Kuljit S Chuhan ::
 

digital artist and filmmaker,
 
  creative producer and cultural consultant

 

:about + general: :video: :digital art: :exhibition/published:

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

  

·         SIGGRAPH 2007  San Diego, USA – “What If I’m Not Real” interactive installation with performance

·         The Green Room  Manchester 2007 – “Exhale” collaborative media and performance art works with Virtual Migrants

·         Asian Contemporary Art Week  American Museum of Folk Art, New York, USA 2006 – “Rekindle I” single screen video installation

·         The Green Room  Manchester 2005  – “No Trace” multi-screen interactive installation with live art performance

·         Plymouth Arts Centre  2005  – “What If I’m Not Real” interactive installation

·         Watermans Arts Centre  London 2005  – “What If I’m Not Real” interactive installation

·         Street Level Gallery  Glasgow 2004  – “What If I’m Not Real” interactive installation

·         Q Gallery  Derby 2004  – “What If I’m Not Real” interactive installation

·         Manchester Art Gallery  2004 – “Re-tracing Reflections” video triptych (commissioned for Art04)

·         The Manchester Museum  2004  – “From H To O” interactive projected installation

·         Espace Multimedia Gantner  Bourogne, France 2003 – “Resonance” Interactive ROM (permanent acquisition)

·         The Manchester Museum  2003  – “Rekindle” multi-screen interactive installation (commission and permanent acquisition)

·         The ICA  London (New Media Centre) 2002  – “What If I’m Not Real” interactive installation (for Virtual Migrants’ “Terminal Frontiers” exhibition)

·         Castlefield Gallery  Manchester 2002  – “What If I’m Not Real” multi-screen installation (for Virtual Migrants’ “Terminal Frontiers” exhibition)

·         “AfterShock” Commonwealth Games art exhibition  Zion Arts Centre, Manchester 2002  – “Metamotion” interactive installation using ROM projection

·         St George’s Hall  Liverpool 2002  – “Boundless Sky” multi-screen dance installation

·         The Lowry  Manchester 2002  – “Boundless Sky” multi-screen dance installation

·         The Manchester United Museum 2001 – “From Punjab To Football” video installation

·         ISEA 2000  Paris, France  – “Resonance” Interactive ROM

·         Beechwood Centre for the Arts  Ohio, USA 1999  – “Resonance” Interactive ROM

·         Chatsworth House  Derbyshire 2002  – “Boundless Sky” multi-screen dance installation

·         Lovebytes  International Electronic Art Festival 1999, Sheffield  – “Resonance” Interactive ROM

·         Oldham Art Gallery  1999  – “Resonance” multi-screen interactive installations

·         ISEA 98  Liverpool & Manchester  – “Virtual Migrants” interactive CD-ROM

·         Street Level Gallery  Glasgow 1997  – “Nachural Struggle” interactive ROM installation

·         Video Positive 97  International Electronic Art Festival, Liverpool  – “Nachural Struggle” interactive ROM installation

·         Video Positive 95  International Electronic Art Festival, Liverpool  – “Even As We Speak” multi-screen installation

 

PUBLISHED WORK

 

(This section is currently in development)

 

·         “Exhale” DVD with Audio CD and booklets containing essays and contexts (Virtual Migrants, 2007)

·         “Pathways 06” artists’ publication featuring “No Frame Required” film on DVD witrh accompanying text (LIME, 2006)

·         “Aftershock” artists’ publication featuring my installation work “Metamotion”, as an interactive CD-ROM, incl. work by the Singh Twins (Commonwealth Games Arts Programme, 2002)

·          “Observe Interpret React” website online art works (Manchester United / Trafford MBC, 2001) – no longer online

·         Experimenta  (Australia, 1999) refereed text: online article on Virtual Migrants http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh_2000/index.htm#virtual 

·          “Through The Looking Glass” website  (Beechwood Centre For The Arts, Ohio, USA 1999) http://www.voyd.com/ttlg/

·          Variant  1998 – commissioned essay on “Virtual Migrants: Imperialism as Deportation, Art as Ideology”

·          “Virtual Revolutions” artists CD-ROM featuring my interactive work “Resonant Reflections” (FACT, 1999)

·          “Shared Experience” artists CD-ROM (FACT, 1995)
 

 

PRESENTATIONS, TALKS, CONFERENCES

 

(This section is currently in development – numerous activities have taken place)

 

- current/recent:

 

·         Are Museums Racist?  Manchester Museum, UK (October 2007) – presentation for panel discussion.

·         ISEA Developments and Archive  Discussion session, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (September 07).  Panel presentation incl. presentation of my own film entitled ‘Between Zero And One’

·         Creating A Culture Of Visibility  Belfast, Northern Ireland (September 2007).  Panel presentation on the theme of ‘How Can The Arts Speak For Minority Communities?’

·         Creolising Europe  International Conference, Manchester University, UK (September 07).  Presentation of a talk entitled “Crossing Aesthetic Territories”

·         SIGGRAPH 07  San Diego, California, USA (August 2007) – artists’ talk and presentation entitled “Crossing Aesthetic Territories”

·         ISEA 06  San Jose, California, USA (August 2006) – ‘poster’ exhibit and presentation of a session entitled “A Handful Of Seeds”

·         ICT for an Inclusive Society  European Conference, Riga, Latvia (June 2006) – a presentation on New Media, Cultural Diversity and Art

 


you can contact Kooj on:  info[a]kooj.net