CV
Curriculum vitae - Charlie Tweed
Education
1993-94 Chelsea College of Art, Foundation Fine Art
1994-97 Oxford Brookes University, BA Hons Fine Art
1997-98 Oxford Brookes University, MA Electronic Media
2006 - 08 Goldsmiths College, MFA Art Practice
2011 - 2018 Kingston University, PHD Fine Art by Practice (AHRC Studentship)
Research and academic positions
2022-present Postgraduate Coordinator, Art, BSU
2015-present - Senior Lecturer, BSU
2011-2018 AHRC Funded PhD Researcher in Fine Art, Kingston University
2015-present Leader of the Art and Technology Research Group, BSU
2018-2021 Co-Editor, The International Journal of Creative Media Research
2020-22-Peer reviewer, The Journal of Visual Art Practice
2019-20 EarthArt Industrial Research Fellow, Earth Sciences, Bristol University
2004-2012 Co-Director and Curator, Alma Enterprises Gallery, London
Fellowships, awards and residencies
2019-20 Earth Sciences, Bristol University Industrial Fellowship Grant
2019-20 QR Research Funding Grant, Bath Spa University
2014-16 Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award
2011-18 AHRC PHD Studentship, Kingston University
2011 and 2005 Grizedale Arts Residency, programme
2010 Winner of Emergency, Aspex, Gallery, Portsmouth
2009 Winner of ECO, Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre
2008 Winner of the Galerie Klatova Prize, Czech Republic
2008 Sommerakademie, Fellowship – dragged down into lowercase, Paul Klee Centre, Bern, Switzerland (Curated by Clementine Deliss and Oscar Tuazon)
2008 Whitstable Biennale, New Performance Commission
2007 AGORA, PACT, Essen, Germany (exhibition and residency)
Conferences:
2024 Doing Together II, Creative Practice Symposium, BSU
2023 Fiction Machines IV, BSU
2023 Doing Together, Creative Practice Symposium, BSU
2019 Nordic Geographers Meeting, Trondheim University, Norway
2019 Digital Ecologies II: Fiction Machines, BSU (organiser)
2017 Digital Ecologies I: Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene, BSU (organiser)
2016 Silent Signal Conference, University of Dundee, presented paper
2016 Warm Bodies, Cold Machines, Dusseldorf, presented film
2016 STRATA Conference, Aberystwyth University, presented paper
2013 Geologies of Value and Vestige Conference, Kingston University (organiser)
2013 Transwhat Symposium, Supermarket, Berlin
2012 Space and Place, Mansfield College
Recent Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions:
2020 Notes from the subsurface, EarthArt Gallery, Earth Sciences, Bristol University
2017 Soon we will become output, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
2013 I am Algorithm, Aspex, Portsmouth
2013 I am Algorithm, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
2011 Notes I,II & III, Alma Enterprises, London
2011 New methods of diversification and sustainability, Grizedale Arts, Cumbria
2010 Notes I,II & III, Spike Island, Bristol
Selected Group Exhibitions, screenings, symposia and performances
2024 Arte Scienza Festival, Goethe Institute, Rome (screening selected by MA/In curators)
2024 Braziers Film Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire (Official Selection)
2023 Fiction Machines IV, Bath School of Art, (screening and symposium)
2023 Video Art Miden, Rethinking Gaia Festival (screening)
2022 Under_The_Radar_Festival for artist’s film & experimental media, Austria.
2022 Art Practice Based Research Series: Session 5 – Guest Speaker
2022 Imagining Tomorrow Today: Examining the promise of Art/Technology/Science collaboration, Reading School of Art (screening and performance lecture)
