Chris Meigh-Andrews

In the period between January and April 1994, while I was artist in Residence in Digital Imaging in the School of Visual Arts, Music and Publishing at Oxford Brookes University, I developed Perpetual Motion, a gallery-based installation presenting a computer animation powered via a wind turbine. This early work initiated a series of installations presented within a “white cube” gallery setting and outside in the landscape in which renewable energy systems were integral to the themes and functioning of the work and to the ethos and concerns of my approach to working with moving image and sound technologies. This chapter traces the development of a significant body of work produced spanning a twenty-five-year period from this initial project to some of my most recent installations, discussing my ideas and intentions; describing the functioning and operation of the work; and identifying my influences, context and approach as well as the challenges and issues that I encountered.

Published in: Technology, Design and the Arts – Opportunities and Challenges, R. Earnshaw et al. (eds.), Springer Series on Cultural Computing,(pp.271-294)
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