Education
1988-90
BTEC General Art & Design, North East Wales Institute
1990-93
BA(Hons) Fine Art, School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton
1996-97
MA Time-Based Imaging and Electronic Imaging Kent Institute of Art & Design
Exhibitions
2011
Identità Virtuali / Virtual Identities, CCC Strozzina, Italy, 20/05/11 – 17/07/11
Zeit/Time, Landkreis Elbe-Elster, Germany
LUMEN ES 2011, University of Extremadura, Spain
2010
Bless’d Pile, Installation at the Summit of Moel Famau, North Wales
Zeit/Time, Märkischer Kreis
Rencontres Internationales 2010: Madrid, various venues, 12th-21st April
SCREENING 1, The Public, West Bromwich, UK 13th March-25th April
AV Festival 10, 5-14 March 2010, Newcastle
2009
Toward the Sentient City, Architectural League New York
GOGBOT 2009: Atompunk, Enschede, Netherlands
Precarious Structures, Palinsesti, San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy September/October
CINE ANIMAL, San Sebastian, Spain
X_Science: Cinema between Science and Science Fiction, Genoa, Italy, March
Grafika Soziala, San Sebastian, Spain
Virtual Worlds, Medialab Enschende, Netherlands
AGM_09 Under Ctrl, Quad Derby, January
2008
Nuclear: Art & Radioactivity, London, November 2008
Chris Oakley, Clapham Picture House, June
Chris Oakley: Retellings, Wrexham Arts Centre, UK April-June
Surveillance and Control, Centre of Art La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Centre for Contemporary Art, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, March-June
X_Science: Cinema between Science and Science Fiction, Genoa, Italy, March
Atlas of the Future, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy,
2007
Act_Interact, MOCA Taipei, August-October 2007
Notions of Wilderness, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago (June)
Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France, May
Bang Filmes, Brasilia, Brazil, May
WORK IN PROGESS, Cinemathique Leipzig, May
Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, April
AirVideo, AirGallery, Stoke-on-Trent, March
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
PROJECTAR, Seven Seven Contemporary Art, London, February 2007
HSFF film festival, ICA London and touring nationwide, January-March 2007
2006
Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris
XVIth Contemporary Art Festival (ARTist), Istanbul
Paradise, Projection Gallery, Liverpool Biennial Independents
PULSAR, Caracas, Venezuela (October)
TODAYSART, The Hague, Netherlands
Every One’s Home is their Castle, Woodhorn Project, Ashington, UK
Work in Progress , Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek e.V., Berlin (September)
L’Etrange Festival, Paris (September)
Millennium Dialogues 2006, Beijing, China
Off the Map, Futuresonic, Manchester
Solo Show, OVADA Gallery, Oxford
18th Onion City Festival of Experimental film and Video, Chicago
Crash Test Dummy, touring show visiting Budapest, Prague, Ljubljana and Munich
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France (first prize)
Lovebytes, Sheffield, England
2005
LOOP Video Art Festival, Barcelona
Recontre Internationales Paris/Berlin*
Videobrasil, Sao Paulo
Dublin Electronic Arts Festival
4ème édition de Nuit Blanche, Paris
Media Forum , Moscow International Film Festival
Sommerfest der Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V., Halle, Germany*
Dispersed Moments of Concentration, PhoenixHalle, Dortmund, curated by Hartware Medien Kunst Verein*
Transmediale .05, Haus der Kultur der Welt, Berlin* The Catalogue is also featured on the touring Tranmediale .05 Video Selection
2004
Recontre-Audiovisuelles, Lille, France
Norapolis festival, Lyon
Island Film and Video Festival, Prenelle Gallery, London
Hertzoscopio, Lisbon
6. Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany
Exit, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Paris*
Cinema Nouvelles Générations festival, Lyon
Moving Images, ICA, London
LA Freewaves, MoCA, Los Angeles, in addition to public video billboards sites across LA*
Hidden Camera, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Darklight festival, Dublin