“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"
3 Channel Video Installation
3 Channel Video Installation & 1 inch Scale Diorma
Single Channel Interactive Video Installation
2 Channel Video Installation
Consideration of several aspects of space — cinematic, cultural and sexual — 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.
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.
News
I
have been given a second faculty appointment in the School of
Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering starting May 1,
2010.
Dr. Bharat Soni, Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and I are
spear-heading a brand new interdisciplinary certificate program between
Art & Engineering. We are calling it Leonardo and you can download
the brochure here.
Current Project
The Tease
interactive boîte d'optique is finished and on display at Bare Hands Gallery for the Birmingham Biennial. I will be posting an essay for the Tease piece soon. In the meantime enjoy these images.
Upcoming Projects
Currently a few projects are in process. I am working on a stop frame animation, a couple of pre-cinematic devices (refer to Tease),
and this summer I will be working on a project with Dr. Bharat Soni,
Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and his team at the Enabling
Technology Lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Current Exhibitions
January 14 - 30: Rogue Space Chelsea's International Juried Show,
Chelsea, New York. Juror: David Cohen, editor and publisher of
artcritical.com, is also gallery director at the New York Studio
School, and was art critic and contributing editor at the New York Sun
from 2003-08. He is moderator of the Review Panel which takes place at
the National Academy Museum and School of Art.
February 12 - March 6: Logsdon 1909 Gallery's "Desire .10" exhibition in Chicago, Illinois. Juror: Marco Logsdon
February 12 - March 6: University of Alabama at Birmingham's Visual Arts Gallery in the Department of Art's Faculty Exhibition.
April 9 - May 22: Birmingham Biennial 3 at Bare Hands Gallery. Juror: Dan Cameron, former senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York,
currently director of visual art at New Orleans' Contemporary Arts
Center and curator of Prospect 1 New Orleans, the largest biennial
exhibition ever staged in the US.
May 28 - July 30: The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show at the Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery in Bloomington, Indiana. Jurors: Lisa D. Freiman, Ph.D, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Betsy Stirratt, Director of School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University. Garry Milius, Associate Curator at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.
July 31 - September 24: (5) Other People's Projections
at K Space Contemporary in Corpus Christi, Texas. 5 video artists have
been invited to participate. Jurors: Gerald Lopez (Chair Exhibitions
Committee), Michelle Smythe (Director K Space Contemporary) and
Jennifer Arnold (Exhibitions Committee and Board Member).