I create electronic literature, multimedia and digital art, which may include text, images and video, sound and reader/viewer participation.

The Electronic Literature Organization have a useful definition of e-lit:

…works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer.

Some of my ongoing projects include:

• Inanimate Alice, a series of multimedia stories created with novelist Kate Pullinger
• Flight Paths, a ‘networked novel’ created with Kate Pullinger and online collaborators, supported by the Arts Council England
• remixworx, a collaborative digital remixing community
• 391.org – a post-dada magazine and artist network

Past projects include:

• NRG, a bicycle-powered interactive multimedia installation around the themes of sustainable energy, supported by Arts Council England and the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
• The Breathing Wall, a digital novel that responds to the reader’s breathing rate, created with Kate Pullinger and Stefan Schemat
• Animalamina, an A-Z collection of multimedia animal poetry for children supported by Canada Council for the Arts

Contact

You can email me at chris {at} 391.org or use this contact form.

Selected Awards

• Selected Work, 23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany (2010) [NRG]
• Shortlisted Work, BETT Awards, UK (2010) [Lifelines]
• Selected Finalist, VAD (International Festival of Video and Digital Arts), Girona, Catalonia (2009) [NRG]
• Selected Works, European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 [Inanimate Alice Episodes 1-3]
• Selected Finalist, 2008 CULTURAS Intercultural Dialogue Awards, Madrid, Spain (2007) [Alicia Inanimada]
• Selected Finalist, 8th Seoul International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea (2007) [The Surveys]
• IBM Prize for New Media, 20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany (2007) [Inanimate Alice]
• Selected Works, 20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany (2007) [Inanimate Alice Episodes 1 & 2]
• Selected Work, Videomedeja 10th International Video Festival, Novi Sad, Croatia (2006) [Urbanalities]
• Selected Work, III International Festival of Digital Art, Santa Fe, Argentina (2006) [Inanimate Alice]
• Selected Works, Astas Romas, Rosario, Argentina (2006) [Inanimate Alice]
• Selected Works, 404 International Festival of Electronic Art, Rosario, Argentina (2006) [Inanimate Alice Episodes 1 & 2]
• Selected Finalist, ACM SiGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology 2006, Los Angeles, USA (2006) [Inanimate Alice]
• Selected Finalist, Seoul Net Festival, Seoul, Korea (2006) [Inanimate Alice and Zinhar]
• Finalist, 2006 Digital Media Awards, Dublin, Ireland – ‘Hall of Fame’ category (2006)
• Winner, Premio per l’arte digitale 2005, Italian Ministry of Culture, Department for Cultural and Environmental Heritage, DARC (General Directorate for Contemporary Architecture and Art, MAXXI (National Museum for 21st Century Arts) and the Fondazione Rosselli, (2006) [Inanimate Alice]
• Selected Work, Playzone, Samsung Media Lounge, Seoul Net Festival, Korea (2005) [Eisenstein’s Monster]
• Jury Recommended Work, ACA Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan (2004) [Animalamina]
• Jury Recommended Work, 9th Art on the Net, Tokyo, Japan (2004) [Protesters, Police, Politicians]
• Jury Recommended Work, MAD ’03 Net Digit, Madrid, Spain (2003) [Patinage]
• Audience Selected Work, Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival, Chiangmai, Thailand (2003) [Patinage]

Interviews
Omphalos Dada (April 2012)
Digital Media World (Jan 2012)
Furtherfield (May 2007)
framed (Nov 2006)