Christopher Hales
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- RISEBA University
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Chris Hales has exhibited interactive film installations dating as far back as ARTEC’95 in Japan and Future Cinema at ZKM in 2003. His PhD (2006) was entitled Rethinking the Interactive Movie. Group interaction was investigated with the Cause & Effect interactive filmshow (2003–2012) designed for audiences in cinemas. Research was carried out in Prague to discover the forgotten secrets of Kinoautomat, the world’s first interactive film (1967). Chris has taught hundreds of workshops related to experimental filmmaking and interactivity as a freelance lecturer. Since 2020 he is Assistant Professor at RISEBA University in Riga.
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Christopher Hales M Phil/PhD Research student in Interactive Film Art at the Royal College of Art, Film Department. Senior Lecturer in New Media at the University of West of England Faculty of Art, Media and Design. Freelance interactive designer with Research Arts, London. MA(RCA) European Interactive Multimedia, 1994 (Royal College of Art).Landscape paintings and prints exhibited in various galleries. The CD-ROM Twelve was released in November, 1996 on the experimental Laboratory label LABOO2 by Research Publishing Ltd, and consists of 2 interactive movies. The Twelve Loveliest Things I Know installation was awarded the Prize for Artistic Excellence at the ARTEC95 exhibition in Japan. Interactive CD-ROM films have been shown at Melbourne International Film Festival 1996, Brisbane International Film Festival 1996, Techne, IMAGO Centre, Perth 1997, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage 1997, FCMM (Montreal) 1997. Installation showing several interactive movies has been shown at: ARTEC95 Nagoya, Japan, EMAF, Osnabruck, Germany 1995, IMPAKT Utrecht, Holland 1996, Language of Interactivity, Sydney, Australia 1996, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Germany 1997, FCMM Montreal, Canada 1997. Other installations include the Royal College of Art, London 1995, MILIA New Talent Pavilion 1995, Cannes, France, LoveBytes Festival, Sheffield, UK 1995, ARTEC97 Nagoya, Japan — ‘SAUDADE’ Installation. Talks, presentations and papers at the Faculty de Beaux Arts, Aix-en-Provence 1995, 14th Eurographics Conference, London 1996 (An overview of interactive film art), Language of Interactivity, Sydney, Australia 1996 (interactive film art), Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Germany 1997 (Why Make Movies lnteractive?), Watershed Media Centre, Bristol 1997 (interactive film art), Kungs Techniska Hogskolen, Fine Art Academy (video), Dramatiska Institutet, NHS Grafisk Centrum and Stockholm, Sweden 1997, and FCMM Montreal, Canada 1997 University of the West of England
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Title: Portobello and Pirouettes, or, Do We Always Need “Narrative” If We Have Content?
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Title: Interacting with the Moving Image: Experiences and Outcomes of Teaching ‘Interactive Film’ in the Baltic States
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Title: Cooperative Aesthetic Experience in Participatory and Interactive Art
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