BIOGRAPHY
Christopher Ernst is a media artist currently based in Buffalo, New York and a founding member of the film and video-art collective Octopus. Christopher is equally as invested in the self-reflexivity of structural film as he is in the hypermediacy of multichannel video installation and his practice stretches across genres ranging from experimental narrative to video art. His work has been exhibited internationally and he is the recipient of a number of arts grants and academic awards. Christopher received his BA in Film & Music from Hampshire College and his MFA from the Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
BOXING THE COMPASS - HD Video
WHITE DWARF - Multi-Channel Video Installation
15 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE - 16mm Film
· Boxing the Compass: New Film and Video Work - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY: April 23, 2008
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
THREAD - Multi-Channel Video Installation
· Exquisite Corpse - presented by Gallery 435, Hamilton, Ontario: May 9, 2008
IMMEDIATE MONUMENT - Video Installation
· Media Arts Regrant Exhibition - An exhibition of media works by Western New York Artists. Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda, NY. May 3rd through Friday, May 23rd, 2007.
GENEALOGY PROJECT - 16mm Film/Video
· Festival Antenna - Les Voûtes, Paris, France: March 15, 2008
· Experiments in Cinema V2.0 - Southwest Film Center, Albuquerque, NM: April 13, 2007
· Performance Video Performance - Open Video Projects at Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy: May 30, 2007
FORK - 16mm Film/Video Loop Installation
· Erie Electric - Smartwall Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY: April 8-14, 2007
· Silent/Sound Screening - Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center, Buffalo, NY: September 29, 2006
ATLAS - Video
· Open Video Projects, Blue Room, Rome, Italy: March 3, 2007
· 3rd Annual Resolutions Festival - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY: January 12-25, 2007
INSIDE - 16mm Film/Video
· OMSK at Collision Festival, Area 10 Project Space, London, UK: September 21-23, 2006
LEXEME - 16mm Film/Video
· Obsidian Frames - Gender Across Borders II: Research Subjects, Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center Buffalo, NY: April 22, 2006
HOLIDAY - 16mm Film/Video, and ATLAS - Video
· Interval 2 - Cine Lumiere - Institut Francais, London, UK: March 18, 2006
ALBUM: WHEN I WAKE UP, I ROLL OVER - 16mm Film/Video
· Love & Sex: The Peepshow, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY: February 25, 2006
PLACES I HAVE NEVER BEEN - 16mm Film/Video
· Flicker NYC, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY: February 26, 2005
· 9th Annual International Not Still Art Festival, Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY: October 2, 2004
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
STRIATED - Multi-Channel Video Installation (in collaboration with G.A. Rhodes and Bingxia Yu)
· Exquisite Corpse - presented by Gallery 435, Hamilton, Ontario: May 2008
HORIZON BODY - Multi-Channel Video Installation (in collaboration with Brian Milbrand and Carl Lee)
· Exquisite Corpse - presented by Gallery 435, Hamilton, Ontario: May 2008
TERMINUS - Multi-Channel Video/16mm Film Loop and Sound Installation (in collaboration with The Buffalo Super Friends & G.A. Rhodes)
· Hallwalls Artist & Models 20: Nocturminal, Central Terminal, Buffalo, NY: June 2, 2007
· Particulate - presented by LumpWest Gallery, Eugene OR: June - July 2007
· Particulate - presented by Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia PA: November 2 - December 2, 2007
ET IN ARCADIA EGO - Video Performance w/ Solo Cello (in collaboration with composer Otto Muller)
· Days of the New Music - Auditum Sound and Relation Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria: October 2, 2007
PUBLICATIONS - ONLINE & PRINT
"GENEALOGY MAP" (Mixed Media Collage) OMSKBOOK. London: OMSK, 2007
I AM SORRY. I CANNOT GET TO SLEEP BECAUSE. I AM HOMESICK. (16mm Film/Video) OMSKBOOK. London: OMSK, 2007
GENEALOGY PROJECT. (16mm Film/Video) Dérives Online Review Journal: Paris, www.derives.tv, 2008. http://www.derives.tv/spip.php?article182
