L-UNIVERSITÁ TA’ MALTA
Msida - Malta
UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
Msida - Malta
IL-FAKULTÁ TAL-MIDJA U
X-XJENZI TAL-GĦARFIEN
FACULTY OF MEDIA AND
KNOWLEDGE SCIENCES
Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences Research Seminar Series 2015-2016
Friday 6th May 2016
Starting at 12:15, MaKS Room 414
12:15
One Artist’s Journey: From Videotape Screenings to Video
Sculpture
Prof. Chris Meigh-Andrews
Video Artist and Writer, University of Central Lancashire
13:15
Short break for informal discussions
13:30
Discussion
Light refreshments will be served.
Entrance is free but a place needs to be reserved by sending an email to
info.maks@um.edu.mt
One Artist’s Journey: From Videotape Screenings to Video Sculpture
Prof. Chris Meigh-Andrews
Since the mid 1970‘s when I made the decision to specialise my art practice on the moving
electronic image, the medium has gone through enormous changes - both technically and
culturally. Initially fascinated by the distinctions and differences between video and broadcast
TV, and subsequently on the potential of video as a unique and distinctive medium for the
exploration of identity and perceptual processes, my work always wrestled with the
problematic question of how the resultant work could be experienced and engaged with.
The issues that working with video raised most troublingly for me during the 1980‘s were
related to the fact that as a medium it seemed to be technically and
socially “unbroadcastable” as well as unsuitable for the either the cinema or the gallery! My
solution in the 1990’s was to develop a series of video sculptures - relatively large-scale
structures and temporary objects that could occupy the white cube spaces and/or darkened
cavern of the gallery and readily understood by gallery visitors because of its relationship to
conventional sculpture and traditional mixed media installation. In the decades that followed
I have sought to develop and explore opportunities made possible by the shifting technology
and expanded creative potential of both inside and outside of the confines and walls of the
conventional gallery environment.
My presentation will trace the development of my work as an artist dedicated to working
with the electronic and digital moving image from early single screen videotapes via gallery
installation and data projection to site-specific projects featuring web-based image streaming
and augmented reality
SPEAKER PROFILE
Chris Meigh-Andrews is a pioneering video artist and writer who has been making and
exhibiting screen-based video and sculptural moving image installations since the mid
1970’s. He studied fine art at Goldsmiths and completed his PhD at the Royal College of Art in
2001 and has taught at numerous art schools and media departments in the UK. He has held
a number of artists’ residencies in the UK and abroad and his site-specific and commissioned
installations often incorporate renewable energy systems and establish direct relationships
with the natural and constructed environment.