2022 On Art Poland Film Festival (Official Selection), Warsaw, Poland.
2022 Bird Call, Freyberger Gallery, Penn State University, USA. (group exhibition)
2021 Art Museums and Digital Cultures Conference, MAAT, Lisbon (presented paper)
2021 New sound work presented on Spike Island FM
2021 Fiction Machines – Part III (online symposium event)
2021 Film Screening and Performance: Charlie Tweed Notes From The Subsurface, Spike Island, Bristol.
2020 Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, London
2020 Strangelove Film Festival, (Official Selection)
2020 Labocine Magazine Spotlight: Charlie Tweed: Humans, nature and control
2020 Emotional Interfaces screening and performance event, La Machine Du Moulin Rouge, Paris.
2019 Rencontres Internationale Paris/Berlin, Pompidou Centre, Paris and HKW Berlin (official selection)
2019 Emotional Interfaces online exhibition, Wrong Media Art Biennale (official selection)
2019 Black Box, Biomedicine West Wing Foyer, Times Square, Newcastle
2019 0.1%, Navel Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (sci/art group exhibition)
2019 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK (official selection)
2018 Infinite Multiple Commission, Infinite Multiple, London.
2018 Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, London (group exhibition)
2018 TBCTV, Somerset House, London (group exhibition)
2018 Screenworks showcase, Cube, Bristol (event/curator)
2018 Altered States, Crypt, London (group exhibition)
2018 Kew gardens Film Festival, Queens Museum, NYC (official selection)
2017 WRO Media Art Biennale, WRO Center, Poland (official selection)
2017 VAEFF, Tribeca Film Centre, NYC (official selection)
2017 NYC Independent Film Festival, New York (official selection)
2016 NeON Digital Arts Festival, Dundee (official selection)
2016 Selected 6 (curated by Videoclub), touring to Whitechapel Gallery, Watershed, Plymouth Arts Centre, CCA Glasgow)
2016 Both Sides Now 3: Screenings in East Asia (curated by videoclub)
2016 Silent Signal, Wellcome Trust Commission produced by Animate Projects touring to: Quad, Derby; Vivid, Birmingham; Lifespace, Dundee; Oberhausen Short Film Festival.
2015 The Signal and the rock, Performance Lecture, CAFA, Beijing
2015 Film Open (selected by Steven Cairns ICA) touring to: ICA, London; Spike Island, Bristol; Transmission, Glasgow; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; Castlefield, Manchester
2015 We are publication, ICA, London (group exhibition)
2015 Limbo Associates show selected by Adam Chodzko, Margate. (group exhibition)
2013 SUB 12, Substation, Melbourne (group exhibition)
2013 News from the sun, Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter (group exhibition)
2012 London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (group exhibition)
2012 Grain (newly commissioned performance), Whitechapel Gallery, London
2012 Cultivation Field, The Keep, Reading (group exhibition)
2011 Videoholica 2011, Varna, Bulgaria (official selection)
2011 They Came from Earth, Hackney Wicked Festival (curated by Pil and Galia Kollectiv)
2011 Experimentica, Chapter, Cardiff (group exhibition)
2011 Box Season 5, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales (group exhibition)
2010 Who Wants to Act Now, or Even See Acting, DEPO, Istanbul (group exhibition)
2010 Multichannel: Variable economies, Artsway, Sway, UK (group exhibition)
2010 MAB Film Exercise, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (group exhibition)
2010 MODIFICATIONS, Aarhus Centre for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, Denmark (group exhibition)
2009 Time is a sausage, Domobaal, London, UK (group exhibition)
2009 So much more, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic (group exhibition)
2009 Started, Galerie Klatovy / Klenová - Czech Republic (group exhibition)
2008 dragged down into lowercase, Paul Klee Centre, Bern (group exhibition)
2008 100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art, TFL Platform for Art, A Foundation, Rochelle School, London (October 2008) Newly commissioned poster that was also positioned at various London Underground stations.
2008 Start Point 2008 (European Academies Award), Galerie Klatovy / Klenová, Czech Republic (group exhibition)
2007 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Rochelle School London and Cornerhouse, Manchester. (group exhibition)
Invited Talks and Keynotes
2020 Notes on the Subsurface, Performance lecture, Bristol University
2019, Artist’s talk, University of West of England (talk and tutorials), (BA Fine Art)
2018 Artist’s talk, University of West of England (talk and tutorials) (BA Fine Art)
2017 Artist’s talk, University of South Wales (BA Photo Art)
2016 Artist’s talk,, Lifespace, Dundee
2014 ‘Art in the City Talks: Charlie Tweed’, Arnolfini, Bristol (talk and performance)
2013 ‘Charlie Tweed and Tony David Sampson’, Aspex, Portsmouth (talk/event)
2013 Artist’s talk/performance, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter.
2013 Artist’s talk, Plymouth University, Fine Art.
2012 Artist’s talk, University of West of England (talk and tutorials), (BA Fine Art)
2011 ‘Charlie Tweed – Known Unknowns’, Spike Island, Bristol (talk)
2011, Associates reading group (event)
2004-2012 Curator and organiser of talks, performances and events at Alma Enterprises Gallery, London (Bethnal Green and Southwark)
Publications/interviews/artist’s books:
