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 Paris and Time Based Media Arts UK, Manang Residency Nepal, The Centre for Ionian Arts Greece and the University of Barcelona . He has taught creative arts practice and held research positions at a number of Universities in Australia including the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne, Western Sydney University, Wollongong University and the University of Technology Sydney where he was a senior lecturer and director of the Centre For Media Arts Innovation. The author of numerous articles, book chapters and the editor of collections and curated exhibition,s co-founder of the Media Object book series he is currently researcher in Residence at Museums of History NSW and a Visiting Professor at the University of Technology Sydney in the Creative Practice Research Group.
Fragments of works in progress on Instagram here
