Welcome to Chrisoakley.com
This is the website of artist filmmaker Chris Oakley. The site includes information about the artist, previews of his recent work, and sales of work including DVD editions and limited edition prints.
Latest Screenings
Rencontres Internationales 2010: Madrid
Various Venues, 12th-21st April
SCREENING 1, The Public
The Public, West Bromwich, UK 13th March-25th April
AV Festival 10
AV Festival 10, the biennial international Festival of electronic arts, taking place from 5-14 March 2010. The Festival theme is energy: a universal force that connects, transforms and renews life. Exploring energy from scientific, technological, environmental and spiritual perspectives we present work that resonates across NewcastleGateshead, Sunderland, Middlesbrough
About Chris Oakley
A UK based artist working with video and digital imaging, Chris Oakley's work is concerned with how media and technology shape our experiences of the world. From the intervention of the camcorder in the tourist's first-hand experience to the engineered narratives of reality television, he explores processes of fictionalising material captured from life in an analogy to the mass media's increasingly uniform treatment of fiction and the factual. He is also interested in the ideas of collective memory and shared experience as they have been shaped by the mass media, where our sense of shared experience is at odds with our isolated experience of consumption.