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.
Upcoming Events
Chrisoakley.com is currently undergoing a redesign. In the interim, the site has been updated with new and refreshed content. There may be occasional disruption to the site until the 19th June 2009. As a part of the updating of the site, paid downloads will no longer be available (thanks to everyone who supported the service). DVD compliations ares still available here.
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.