Education
1993-94 Chelsea College of Art, Foundation Fine Art
1994-97 Oxford Brookes University, BA Hons Fine Art
1997-98 Oxford Brookes University, MA Electronic Media
2006 – 08 Goldsmiths College, MFA Art Practice
2011 – 2018 Kingston University, PHD Art Practice (AHRC Studentship)
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Notes from the subsurface, EarthArt Gallery, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol
2017 Soon we will become output, Stanley Picker Gallery project studio, London
2013 I am Algorithm, Aspex, Portsmouth
2013 I am Algorithm, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
2011 Notes I,II & III, Alma Enterprises, London
2010 Notes I,II & III, Spike Island, Bristol
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
2019
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Film Festival, Pompidou Centre, Louvre, Forum des images and Le Carreau du Temple (Oporovak selected)
Infinite Multiple Commission, Infinite Multiple, London.
Black Box special screenings of The signal and the noise, my Wellcome Trust funded film, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Newcastle.
2018
Visions in the nunnery (showing new video work), Bow Arts, London
TBCTV, Somerset House, London
Screenworks Showcase Special Issue, Cube, Bristol
Altered States: Media artists moving image, Crypt gallery, London.
Kew gardens Film Festival, Queens Museum, NYC.
2017
VAEFF, Tribeca Film Centre, NYC
Silent Signal, Daejeon Artist House, South Korea
WRO Media Art Biennale, WRO Center, Poland (selected artist)
The Signal and the noise featured in, Labocine 8, http://labocine.com/issue/8
NYC Independent Film Festival, New York
35 & Counting, Aspex, Portsmouth
Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene (symposium), Bath Spa University, Presented a new paper and screened a new film
2016
NeON Digital Arts Festival, Dundee (showed new film Oporavak)
Selected 6 (touring video programme curated by Videoclub), touring to Whitechapel Gallery, Watershed, Plymouth Arts Centre, CCA Glasgow and 6 other UK venues)
Both Sides Now 3: Screenings in East Asia (touring venues across East Asia: curated by videoclub)
Silent Signal showing a newly commissioned film – UK wide touring show for
Wellcome Trust Large Arts Commission curated by Animate Projects launching at Quad, Derby and touring to Vivid Projects, Birmingham; Lifespace, Dundee; Central St Martin’s, London and others
Oberhausen Film Festival (special screening of The Signal and the Noise and presentation)
ISF Film Festival, New York (screening of The Signal and the Noise)
2015
The Signal and the rock, Performance Lecture, Screening and Artist’s Talk, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Grain, screening in a mobile cinema on the Isle of Grain
BOS: Double Exposure, Berlin
Tramway Artist’s Moving Image Festival, 2015 (http://www.tramway.org/events/pages/event- details.aspx?EventId=646d6294-8e62-4434-8687-a5060107fb5d)
Film Open (selected by Steven Cairns ICA) touring to: ICA, London; Spike Island, Bristol; Transmission, Glasgow; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; Castlefield, Manchester
Limbo Associates show selected by Adam Chodzko, Margate
Artist films 2015, Karst, Plymouth
Stigmart – Videofocus – ‘Charlie Tweed – Archimeters’
We are publication – film screening, ICA, London
2014
‘Art in the city talks: Charlie Tweed’, Arnolfini, Bristol (screening and talk)
We are publication, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award, Silent Signal (curated by Animate Projects) Behind the scenes, Spike Island, Charlie Tweed and Kit Poulson
We have never been modern, Oklahoma, USA
2013
‘i am algorithm’ – Axpex, Portsmouth, Solo Show (Touring)
‘i am algorithm’ – New Publication
‘i am algorithm’, Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter
News from the sun, (group show), Phoenix, Exeter
SUB 12, Substation, Melbourne
Space and Place Publication, Commissioned Chapter.