2023 Art in the Age of Ecocide, Bloomsbury Publishing (commissioned chapter)
2023 Swamp Mechanism, Hoax Publication, London (writing)
2022 Art Museums and Digital Cultures Publication, MAAT, Lisbon (chapter)
2022 Notes On The Subsurface, EarthArt Gallery, Bristol (publication)
2020 IJCMR Special Issue: ‘Fiction Machines’, Co-Editor (journal special issue)
2019 Fiction Machines: Oporavak, IJCMR (journal article)
2019 Building Proposals (After Fantastic Architecture), commissioned section (artist’s book).
2018 Screenworks Special Issue: ‘Digital ecologies and the anthropocene’, Co-Editor (journal special issue)
2018 Re-writing the operations of the ‘electronic noosphere’ and its control over populations and environment, (PhD Thesis)
2017 The Signal and the rock Stanley Picker Gallery, (ISBN: 978-1-5272-1783-6) (artist’s book, made in collaboration with Modern Activity)
2013 I am algorithm publication, Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre (artist’s book).
2013 Space and Place commissioned chapter (scholarly book)
2013 Trans-What, Conference Publication, Berlin. (artist’s book).
2012 London Open Publication, Whitechapel Gallery, London. (catalogue)
2010 Notes I,II & III article on my work by Marie-Anne McQuay for Animate Projects, London (article).
2010 Notes From Here, commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol (ISBN: 978-0956085634) (artist’s book),
2010 Interview with Gary Thomas for Animate Projects Exhibition 2010
2010 Who Wants to Act Now, or Even See Acting Publication (essay on We are the above by Ellen Mara De Wachter for Depo Istanbul.
Proof Magazine article and interview with curator Liz Bruchet (article)
2009 Detox, (Catalogue).
2008 Calvert 22, (Catalogue).
2007 Bloomberg New Contemporaries (Catalogue).
2008 dragged down into lowercase Catalogue (Paul Klee Centre, Switzerland) (publication)
2005 Coniston Water Festival Paper, Grizedale Arts, 2005 (artist’s book)
Film and video works
Tweed, C (2004) All About The Power [Video]. Alma Enterprises, London..
Tweed, C (2006) Lets Start Again [Video]. Galerie Der Stadt, Schwaz.
Tweed, C (2008) Man From Below TV [Video]. Bloomberg New Contemporaries.
Tweed, C (2009-10) Man From Below TV 2 & 3 [Video].
Tweed, C (2010) Notes I, II & III [Video]. Bristol, Spike Island.
Tweed, C (2011) Grain [Video].Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
Tweed, C (2012) Archimeters [Video]. London, Whitechapel Gallery.
Tweed, C (2013) Codec [Video]. Portsmouth, Aspex Gallery.
Tweed, C (2013) The Meadow [Video]. Portsmouth, Aspex Gallery.
Tweed, C (2013) The Tricorn [Video]. Portsmouth, Aspex Gallery.
Tweed, C (2014) The Signal and the rock: proposal for a film [Performance Lecture]. Bristol, Arnolfini & Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing.
Tweed, C (2016) The Signal and the noise [Video]. Derby, Quad.
Tweed, C (2017) _s.o.f [Video]. Kingston, Stanley Picker Gallery.
Tweed, C (2016) Oporavak [Video]. Dundee, NeON Digital Arts Festival & WRO Media Art Biennale, Poland and Rencontres Internationale, HKW Berlin.
Tweed, C (2017) Re-writing the overcode [Video and sound installation]. Kingston, Stanley Picker Gallery
Tweed, C (2019) Implex [Video]. Aesthetica Short Film Festival.
Tweed, C (2020) Notes from the Subsurface [Video]. EarthArt Gallery, Bristol
Tweed, C (2020) Notes On the Subsurface [Performance]. Wills Memorial Building, Bristol & Spike Island Open.
Tweed, C (2021) How Can We Escape [Video]. Video Art, Miden.
Tweed, C (2022) Znovu Navštívit (Re-visit) [Video]. On Art Poland, Film Festival, Warsaw.
Tweed, C [2022] Mutterspace [Video].
Tweed, C [2023] Pit Manifesto [Video]. Fiction Machines IV, Bath Spa University. (Symposium)
Tweed, C [2023] Hallucigenai [Video]. On Art Poland, Film Festival, Poland.
Tweed, C [2024] Umwelt/4470 - Part 1 [Video]. Arte Scienza Film Festival, Goethe Institute, Rome and Braziers International Film Festival (official selection 2024)
REF 2021 Multi-piece Portfolio outputs
· Tweed, C (2014-19) ‘The Signal and the Noise’.
· Tweed, C (2015-19) ‘Re-writing the Machinic Anthropocene’.