Chris Meigh-Andrews is an artist, writer and curator and Professor Emeritus of Electronic & Digital Art at the University of Central Lancashire. He has been exhibiting his video and installation work internationally since the late 1970’s and has held numerous artist-in- residence posts in the UK, Canada and Europe.
His commissioned and site-specific installations often feature renewable energy sources including wind and solar power and he was the recipient of a research award from the National Endowment of Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) in 2004 as part of a commission to develop the prototype for a self-powered outdoor video installation in Grizedale Forest. His installation, The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice), commissioned by architects Julian Harrap, produced a continuous stream of panoramic images from the top of the Monument in the City of London 24/7 for three years (2009-2011).
Meigh-Andrews has also initiated and curated a number of international exhibition events including “The Digital Aesthetic” (2001, 2007 & 2012) in collaboration with the Harris Museum, Preston and “Analogue: Pioneering Artists’ Video from the UK, Canada and Poland (1968-88)”, presented at Tate Modern and Tate Britain, and touring to venues in Liverpool, Norwich, Warsaw, New York, Toronto, Ottawa, Valletta and Berlin with funding from Arts Council England, the Polish Cultural Commission and the Canada Council. He also co-curated “Yes Snow Show”, showcasing recent digital work of renowned Canadian artist Michael Snow at the British Film Institute in London. In 2010 he was awarded a Diawa Foundation travel grant to visit Tokyo, Kyoto and Nagoya to research into early artists’ video in Japan.
Meigh-Andrews has also written extensively on the history and context of artists’ video. His book, A History of Video Art: the Development of Form and Function, (Berg, Oxford and New York, 2006) and in Japanese (Sangensha, Tokyo, 2013), provides an overview of the development of artists’ video since its inception. An enlarged and expanded edition of the book was published by Bloomsbury in Dec 2013 and will be published in Mandarin Chinese by the China Pictorial Publishing House, Beijing in 2018.
