!Metro Arts and Balmoral Room, Brisbane Australia 2009.
Machinima, The Block, QUT, Creative Industries, Brisbane, Australia 2010
Machinima in its present form is probably best defined as "Filmmaking using Video Game Technology". It's a term often used by Paul Marino, the Director of the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences, and I feel it encapsulates the current state of Machinima quite well. Most works people will stumble upon will use settings within existing games to tell a story...Continue»
The 4th edition of VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival took place in Varna between August 10th and August 18th, 2010 accompanying AUGUST IN ART International Biennial of Visual Arts. During the festival 9-day duration, according to the VIDEOHOLICA 2010 motto 'KEEP THE ILLUSION ALIVE', various video selections and projectsas...
"Chris Howlett: In the not-too-distant future" by José Da Silva - At the end of the first decade of the twenty–first century, contemporary culture appears increasingly seduced and absorbed by apocalyptic reveries. Scientists are racing to cryo-preserve genetic material from animals and plant matter in underground bunkers, while filmmakers use the spectacle of...
In this instalment of Flashbacks, Chris Howlett continues to examine the way in which meaning is derived from a multiplicity of places, spaces and texts. By making apparent how these complex discursive practices complicate what is meaningful and...
When thinking about how to address the complex political, social and aesthetic implications of Chris Howlett's exhibitions, I had something of a flashback of my own and was drawn to revisit Andrew Feenberg's.... 
Frequencies is a sound installation that samples hundreds of non-linguistic human soundbytes from television and films soundtracks, redits them into their own unique soundtracks and then re-broadcasts them through popular radio stations through the use of MOD(ified) iPod FM transmitters...
chris Howlett Enterprise was a process driven work of conceptual art that turned the artist’s art practice into a design business through the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (Neis) which is a Centrelink... 
A Semiotic “Analysis”: sound & text exercies - one of the triggers for the work INOUT was a “Four Corners” documentary on an exclusive Christian fundamentalist sect called the Brethren... 
In 2005 Weapons on the Wall was concentrated into a floor piece with a selected arrangement of works neatly shaped into a rectangle onto the floor. This is an excerpt from the Curatorial Essay published in Arc - Art, Design & Craft Biennial in 2005... 
As we know, trends in fashion are constantly developing and changing. Thanks to postmodern theorists like Fredric Jameson
The Hire Me Out project which took place in Los Angeles was a time based project that ran from 1999 till the end of 2000. It was a conceptual-performance based project that... 
