Chris Caines is an artist living on the land of the Dharug and Gundugurra peoples in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. Producing films, articles, book chapters, site-specific media installation and mobile/locative media alongside regular music releases and performances.
Caines’s studio practice embraces the linkages between media and location across multiple modalities in video, sound, live performance and network media. For three decades he has pursued and developed a sustained meditation on media as live archive to be continually re-composed as a way of revealing new knowledge about the constructions of history, embodied place and the ephemeral nature of our understandings of the past.
His work has been commissioned and collected by a diverse range of major Festivals and Museums including ACMI, The Queensland Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate UK, the Art Gallery of NSW and the Sydney, New York, EMAF, Berlin, Venice and Cannes media and film festivals. Production of this work has been supported by numerous art and research grants, public commissions and international arts and scholarly residencies. These have included the University of The Arts London, University of Colorado, Chulalongkorn University, Art and Technology Research Labs Kyoto, Centre Pompidou and Time Based Media Arts UK . He has produced commercial media design projects for clients as diverse as the Nine Network, ABC Australia, SBS, Austraila, The Museum of Sydney, Customs House Sydney and Lend Lease. He is the author of numerous articles, book chapters and the editor of collections and curated exhibitions. He founded the Media Object expanded book series for practice based art research at UTS ePress with designer Zoe Sadokierski.
Works in progress (and daily visual thinking of a sort) on Instagram here