SELECT MEDIA WORKS
· Boxing the Compass (2008) - HD/16mm, color, sound, 45min
· Thread (2008) - Multichannel Video Installation
· White Dwarf (2008) - Multichannel Video Installation
· Immediate Monument (2007) - Video Installation, 18min
· Search & Destroy (2007) - Video, color, sound, 9min
· Remains of a Wall (2007) - Video, color, sound, 6min
· Genealogy Project (2006) - 16mm/Video, B&W, sound, 10min
· Fork (2006) - 16mm/Video, color, sound, 4min
· I am Sorry. I Cannot Get to Sleep. Because I am Homesick. (2006) - 16mm/Video, color, sound, 2min
· Lexeme (2005) - 16mm/Video, color, sound, 9min
· Atlas (2005) - DV, color, sound, 3min
· Holiday (2005) - 16mm/DV, color, sound, 14min
· Paracosm (2004) - 16mm/DV, color, sound, 3min
· Places I Have Never Been (2003) - 16mm/DV, color, sound, 4min
· Album (2001 - 2003) - 16mm/DV, color, sound, 26min (Nine-Film Anthology)
COLLABORATIVE WORKS
· Horizon Body (2008) - Collaboration w/ composer G.A. Rhodes and Bingxia Yu, Multi-Channel Video
· Striated (2007) - Collaboration w/ Brian Milbrand and Carl Lee, Multi-Channel Video
· Et in Arcadia Ego (2007) - Collaboration w/ composer Otto Muller, Video Performance w/ Solo Cello
· Terminus (2007) - Collaboration w/ The Buffalo Super Friends & G.A. Rhodes, Multi-Channel Video/16mm
Loop and Sound Installation
AWARDS, ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
· Carnegie Art Center 2007 Video Production Grant
· Mark Diamond Research Fund 2007
· 2007 GSEU Professional Development Grant
· Graduate Representative, SUNY at Buffalo Department of Media Study Chair Search Committee, Fall 2006
· President, SUNY at Buffalo Department of Media Study Graduate Association, September 2006 - 2007
· College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Fellowship - SUNY at Buffalo AY 2006-2007
· 2006 GSEU Professional Development Grant
· College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Fellowship - SUNY at Buffalo AY 2005-2006
COURSES, TEACHING, WORKSHOPS
· SUNY at Buffalo Department of Media Study, Adjunct Instructor (2007), DMS400/516 Film Workshop - The New Cinema: Experiments in Film/Video/Hybrids
· Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center, Instructor (2006 - current), Lighting for Film and Video, Intro to 16mm Production, 16mm Editing
· SUNY at Buffalo Department of Media Study, Teaching Assistant: Instructor of Record (2005 - 2007), DMS101 Basic Filmmaking
· Hampshire College, Workshop Instructor (2003 - 2005), Film Production Workshop, Workshop in Lighting for Film and Video, Pro Tools Workshop, Final Cut Pro Workshop
· Hampshire College, Teaching Assistant (2000 - 2001), Film/Video I, The Nature and Practice of Musical Improvisation
EDUCATION
SUNY at Buffalo, Media Study (2005 - 2008) MFA
Hampshire College, Film & Music (1998 - 2001) BA
SELECT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
· Curator/Organizer: imMEDIAcy - Media Art Exhibition. Soundlab, Buffalo, NY, 2007
· Director of Photography: SEMINAR IN FILM SOUND, 16mm, 10 min, color, sound. Director, Steven Eastwood, 2007
· Director of Photography: MOBIUS STRIP, 16mm, 10 min, color, sound. Director, Ki-Seub Shin, 2007
· First Assistant Camera: THE FLANEUR, 16mm, 10min, color, sound. Director, Stefani Bardin, 2006
· First Assistant Camera: LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE, 16mm/DV, 16min, color, sound. Director, Steven Eastwood, 2007
· Film, Photography and Video Administrator and Technical Director (August 2003 - July 2005) Hampshire College - Amherst, MA
· Assistant Editor: UNA MUERTE DULCE (Video for performance collaboration with Danza Voluminosa: Havana, Cuba), DV 4min, color, sound. Director, Jacqueline Hayden. 2005
· Videographer (March 2002 - January 2003) Premier Talent Group - Boston, MA
· Assistant Editor: HARRIMAN: 1899 EXPEDITION RETRACED, 16mm/Beta SP, 120min, color, sound. Director, Lawrence Hott, Florentine Films 2001
· Assistant Editor: IMAGINING ROBERT, Beta SP, 60min, color, sound. Director, Lawrence Hott, Florentine Films 2001
· Director of Photography: APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION TO LIVE, 16mm, 20min, color, sound. Director, Molly Prickitt, 2001 |
