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  • Back Soon!

    Please excuse the two-year absence! This website is currently under reconstruction and will be back soon.

  • </2021>

    I don’t have too much to say about this year. It was of course difficult in many ways but there were some moments of relief, especially when I get to see people IRL. Of course the pandemic and everything else in this world is still happening but I really valued those little moments, especially…

  • I Am Sitting In A Room acquired by Government Art Collection

    I’m happy to share that my 2010 video, I Am Sitting In A Room, has been acquired by the Government Art Collection as part of Art X-UK, a permanent collection of works by 45 visual artists from across the UK. In this difficult and unusual year, the Collection invited the networks for nine regions…

  • Controlling Improviz Using Midi via OSC

    In 2020 I did quite a number of workshops in using the Improviz visuals live coding environment. Improviz can be thought of as a fork of Livecodelab, especially as its developer, Guy John, is one the developers of Livecodelab. However, it has some key differences that make it stand out as its own unique…

  • (Algo|Afro) Futures

    I’m happy to launch (Algo|Afro) Futures, a mentoring programme for early career Black artists in the West Midlands who want to explore the creative potential of live coding. Live coding is a performative practice where artists and musicians use code to create live music and live visuals. This is often done at electronic dance…

  • windows.exe has stopped working

    windows.exe has stopped working is about that moment of uncertainty when software begins exhibiting signs of an impending malfunction. The software stutters, glitches, begins acting erratically, sometimes altogether freezing with no indication of when normality will return. When faced with this hopeless situation the illusion of flawless technology is shattered and we’re reminded that…

  • </2020>

    2020 was definitely a hard year, which feels a pretty repetitive and redundant thing to say at this point. I did try to stay creative, and did create things, but sometimes I just felt like staying still and watching the world crumble around me. At times just getting out of bed before 12:00 felt…

  • Submerged

    Edward Colston was an English merchant, philanthropist and politician whose involvement in the slave trade was often overlooked. In June 2020 his statue in Bristol was toppled and thrown into the harbour during Black Lives Matter protests. Through tearing down statutes we don’t rewrite or erase history but instead reveal more about it. It…