BIO

Born in Papua New Guinea, Chris Howlett is an interdisciplinary Australian artist based in Brisbane. His practice merges interactive video, performance, sound art, site-specific sculpture, machinima, and painting to explore how emerging technologies reshape our cultural and political relationships with the physical and psychological self. Through fragmented narratives and visceral sensory encounters, Howlett’s work probes the paradox of technology as both a tool for liberation and a mechanism of control. Howlett has exhibited in galleries, festivals and museums across Australia, America, Germany, Italy, France, Finland, Bulgaria and Russia, including the Palace Grassi Theatre, Venice Italy, Berthold Centre, Russia, EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL (EMAF), Osnabrück Germany, XXI Triennial International Exhibition in Milan, GamerZ in Marseille, France, Inter-Society of Electronic Arts in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm; Videoholica International Video Art Festival in Bulgaria; Los Angeles Freewaves Festival of Film, Video and New Media and exhibited work at the Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena, California. His solo and collaborative works have also been exhibited locally at the Gallery of Modern Art, Institute of Modern Art, the QUT Art Museum, The Arc Biennial for Art & Design and interstate at the Contemporary Art Centre of South AUS, Hobart Art Gallery, Cairns Contemporary Art Space and Blindside Artist Run Space in Melbourne. He has received numerous grants and awards, including the Jeremy Hynes Award, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, stART Grant and the Anne & Gordon Samstag Scholarship. Howlett holds an MFA from CALARTS and a PhD in philosophy (Creative Practice) from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), in Brisbane, Australia.