Christopher Lowther
 
 

“Cowboy Cruising” was a multi-media and multi-projector piece which exploited the way men look at each other in classic Western films—where the gaze takes on clear homoerotic and homosocial connotations.

Joan Hawkins, author of "Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avante-Garde"
 
"Cowboy Cruising" 2005-06
"Out of the Myth" Video Installation  
The “Out of the Myth” series is comprised of four pieces that explore censorship in film and space. The pieces are united as an examination of cinematic space, and a desire to make Queer space in cinema through recontextualization, extension and other artistic strategies.
   
   
Cowboy Cruising 2005-06
3 Channel Video Installation		  
Rope Reconstructed 2007
 3 Channel Video Installation & 1 inch Scale Diorma		  
Representations of sexual preference or orientation are complex processes in the cinema. From the classic scene in the Maltese...more This inability to speak is not evident in Lowther’s next project, the conceptually and architecturally adventurous Rope Reconstructed. The...more
   
A Queer Shadow 2007
Single Channel Interactive Video Installation		  
Rebel Love: A Woman Scorned 2006-07
2 Channel Video Installation		  
Questions shift from interior, domestic space to exterior, sexualized space, inform A Queer Shadow, Lowther’s single projection...more
 Turn finally to Rebel Love: A Woman Scorned, in which Lowther deconstructs Nicholas Ray’s classic film Rebel Without a Cause. Widely...more
   
   
Artist's Statement  

Consideration of several aspects of space — cinematic, cultural and homosexual — are directions that I have taken with my work in various digital art mediums. In some instances the intersection of these directions reveals faults and cracks, fissures that need to be exposed and re-evaluated. The slippage that occurs along these faults suggests new ways of looking at space and the ways in which we experience and negotiate space. 

   
   
Other Works  
   
"Somnambulist" 2005  
"Living Room" 2005  
A single channel video based on personal dream metaphors and symbolism. A single channel interactive Flash installation that explores the relationship between entertainment and surveillance.
   
   
Email  
digital@uab.edu  
   
   
Biography  

Christopher Lowther is Assistant Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He teaches Video, animation, interactive design, and 3D modeling/animation. Lowther is the recipient of the prestigious College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship (funded by the National Endowment for the Arts) in recognition of his innovative use of space and video projection to reference stereotypes of masculinity in Hollywood film. Lowther's videos and installations have exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Current Project
I am currently working on an interactive boîte d'optique which you can view at the UAB Faculty Exhibit in February. You can also see one of the still images at the Rogue Space Chelsea exhibit until the end of January.

Current Exhibitions
January 14th - 30th, 2010 he will be showing at Rogue Space Chelsea's International Juried Show in Chelsea, NY. February 12 - March 6, 2010 he will be showing at Logsdon 1909 Gallery's "Desire .10" exhibition in Chicago, Illinois. And he'll be showing February 12 - March 6, 2010 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Visual Arts Gallery in the Department of Art's Faculty Exhibition.