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Christopher Howlett has had over ten years experience in the Creative Industries and over five years as an interactive designer. He now works and lives in Brisbane, Australia. He has participated in the... Read more››

Biography

Christopher Howlett has had over ten years experience in the Creative Industries and over five years in the interactive industry. He completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and was awarded...Read more››

Exhibitions

Flashbacks, Balmoral Room, City Hall, Brisbane, Australia, 2009.

When thinking about how to address the complex political, social and aesthetic implications of Christopher Howlett’s exhibitions, I had something of a flashback of my own and was drawn to revisit Andrew Feenberg’s Critical Theory of Technology (1991). As I recalled, this was one of the first books I had read that specifically engaged capitalist, socialist, economic....Continue reading››

Flashbacks, Metro Arts, City Hall, Brisbane, Australia, 2009.

Christopher 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 meaningless, he wants to make us aware of how....Continue reading››

Flashbacks, Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts, No.70, Reviews, pg.83, Mark Pennings, 2009.

In Flashbacks, his recent two-part exhibition at the Brisbane City Hall and Metro Arts, the energetic Christopher Howlett attempted to portray the zeitgeist of our manipulated digital social reality and the ambiguous social identities it engenders. The subtext in this ambitious exercise was an exploration of the impact of this world on art, especially in its current post-avant-garde phase.....Continue reading››

Flashbacks - Bold intersection in time, Courier Mail: ETC, In the Frame, September, Suzanna Clarke, 2009.

Just who was Michael Jackson? A brilliant entertainer, a Peter pan who never grew up or a paedophile? His appearance changed, along with public perceptions. Multiple versions of Jackson live mundane existences in a pink modernist house in artist Christopher Howlett's videos. But the soundtrack gives the vision a completely different meaning....Continue reading››

Frequencies, In progress, 2009.

Frequencies is an interactive installation that uses broadcasted FM radio frequencies, modified iPod FM transmitters, mobile phones, and a wide spectrum of non-linguistic human sounds...Read more››

Christopher Howlett Enterprise: this is not art but design, 2005 - ongoing...

Christopher 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...Read more››

Propositions, In progress, 2008.

Propositions is a new installation that projects a series of formal artist statements stenciled over the Aboriginal Australian map on canvas. The purpose of the new work is to...Read more››

INOUT, Blindside Artist run Space Inc., 2006.

INOUT- A SEMIOTIC “ANALYSIS”: SOUND & TEXT EXERCISES

One of the triggers for the work INOUT was a “Four Corners” documentary on an exclusive Christian fundamentalist sect called the Brethren which was recently televised on the Australian ABC channel. This world-wide sect has come...Read more››

Arc Biennial - Art, design and Craft: Weapons on the Wall, 2005.

Why the title Lingua Franca? The concept of lingua franca is of a shared language-but derived from different languages-and used as a medium for communication between individuals from different heritages or origins. It is also used...Read more››

Weapons on the Wall, Institute of Modern Art, 2005.

Looking good is not enough when it comes to art with a message, writes Rex Butler.

POLTICAL art always suffers from a dilemma: as political, it has an argument to make; as art, it must be complex, ambiguous and open to several different interpretations...Read more››

Seduction is Important1: Christopher Howlett’s Weapons on the Wall, writes Chris Handran. Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. - Bertoldt Brecht2.

The title of Christopher Howlett’s ongoing series of exhibitions comes from the description of World War II propaganda...Read more››

Weapons on the Wall, The Farm Space, 2003.

HAWAIIAN SHIRTS AND SAFARI PANTS: CHRIS HOWLETT COMES OUT OF THE (POLITICAL) CLOSET WARDROBE, writes Grant Stevens.

As we know, trends in fashion are constantly developing and changing. Thanks to postmodern theorists like Fredric Jameson1, we also understand that...Read more››

Hire Me Out, CalArts, Los Angeles, 2000.

The"Hire Me Out" project took place in Los Angeles at the California Institute of the Arts from 1999 till the end of 2000. It was a time based conceptual art performance project...Read more››

Curriculum Vitae

2000 Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, United States of America. 1996 Bachelor of Visual Arts, (First Class Honors), QUT, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. 1995 Analogue Editing and Film Theory, Australian Film School, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. 1991 Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane, QLD, Australia...Read more››

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Weapons on the Wall

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