming on the Canadian prairies.
Research Seminars: Dept of Digital Arts at the University of Malta
I will be making two presentations about my interest and work with 360 Panoramic images at the University of Malta in Valletta. The first will be for MA Students (Oct 19) and the second (Oct 20th) for research staff. Link for Further details
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.
“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.
Crowd funding for new installation project
Climbing Mt. Ishizuchi, a Sacred Mountain and the highest peak in Western Japan I am currently developing a new installation project which will involve making a high-definition panoramic video recording of my ascent to the shrine at the top of Mt Ishizuchi, one of Japan’s Seven Holy Mountains. It will take approximately 3-4 hours to […]
L’Émergence de l’art vidéo en Europe : historiographie, théorie, sources et archives, Bibliothèque nationale May 25th, 2016.
L’Émergence de l’art vidéo en Europe : historiographie, théorie, sources et archives, Bibliothèque nationale de France, May 25th & 26th, 2016.
I will be presenting a paper on early artists’ video in the UK on May 25th. Here is the programme for the two-day event which will be held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Institut national d’histoire de l’art May 25th: A. Historiographies nationales et transnationales Présidente de séance : Larisa Dryansky […]
Testing Prototype Outdoor Version of “In Darwin’s Garden”, 19/11/15
The Emergence of Early Artists’ Video in Europe & the USA and its’ Relationship to Broadcast TV
Presentation by Dr Chris Meigh-Andrews (Professor Emeritus, University of Central Lancashire and Visiting Professor, University of the West of England ) Japan Video Society of Video Art Research Association, Tokyo. October 12, 2015 (Mon) 17:00 to 19:30 Venue: co-lab Shibuya atelier 2F Conference Room 3 (Shibuya-ku, […]
New 360 degree panoramic projection from The Monument Project
A 36o degree panoramic projection of a time lapse from “The Monument Project” (2009-2011) was presented at the 23rd Internationale Panoramakonferenz in Altötting, Germany, Sept 2014. Music by Chris Bush and post-production by Stuart Moore.