Christopher Steenson CV
Exhibitions / Performances
2018 Culture Night 2018 (Venue TBC), Umbrella Group Performance, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2018 Sonic Arts Research Centre, Catalyst Audio Tracks 1, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2018 St Martin’s Church, Spectres of Place (as part of Framewerk Sleepover), Belfast, Northern Ireland
2018 Framewerk Art Gallery, The Art of Cycling, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2018 Imagine Festival of Politics and Ideas, Talbot St (soundscape contribution to The Public Pulpit by Ben Weir), Belfast, Northern Ireland
2018 The Art Department, Fjord Melt/Cold Hands, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2017 Club Curious, Digital Tropical, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2017 Sonic Arts Research Centre, In the Stairwell, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2017 EastSide Arts Festival, I am Sitting in a Vault (in The Old Ulster Bank Building on the Newtownards Road), Belfast, Northern Ireland
Publications
Framewerk Sleepover, Wired Magazine, 2018 (forthcoming)
Live Report: Framewerk Sleepover, The Quietus, 13 August 2018
I am Sitting in a Vault, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 4, September – October 2017
Other Press
Arts Show Interview about I am Sitting in a Vault, BBC Radio Ulster, 10 August 2017
Memberships
Visual Artists Ireland, Associate Member. Joined 2018.
Umbrella Sound Art Collective. Joined in 2017.
Writing
Painterly Sounds, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 1, January – February 2018 (forthcoming)
Sounding Out, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 3, July – August 2018
(Tree) House Music, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 1, January – February 2018
Bringing Sounds into Use: Thinking of Sounds as Materials and a Sketch of Auditory Affordances, The Open Psychology Journal, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2015
Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Ecological Psychology, School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast (Co-Editor and Contributor)
Education
2016 Queen’s University Belfast, Psychology PhD candidate
Thesis Title: Sounds Like We’re Moving: Using Auditory Information to Guide Human Movement.
2010 Queen’s University Belfast, Psychology BSc
Thesis Title: Communication of Emotion Through Musical Improvisation.
Additional Training
2017 A4 Sounds, Creative Technology for Artists and Makers, 19 November – 10 December, Dublin, Ireland
2017 Visual Artists Ireland, Writing About your Work with Sue Rainsford, 15 November, Dublin, Ireland