BIOGRAPHY
An artist working with video and digital imaging, Chris Oakley's concerns are focused on mediated experience in its many forms, including mainstream media, amateur photography, mass communications and augmented reality. In a critical analogy to the methods employed by the mass media, he utilises processes of fictionalising material captured from life in an attempt to define a space between actuality and representation; the point at which the white noise of lived experience is made to conform to strict linear narrative.
In the past 2 years, Oakley's works have received widespread media attention within Europe and beyond. His works have been shown alongside those of Tony Oursler, Jozef Robakowski, and Pipilotti Rist. His recent achievements have included exhibition at a number of major international media arts festivals and exhibitions; these include Transmediale .05 in Berlin, exhibition of work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and via video billboards on Sunset Strip, and a prize win at the Media Forum of the Moscow International Film Festival in 2005.
Education
1988-90
BTEC General Art & Design, North East Wales Institute
1990-93
BA(Hons) Fine Art, School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton
1993-94
MA Time-Based Imaging and Electronic Imaging
Kent Institute of Art & Design
Recent Screenings and Exhibitions
2006
Solo Show, OVADA Gallery Oxford
Lovebytes, Sheffield, England
Videoformes 2006, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Emirites Film Competion, Abu Dhabi
International Festival of Cinema Technology Orlando, Los Angeles and London
2005
LOOP Video Art Festival, Barcelona
Recontre Internationales Paris/Berlin
Visionica, Gijon, Spain
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
OPTICA festival, Gijon, Spain, June 2005
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*
Terminal X-Perience, Arras
Hidden Camera, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Darklight festival, Dublin
* indicates work in installation
Grants and Awards
2006
Prix de la Création Vidéo VIDEOFORMES 2006 Clermond-Ferrand, France (First Prize)
2005
Production grant from Arts Council England for Sight/Seeing
Selected as Artist-in-Residence at Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, as part of
EMARE (European Media Artist Residency Exchange programme)
Winner of 3rd prize at the Media Forum of the Moscow International Film Festival with The Catalogue
2004
Production grant from Arts Council England for The Catalogue