Chris Welsby is Professor of Fine Art Film and Video at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He is considered one of the world’s leading exponents of experimental film and video. He is a participant in the University of British Columbia's Institute for Computing, Information, and Cognitive Systems (ICICS), an interdisciplinary research institute.

For two months Professor Welsby has been artist in residence at AUT University's CoLab Creative Technology Centre. He is returning to Canada in December. Professor Welsby has very kindly agreed to be the Guest Lecturer at Bitesize Art on Thursday 26 November 2009 at 6.00 pm preceded by bite-size drinks and nibbles at 5.45 pm. Oaks Room: enter from Brighton Rd carpark entrance

Unlike the landscape painters and photographers of the nineteenth century, I have avoided the objective view point implicit in panoramic vistas or depictions of homogeneous pictorial space. I have instead concentrated on 'close up' detail and the more transient aspects of the landscape, using the flickering, luminous characteristics of the film and video mediums, and their respective technologies, to suggest both the beauty and fragility of the natural world. Chris Welsby

In all my films and installations I use the simple structuring capabilities of moving image technologies, such as variable-frame rate, in-camera editing and multiple projection, in combination with natural phenomena such as wind and tides and the rotation of the planet, to produce works in which mind, technology, and nature are not seen as separate things divided along Cartesian lines, but as interconnected parts of one larger dynamic system. Chris Welsby

The image of the tree in Welsby’s work is a powerful one for reminding us that both the fragility as well as the strength of all living systems, is derived from their ability to exist in dynamic equilibrium with their environment. The singular tree in Tree Studies is one of many in the forest, the forest that so few of us urban dwellers have time to directly experienced, thereby failing to understand the significance and history of forests in determining the larger ecological system of the planet which is now under threat.
Mike Leggat, University of Technology, Sydney

"Welsby's vision is unique in the context of the English Avant-Garde."
The British Film Institute

"Welsby's work makes it possible to envisage a different kind of relationship between science and art, in which observation is separated from surveillance, and technology from domination."
Peter Wollen, in Millennium Film Journal, New York

“In the 20-minute Seven Days (1974) Welsby finds his mature voice, offering a tour de force unlike anything cinema had yet seen.”
Fred Camper in The Chicago Reader, 2001

Born in Exeter in 1948, Chris Welsby studied at Chelsea School of Art and The Slade School of Art, and was an early member of the London Filmmakers' Co-operative. His films and film/video installations have been exhibited internationally at major galleries such as the Tate and Hayward galleries (London, UK), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) the Museum du Louvre and Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), the Carnegie Institute, (Pittsburgh, USA), the Western Front, (Vancouver, Canada) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada).
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