Kriel creates his mixes with The Hippotizer from Green Hippo, The Entrancer from Korg, and UC-33 and UC-16 controllers from Evolution

Charles has 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.