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CHRIS GEORGE


Visual Artist & Systems Researcher

45 years navigating Britain’s institutional systems.


Now transforming that research into participatory installation.

About This Practice

I investigate how invisible systems—bureaucratic, technological, archival—encode power into everyday existence. My practice draws on 45 years inside government, digital infrastructure, and industrial manufacturing to create installations that make these systems visible, tangible, confrontable.

My current work explores three interconnected investigations: semantic encryption as cultural memory (Quantum Memory), film noir aesthetics as bureaucratic resistance (Transcription Error), and surveillance as consciousness inquiry (Rite of Passage).

Together, these projects form a trilogy investigating how institutional systems attempt to capture, categorize, and control human complexity—and how humans remain irreducible “transcription errors” that mutate, contradict, and resist such capture.

Shipwreck remains on Kenfig Sands beach with sand dunes county borough of Bridgend Wales

Current Project: Quantum Memory and the Unveiling of Being (2026-2027)

A touring multimedia installation investigating Welsh industrial transformation through semantic encryption and ritual interface. Visitors interact with physical objects—coal, slate, steel, silicon—that trigger the progressive decryption of contemporary community portraits encoded using Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time as cipher.

The installation proves through dual timestamps that “past” and “present” exist simultaneously in reality’s information structure.

Projects in Development

Derelict coal terminal gantry on the Thames foreshore near Woolwich during twilight.

Transcription Error (2027-2028)

A solo exhibition transforming Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff into an investigation of bureaucratic identity construction. Using film noir aesthetics as analytical framework, the work reveals how administrative systems treat human complexity as “transcription error.

Empty road with geometric metal fencing and surveillance lighting, South Wales industrial estate

Rite of Passage (2027-2032)

A two-part immersive installation exploring the gap between surveillance metrics and consciousness. Visitors witness their own face morphing through an entire lifetime—infant to elder, birth to death—recognizing what remains unmeasurable.

Infrastructure & Industrial Research

Ongoing photographic investigation of British infrastructure, industrial decay, and material systems. This documentary practice informs the conceptual frameworks and visual language of my installation work

Loading Structure, Thames Estuary
Post-industrial remnants

Derelict coal terminal gantry on the Thames foreshore near Woolwich during twilight.

Derelict Thames Pier
Infrastructure & temporal compression

Shipwreck remains on Kenfig Sands beach with sand dunes county borough of Bridgend Wales

Industrial Remnants, Welsh Coast
Material impermanence