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From 27th April – 3rd May I’ll be in Toronto for the 10th Libre Graphics Meeting. Details of what I’ll be doing will follow shortly. Libre Graphics Meeting Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is the annual gathering of users and developpers of Free and Open Source software for graphics, design, and visual art. This unique…
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From March 19th-21st myself and Sam Wray will be curating μChip 3 at Vivid Projects as part of BBC’s Digital Week. µChip comes to Birmingham for a 3-day event celebrating Chiptune music, digital art, hacking, modified hardware and unconventional approaches to making music and visual art. µChip 3 will feature hands-on hacking workshops and…
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From January 23rd-25th 2015 I took part in the Global Game Jam. Having never made a game before I was a bit nervous about taking part and wondered what skills I could contribute. With the theme “What do we do now?” I worked with teammates Oliver Clews, Rowan Piancastelli, Liam Biddle, Jonny Graney and…
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After having its UK debut at The Photographer’s Gallery in early February, Ways of Something episodes 1-3 will be having their West Midlands premier at Vivid Projects on 12th March. Ways of Something is a contemporary remake of John Berger’s classic BBC documentary, ‘Ways of Seeing’ (1972). The project consists of one-minute videos by…
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Although it has been shown at many galleries and festivals alongside episodes one and three, episode two of Ways of Something is now finally available to view online. The project, curated by Lorna Mills, seems lots of artists remake John Berger’s Ways of Seeing minute by minute. I’m at minute nine, which you can…
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On various dates in March and April 2015 I’ll be running a Pure Data Patch Circle as part of Birmingham Open Media’s Creative Code series. A new ‘Patching Circle’ on creative code designed and run by artists, for artists. A Patching Circle is an informal gathering of anyone who is interested in patching languages…
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After a series of delays the long-awaited new issue of Libre Graphics magazine is out. If you happened to be at FOSDEM 2015 you may have seen the editorial team launch the issue. It features an article by me about kinetic typography and can be downloaded in pdf form for free or purchased and…
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On 7th February I’ll be back in Brussels for a performance at Public Domain Day The Public Domain Day is celebrating works of art which enter into the public domain because their copyrights have expired. These works can be freely enjoyed, used, changed, republished by everybody. Worldwide, this The Public Domain Day is celebrated…
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On 19th February I’ll be in Shrewsbury to give a talk at Shropgeek. With re:LOADED – the developer unconference, just around the corner we’re changing the focus of our first Rebellion of 2015 away from specific web design and development topics and spending a little more time on business and creative disciplines instead. We’ve…
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From 26th January till 30th April I’m going to be taking part in the online sections of CopyrightX. CopyrightX is a twelve-week networked course, offered from January to May each year under the auspices of Harvard Law School, the HarvardX distance-learning initiative, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The course explores the…