Sam Meech

Born in 1981 in Huddersfield, UK, Sam Meech is a digital artist with an analog focus, whose practice encompasses interactive installation, projection, and machine tinkering. He is interested in hybrid processes combining digital and analog in his creation and performance, through playful works that play on texture, pattern, recursion, and translation. He practices pixel art, has machine-knitted stop-motion animations of horses, generated poetry from old video titles, and cast miniature trains in concrete to create apocalyptic projection mapping. In his recent practice, he explores optical video feedback in interactive digital installations—an approach described in his Master of Fine Arts thesis entitled “Video in the Abyss: In the context of the digital, is video feedback still useful as an approach to making art.” Two resulting works, Chroma Culture and Portals, have been widely shown in the UK and were selected for the 2019 Lumen Prize for Art and Technology. Chroma Culture also won the ALIFE Inspired Art Award at the 2020 ALIFE Festival. Both works have been adapted and deconstructed for this exhibition.He enjoys collaborating with the public to develop projects that allow people to engage with technology and creative processes. He has created works for Mutek, the NFB, the Quartier des Spectacles, and the Maison de la Culture Maisonneuve, as well as for numerous galleries, museums, and public institutions in the United Kingdom. Now based in Montreal, he teaches the Intermedia course at Concordia University.