Chris Meigh Andrews

Chris Meigh-Andrews is an artist who specialises in electronic and digital media who has been exhibiting videotapes & installations internationally since 1978. Early videotape work includes single and double screen works screened and exhibited worldwide.

Since 1990, Meigh-Andrews has specialised in sculptural, and commissioned site-specific installations and video projections which have often featured the harnessing of renewable energy systems, including wind and solar power. In 2002, his solar-powered web cast installation For William Henry Fox Talbot (The Pencil of Nature) was exhibited in "Digital Interventions" at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2003 he produced Temporal View in Amsterdam (After BB Turner) a digital projection for Huis Marseilles Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam. Meigh-Andrews represented the UK with Resurrection, a solar-powered video installation at "Digital Discourse" an international exhibition to coincide with the heads of Commonwealth Government’s Conference (CHOGM) in Valetta, 2005/06.

Meigh-Andrews was Chair of London Video Access (1987-89) and has held numerous artist’s residencies and fellowships, including Arts Council of England International Artist Fellow at Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow (2003/04). He was the recipient of a research award from the National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) for the development of his first outdoor video installation Interwoven Motion in 2004, and he has received British Council travel awards to Amsterdam, Poland and Malta.

Meigh-Andrews organised and curated The Digital Aesthetic (2001) and Digital Aesthetic 2 (2007) in collaboration with the Harris Museum, Preston, was co-curator of Analogue: Pioneering Artists’ Video from the UK, Canada and Poland (1968-88), a major touring retrospective exhibition exhibited in London, Liverpool, Norwich, Warsaw, New York, Toronto, Valletta and Berlin. Recently he was co-curator of Yes Snow Show, recent digital video work by Michael Snow at the British Film Institute, London. His book, A History of Video Art: the Development of Technology and Form, was published by Berg in October 2006. He is currently Professor of Electronic & Digital Art, and director of the Electronic and Digital Art Unit (EDAU) at the University of Central Lancashire.