Chris Joseph

Art Types involved-in: Multimedia

Chris Joseph Biography:
Chris Joseph (1973 - ) is a UK multimedia artist who works primarily with electronic text, sound and image. He was born in Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom, and is a British and Canadian citizen.

His multimedia work is offered as single pieces or complete sets, has been widely exhibited in exhibitions around the world since 2002. 

Chris Joseph has received multiple awards for his artistic works, including the IBM Prize for New Media and the first 'Premio per l’Arte Digitale' awarded by the Italian Ministry of Culture, Department for Cultural and Environmental Heritage, National Museum for 21st Century Arts and the Fondazione Rosselli.

Selected Awards --
2017: Winner, Game Design Awards, Dundee, Scotland
2016: Winner, Best Overall Game, GameCity Festival, Nottingham, UK
2015: Winner, The Space Tumblr international Prize in Digital Art
2014: Winner, Outstanding Achievement in Advocacy & Healthcare Awards, London, UK
2011: Winner, New Media Age Effectiveness Award, London, UK
2008: Selected Works, European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008
2009: Selected Finalist, VAD 2009 (International Festival of Video and Digital Arts),Girona, Spain
2007: IBM Prize for New Media, Stuttgart, Germany
2006: Winner, Premio per l’arte digitale, Italian Ministry of Culture, Department for Cultural and Environmental Heritage, DARC (General Directorate for Contemporary Architecture and Art, MAXXI (National Museum for 21st Century Arts) and the Fondazione Rosselli

Chris Joseph's Representative Works Exhibitions:
2017: El Arte En Juego, C3 (Centro Cultural de la Ciencia), Buenos Aires, Argentina; IndieCade Festival (International Festival of Independent Games) 2017, Los Angeles, USA; I Premio Ciberia de Selección de Obras Infantiles y Juveniles, Madrid, Spain

2016: International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany; Flic Festival of Literatura Infantil i Juvenil, Madrid, Spain; Electronic Literature Conference, University of Victoria, Canada; International Conference on Digital Literary Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

2015: International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark; Festival de Artes Electrónicas y Video Transitio_MX 06, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico

2014: Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany; Vector Game + Art Convergence Festival 2014, Toronto, Canada; 27th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany; Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithica, New York, USA

2013: Laboratoire Paragraphe and the EnsAD (Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs), Paris, France; Telecom Italia Future Centre, Campo San Salvador, Venice, Italy; IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Adelaide, Australia; DIG Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia

2012: Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany; National University, Singapore; Perth Cultural Centre, Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia;

2011: Transitio-MX Festival of Electronic and Video Arts, Mexico; European eLiterature Collection; Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania; Santander Cultural Porto Alegre, Brazil

2010: 23rd Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany; Wyspa Institute, Gdansk, Poland; ICA 2010, Open Space, Singapore; Creative Play Biennial, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

2009: Shang Elements Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China; VIII Salón Internacional De Arte Digital, Maracaibo, Venezuela; Urban Screens, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia; Media Forum, Moscow International Film Festival, Russia; Montreal Biennial, Canada; 

2008: International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2008, Singapore; 2008 Biennale of Sydney; Art Tech Media 07, Madrid, Spain; Digital Media Valencia 2008, Valencia, Spain; Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montreal, Canada

2007: DARC (General Direction for Contemporary Architecture and Art) and MAXXI (National Museum of the XXI Century Arts), Rome, Italy; Festival Animatu, Beja, Portugal; 8th Seoul International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea; Boston Cyberarts, Boston, USA; Electronic Language International Festival, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2006: Festival de Arte Audiovisual, Guadalajarra, Mexico; International Digital Art Festival, Aarhus, Denmark; CYNETart, Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany; Media Art Friesland 2006, Leeuwarden, Drachten, Beetsterzwaag and Groningen, The Netherlands; Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival, Edinburgh, UK; Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Perth, Australia; Izolenta/06 International Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia; D>Art.2006, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

2005: VAD Video and Digital Arts International Festival, Girona, Spain; International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Rosario, Argentina; Biennale of Video & New Media, Santiago, Chile; 9th International Video Festival Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia; INCUBA, 1st Festival of Electronic Arts, Santa Cruz, Argentina; Electrofringe 2005, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia; SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, USA; Seoul Net Festival, Seoul, Korea; Harvard University, USA

2004: New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada; Biennale of Electronic Art, Perth, Australia; Digital Visions, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; VI Salon Internacional de Arte Digital, Havana, Cuba; Goethe Institut, Bangkok, Thailand; Thailand New Media Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand; ACA Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Met Museum of Photography, Japan; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2003: Perspectives'03, Computer Space Festival 2003 and Goethe Institut-Internationes, Sofia, Bulgaria; TRANZTECH International Media Art Biennale, Toronto, Canada; Electronic Language International Festival (FILE), São Paulo, Brazil; Nonetart Festival, Arte Digital Rosario 2003, Argentina; Lancaster Film & New Media Festival, UK; Pescara Electronic Art Festival, Italy; Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival, Thailand; Videoformes: 18th International Festival of Video and Multimedia, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2002: Artmedia, Buenos Aires, Argentina; cybermedia events, 43rd International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece; Fluxus 1st International Film Festival on the Internet, Brazil; AJAC (All Nations & Japan Artists Co-operation) show, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Computer Space Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria; Minikino Film Festival, Maribor, Slovenia; Liverpool Biennial, UK; Window, Auckland University, New Zealand

Graduation School: Cambridge University

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