CHRIS ERNST

Chris Ernst is a media artist residing in the northeastern part of the United States. Aside from the occasional installation and various un-named, indescribable happenings, he primarily makes films and videos. This work often considers notions of spatial representation in cinema through such diverse points of reference as physical location, emotional perception, structural abstraction and memory mapping. Chris has shown his work internationally at festivals and confluences, and is currently an MFA candidate and instructor at the University at Buffalo Department of Media Study.

SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
ATLAS – Video
• 3rd Annual Resolutions Festival, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, January 12-25, 2007

INSIDE – 16mm Film/Video
• OMSK at Collision Festival, Area 10 Project Space, London, September 21-23, 2006

FORK – 16mm Film/Video
• Silent/Sound Screening, Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center: Outdoor projection with live improvised music, Buffalo, NY, September 29, 2006

LEXEME – 16mm Film/Video
• Obsidian Frames as part of Gender Across Borders II: Research Subjects, Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center (International conference on gender sponsored by SUNY at Buffalo), Buffalo, NY, April 22, 2006

THE ABSTRACT INDEX – Multimedia Installation
• Now in Circulation: Site Specific Art at Mead, Buffalo, NY, April 19-22, 2006

HOLIDAY – 16mm Film/Video, and ATLAS – Video
• Interval 2, Cine Lumiere-Institute Francais, (International conference bringing together filmmakers, watchers and theorists in response to Gilles Deleuze’s film philosophy), London, March 18, 2006

WHEN I WAKE UP, I ROLL OVER – 16mm Film/Video
• Love & Sex: The Peepshow, Lenox Hotel, February 25, 2006

PLACES I HAVE NEVER BEEN – 16mm Film/Video
• Flicker NYC, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY, February 26, 2005

PLACES I HAVE NEVER BEEN – 16mm Film/Video
• 9th Annual International Not Still Art Festival, Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY, October 2, 2004

PLACES I HAVE NEVER BEEN – 16mm Film/Video
• Friends & Co-conspirators, Ocularis at Galapagos Art and Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY, August 21, 2004

SELECT WORKS
• Genealogy Project (2006) – 16mm/Video, B&W, sound, 10min
• Fork (2006) – 16mm/Video, color, sound, 4min
• i am sorry. i cannot get to sleep. because I am homesick. (2006) – 16mm/Video, color, sound, 2min
• LEXEME (2005) – 16mm/Video, color, sound, 9min
• Atlas (2005) – DV, color, sound, 3min
• Holiday (2005) – 16mm/DV, color, sound, 14min
• Paracosm (2004) – 16mm/DV, color, sound, 3min
• Places I Have Never Been (2003) – 16mm/DV, color, sound, 4min
• Album (2001 - 2003) – 16mm/DV, color, sound, 26min (Nine-Film Anthology)
• The Bones of Her Hands (2001) – 16mm/DV, B&W, sound, 9min
• Inside (1999) – 16mm, B&W, sound, 3min

AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS
• Appointed as Graduate Representative to SUNY at Buffalo Department of Media Study Chair Search Committee, Fall 2006
• President, SUNY at Buffalo Department of Media Study Graduate Club, September 2006 – current
• College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Fellowship – SUNY at Buffalo AY 2006-2007
• College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Fellowship – SUNY at Buffalo AY 2005-2006
• 2006 Graduate Student Employee’s Union Professional Development Grant
• 2001 Hampshire College Film, Photography and Video Alumni Internship

COURSEWORK, TEACHING, WORKSHOPS
• Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center, Instructor (2006 – current), Lighting for Film and Video, Intro to 16mm Production, 16mm Editing and Projection

• SUNY at Buffalo Department of Media Study, Teaching Assistant: Instructor of Record (2005 – current), Basic Filmmaking

• Hampshire College, Instructor (2003 - 2005), Film Production Workshop, Workshop in Lighting for Film and Video, Pro Tools Workshop, Final Cut Pro Workshop

• Hampshire College, Teaching Assistant (2000 - 2001), Film/Video I, The Nature and Practice of Musical Improvisation

SELECT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, PRODUCTION CREDITS
• First Assistant Camera: LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE, 16mm/DV, 16min, color, sound. Director, Steven Eastwood, 2006

• Editor: PICTURING RUBY: SPEAKING WITH ALONGSIDE AND AGAINST, DV, 20min, color, sound. Director, Sarah Elder, 2005

• Assistant Editor: UNA MUERTE DULCE (Video for performance collaboration with Danza Voluminosa: Havana, Cuba), DV 4min, color, sound. Director, Jacqueline Hayden. 2005

• Assistant Editor: HARRIMAN: 1899 EXPEDITION RETRACED, 16mm/Beta SP, 120min, color, sound. Director, Lawrence Hott, Florentine Films 2001

• Assistant Editor: IMAGINING ROBERT, Beta SP, 60min, color, sound. Director, Lawrence Hott, Florentine Films 2001

• Director of Photography: APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION TO LIVE, 16mm, 20min, color, sound. Director, Molly Prickitt, 2001

• Expanded Cinema Retrospective: Bennington College, VT (Installation of expanded cinema, including Anthony McCall's LINE DESCRIBING A CONE (1973), Bill Brand’s PONG PING PONG (1971), and other work), 2000

EDUCATION
SUNY at Buffalo, Media Study (2005 – current) MFA Candidate
Hampshire College, Film & Music (1998 – 2000) BA