Geologies of value and vestige Symposium, Kingston University, presented new paper and film
Trans Symposium, Berlin, Commissioned to present a new paper
2012
The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Experimentica, Chapter, Cardiff
Grain – newly commissioned performance, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Cultivation Field, The Keep, Reading
Space and Place Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford – Commissioned paper
2011
Emergency 5, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (Winner)
Mainstram 2.1 , Angus Hughes, London
Spike Island Extra Curricular (Hosted by Charlie Tweed)
Notes 1 – 3 (solo show), Alma Enterprises, London
Videoholica 2011, Varna, Bulgaria
They Came from Earth, Hackney Wicked Festival (curated by Pil and Galia Kollectiv)
The Box Season 5, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales (August-November)
Sheffield Fringe at the Sheffield Documentary Festival
New Methods of Diversification and Sustainability, Grizedale Arts, Cumbria (May/June 2011)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Archive Film, ICA, London
2010
Notes 1 – 3 (solo show), Spike Island, Bristol (October 2010)
Notes 1 – 3 (solo show), Animate Projects (October 2010)
Grizedale Arts, Cumbria Residency 2010
Who Wants to Act Now, or Even See Acting, DEPO, Istanbul (with essay by Ellen Mara De Wachter)
Multichannel: Variable economies, Artsway, Sway, UK
MAB Film Exercise, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
MODIFICATIONS 2010, Aarhus Centre for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, Denmark
Incounter Berlin, HBC, Berlin
Detox, Concrete Allotment Projects, 16 Hoxton Square, London
2009
Time is a sausage, Domobaal, London, UK
So much more, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic
ECO 09, Phoneix Gallery, Exeter, UK (winner)
Proof Magazine, Interview and DVD
‘Started’, Galerie Klatovy / Klenová – Czech Republic
Modern Times, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
Olympic Visions, Nunnery, London
See you at home – 3, 145 Grove Lane, London
Notes from the Underground, James Taylor Gallery, London
Screening, Primo Alonso Gallery, London
2008
100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art, TFL Platform for Art, A Foundation, Rochelle School, London (October 2008) Newly commissioned poster that was also positioned at various London Underground stations
The Krautcho Club/In and out of place, (Invited by Anna-Catharina Gebbers & 176/Zabludowicz Collection London), FORGOTTEN BAR PROJECT, Berlin and PROJECT SPACE 176, London (August – December 2008)
Earth, Wind and Fire, Otro Espacio, Valencia, Spain
Start Point 2008 (European Academies Award), Galerie Klatovy / Klenová, Czech Republic (Winner of the Galerie Klatovy / Klenová Prize
Annual Members Exhibition (Selected by Michael Bracewell and Linder), Studio Voltaire, London
‘dragged down into lowercase’, Sommerakademie, Paul Klee Centre, Bern, Switzerland (Residency and Exhibition)
Goldsmiths MFA 2008, Laurie Grove Baths, London
Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, Kent
‘April is the cruelest month’, Atelier Frankfurt Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Calypso, Sala Rekalde Gallery, Bilbao
‘Multichannel’, Millais Gallery, Southampton, UK
Supermarket 08, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007, Touring to Walsall (New Art Gallery Walsall), London (Rochelle School) and Manchester (Cornerhouse)
AGORA, PACT, Essen, Germany (exhibition and residency)
Artvehicle Magazine, December 2007
‘Two Hopes’, Art Caucasus, Georgia
‘Kaleidoscope’, Livebox Gallery, Chicago, USA
‘One must be so careful these days’, Alma Enterprises, London
‘We like it alot’, Nettie Horn Gallery, London (performance)
‘Multichannel’, Artsway, New Forest, UK
Collision Festival, Area 10, London (performance)
Frogstock Festival, Norfolk, UK (performance)
‘Around the Coyote’, Fall Arts Festival, Chicago, USA
Deviant Art Festival, Trollhättan, Sweden (performance)
Hi/Lo Film Festival, San Francisco
Memphis Indie Festival, Memphis, USA
2006
Peacecamp, (performance) Brick Lane Gallery, London
Artsway Open 06, New Forest, UK
Santa Fe Film Festival, NM, USA
See You at Home 2 (performance), Grove Lane, London
Rooftop Films, NY, USA
Rag and Bone – 3 Colts Gallery, London
Commissions East – Shortlisted for Art U Need
Conjunction 06, AIRspace, Stoke On Trent, UK
Hi/Lo Film Festival, San Francisco, USA
