Artist Statement

“My practice explores perception and subjective experience as they are mediated by digital and analogue technologies in everyday life. I use basic or obsolete forms of technology to investigate the materiality of photography and the moving image. In the spirit of the everyday enthusiast – the amateur photographer or garage inventor – I approach these media as open fields of possibility rather than fixed modes of working.

“For the work Instamatic, low-resolution digital still cameras were used to record easily overlooked moments of beauty in everyday life. Accumulated over several years, these short ‘video snapshots’ are presented using domestic digital photo frames. The low resolution is such that the videos resemble animations, echoing the comparison of early photographs to drawings. The processing of this already obsolete technology leaves its trace on the image, as the shifting pixels take on the characteristics of flowing water, a rustling breeze or the play of light.”

Chris Handran

Artist Bio

Chris Handran is an artist based in Brisbane, Australia, who works with photography, video, sound and installation. His work has been exhibited in public galleries and galleries throughout Australia, most notably at the Queensland Art Gallery, Museum of Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art and Queensland Centre for Photography. His work has also been exhibited at the Taiwan International Artist's Village, Taipei, and screened at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK. In 2007 he was awarded an Australia Council Studio Residency in London, which he used to research early photography and film equipment and processes.

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