Audio Interview: Desert Equinox, Broken Hill, NSW
Link to an audio recording of an interview by Peter Woodford Smith about my solar-powered site-specific outdoor installation for “Desert Equinox” in Broken Hill, NSW, Australia, October 2022.
“Track Markers”: Fingeringhoe Nature Reserve, Essex.
I am showing a new solar-powered outdoor installation Truth is a Pathless Land (for Jiddu Krishnamurty this weekend (June 23rd-25th, 2023) in “Track Markers: Contemporary Sculpture at Fingringhoe”. This work is the second in an on-going series of outdoor neon text pieces.
New Site-Specific Solar-Powered Outdoor Installation
I will be exhibiting a new outdoor solar powered neon text installation at Fingringhoe Nature park June 23-25 2023.
Meta-Landscapes: Representations and Perceptions.
An exhibition of moving image works by twelve renowned international artists. Valletta Contemporary, Malta. April 28th-June 25th, 2022. Curated by Chris Meigh-Andrews. This exhibition is centred on the theme of landscape, presenting work by artists who have pioneered the electronic moving image as an art form. The intention is to present a diverse range of […]
New publication: Solar Power: Art and Design, Routledge, 2021.
Alex Nathanson’s new book A History of Solar Power Art and Design will be available from the end of July. Published by Routledge as part of their “Advances in Art and Visual Studies”, the chapter on installations includes a comprehensive section on my renewable energy work from 1994 onwards.
Artists & Climate Change
Artists and Climate Change.com have just published an article about my renewable energy installations Link to Artists and Climate Change web site
“Impossible Object Number 8 (Solar Powered Bicycle Helmet)”
The newest addition to my ongoing “Impossible Objects” series. Look Cool and Save the Planet!
New publications
To mark 40 years of my work in video and sound installation and to coincide with the acquisition of documentation of my early work (photos, writings, diagrams and publications) by Tate Britain in 2020, I have just published a two-volume catalogue raisonné Video & Sound Installations: 1980-2020 ( ISBN: 9781034316350) Video & Sound Installations: 1980-2020: […]
“Daddy’s Camera”: New Installation Project, in Progress
I have begun working on the first stage of a new installation project which involves digitising brief fragments of 8mm film shot by my father during the 1960’s.
Technology, Design and the Arts – Opportunities and Challenges
Technology, Design and the Arts – Opportunities and Challenges, Earnshaw, R., Liggett, S., Excell, P., Thalmann, D. (Eds.), just published by Springer.com, this open access book contains two chapters that feature my work. Chapter 15: Chris Meigh-Andrews, Digital Moving Image Installations and Renewable Energy: 1994–2018 Chapter 18: Dr Alan Summers: In Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary […]