Charleshas
been creating film/video and media works since relocating
from Atlanta ten years ago; first to Prague, then Venice
and London.
Born a third-generation circus performer,
Kriel conducted his PhD research in media art from Central
Saint Martins , and has received awards/ grants/
commissions from Prix Ars Electronica , ICA , MOMA-Oxford , London
Institute , Royal Festival Hall , British
Council , London Arts and Dance
on Screen . As a media artist, he has exhibited
in the gallery of Tomato Design , at the 1999
Venice Biennale , and throughout the Middle East,
Europe, Russia, the US and Australasia. As a composer, he
has composed by commission an opera and several song cycles,
and his work is released by ÖRF (Austria)
and Electroshock (Moscow). As a filmmaker,
writer and photographer, he is regularly commissioned by BBC
Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra and has
also been commissioned by MTV , ITV and Channel
4 .
Charles is also broadly regarded as one of the world's leading
VJs, and has been resident VJ for BBC Radio 1 , BBC
1Xtra and Pete Tong's Essential Selection .
He has been cited by The Times as "club
culture's first superstar VJ," and regularly performs in
Ibiza, Ayia Napa, and across Europe and SE Asia. Since Spring
2000, he has performed for nearly 1.5 million clubbers internationally.
Also a leading New Media theorist and artist, synthesising
the works of McLuhan, Lacan and Freud as they apply to digital
media, he has delivered papers and talks at University
of Westminster , Institute of Education , London
Institute , Oxford Brookes , and
a slew of conferences. Charles will guest edit an upcoming
issue of one of the US's leading new media journals, Perforations ,
on the subject of the mediation of personality.
