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Chris Welsby (b. 1948) Forest Bay (1973) Born in Exeter in 1948, Chris Welsby studied at Chelsea School of Art and The Slade School of Art, and was an early member of the London Filmmakers' Co-operative. His films and film/video installations have been exhibited internationally at major galleries such as the Tate and Hayward galleries (London, UK), the Stedelijkmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) the Musée du Louvre and Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), the Museum of Modern Art (New York,USA), the Carnegie Institute, (Pittsburgh,USA), the Western Front, (Vancouver,Canada) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto,Canada). Welsby's work is characterised by a rigorous and experimental exploration of the relationship between natural systems inherent in the landscape, such as weather patterns and tidal flow, and the systematic methods and apparatus of filmmaking used to represent them. He has been working primarily with digital media since 1993, and is currently developing and exhibiting interactive video installations with collaborators in the fields of computational poetics and interactive audio environments, most recently dance, with the project Heaven's Breath. He lives on a small island in British Columbia and he is Professor of Fine Art Film And Video, at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.