Artist’s Editions, Galerie Der Stadt, Schwaz, Austria
Project 2, Alma Enterprises Gallery, London
2005
Santa Fe Film Festival, NM, USA
Neue Freunde Artist’s Talk, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Austria
Neue Freunde, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Austria (Group show with: Gelitin, Ulla von Brandenburg, Anna Jermolaewa, Markus Schinwald, Andreas Slominski, Nicoletta Stalder)
Coniston Water Festival, Grizedale Arts, UK
‘Manzill World’ – Underbelly, Edinburgh, August 2005 – performance lecture
‘Manzill World’ – Etcetera Theatre, London – performance lecture
‘Nabakov’ – Red Lion Theatre, London
2004 and before
‘Open Market’ – Brixton Village Market, London
‘Arty Magazine’ – commissioned drawing
291 Gallery, London (performance)
‘Project 1’ – Alma Enterprises Gallery, London
‘Jan Manzill, Hat On Wall Gallery, London – multimedia lecture and exhibition
‘Metamorphose’, Centre d’art Contemporain, Normandy, France
‘When You Least Expect It’ – Hat on Wall Gallery, London and Bareiss Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
‘London Zero Zero’ at Gasworks Gallery, London, and Bareiss Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
Publications
Notes I,II & III article by Marie-Anne Mcquay for Animate Projects, London, 2010
Notes I,II & III Publication, produced by Spike Islnad, Bristol, 2010
Interview with Gary Thomas for Animate Projects Exhibition 2010
Who Wants to Act Now, or Even See Acting Publication (essay on We are the above by Ellen Mara De Wachter) (Depo Istanbul), 2010
Proof Magazine article and interview with curator Liz Bruchet, 2009
Detox 2010, Catalogue
Calvert 22, Catalogue, 2008
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Catalogue, 2007
dragged down into lowercase Catalogue (Paul Klee Centre, Switzerland)
Coniston Water Festival Paper, Grizedale Arts, 2005
Santa Fe Film Festival Catalogue (2005 and 2006)
Arty Magazine, 2002
‘Metamorphose’ Catalogue, 2001
Artist Talks:
Charlie Tweed, University of West of England (talk and tutorials) (BA Fine Art), 2018
Charlie Tweed, University of South Wales (BA Photo Art), 2017
Charlie Tweed: Silent Signal, Lifespace, Dundee, 2016
Charlie Tweed, Art in the City Talks, Arnolfini, 2014
Charlie Tweed and Tony David Sampson, Aspex, Portsmouth (talk on my solo show) 2013
Charlie Tweed artist talk and performance, Exeter Phoenix Gallery, 2013
Charlie Tweed, Plymouth University, Fine Art, 2013
Talk, Tutorials and group crits for Degree students in Fine Art at UWE, 2011
Charlie Tweed – Known Unknowns, Spike Island, Bristol 2011, Associates reading group 2011
Curator and organiser of talks, performances and events at Alma Enterprises, 2004 – 2011 New Methods of Diversification and Sustainability, Grizedale Arts (2011)
Conferences:
2017 SIGNAL EFFECTS I: Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene, Bath Spa University, Bath (curator and organiser)
2016 Silent Signal Conference, University of Dundee, presented paper
2016 Warm Bodies, Cold Machines, Dusseldorf, presented film
2016 STRATA Conference, Aberystwyth University, presented paper
2013 – Geologies of Value and Vestige Conference, Kingston University, I organised this
conference, delivered a new paper and curated a set of films in the Stanley Picker
Gallery
2013 – Transwhat Symposium, Supermarket, Berlin – I presented a new paper titled
‘Rewriting the overcode’ at this conference.
2012 – Space and Place – I presented a new paper titled ‘Escape from the electronic
super-panopticon’ at Mansfield College, Oxford which was then selected for publication.
Residencies, Commissions and Awards
Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award (2014-16) – working with Animate Projects I received a Large Arts Award for a film collaboration with scientist Dr Darren Logan at the Sanger Institute and I am making a new film ‘The Signal and the noise’
AHRC PHD Studentship (2011) – Kingston University
Emergency 5 Aspex Gallery Winner 2011
Grizedale Arts 2010/2011 residency, 2010/2011
Start Point 2008 – Winner of the Prize of the Galerie Klatovy / Klenová Residency (2009), Galerie Klatovy / Klenová (Czech Republic)
ECO 09, Overall Winner (2009)
Sommerakademie Residency, Paul Klee Centre, Bern, Switzerland
Whitstable Biennale (2008) New Performance Commission
Deviant Art Festival, Trollhättan, Sweden (2008)
AGORA Residency, PACT, Essen, Germany
Grizedale Arts Residency Programme, Cumbria, UK (2005 and 2011)