'One Artist鈥檚 Journey: From Videotape Screenings to Video Sculpture' is the title of the next seminar in the series MaKS Research Seminars. The seminar, will be held on Friday 6 May at 12:15 in Room 414 MaKS Building. The seminar will be led by by Prof. Chris Meigh-Andrews from the University of Central Lancashire.
Prof. Chris Meigh-Andrews writes:
'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鈥榮 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鈥檚 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.'
