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  • Gif Pack #1

    Between projects I often make little animations. Sometimes they’re made as a result of learning new software and sometimes I make them to test out an idea or technique. I’ve decided that I’ll start a regular thing on this here blog – hopefully monthly – where I share some of those gifs and other…

  • 10 years since GLI.TC/H

    Exactly 10 years ago the first GLI.TC/H was starting in Chicago, IL. Attending that festival was turning point in my practice and, the more a reflect on it, an important part of my personal life. Here I want to reflect on that a bit. GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media…

  • Typewriter Text Revisited Revisited

    This ongoing adventure to create a typewriter text effect has had a lot of twists and turns over the years. Back in 2011 I used Pure Data to achieve this effect. Fast forward to 2019 and I experimented with Kdenlive and Natron before settling on Animation Nodes. In April 2020 update on this I…

  • Copy Paste at Ars Electronica 9th – 13th September 2020

    Copy Paste is back and will be taking part in Ars Electronica from 9th – 13th September! This year Ars Electronica’s online programme features exhibitions and events from 120 locations globally and Piksel in Bergen, the original host of the Copy Paste exhibition back in May, is one of them. The online section of…

  • Blender Animation Workshop – July 25th

    On Saturday July 25th I’ll be delivering an online a Blender workshop for Access Space! The three-hour workshop (13:00 – 16:00) will go through a few basics of using Blender but will mainly focus on making abstract glitchy looping gifs, like the ones that I made for Improviz. Tickets are £15 and can be…

  • I Am Sitting in a Room Revisited

    My remake of the Alvin Lucier artwork I Am Sitting in a Room was released 10 years ago today. To mark this occasion I want to revisit how I made it and troubles I had remaking it for 2019. In November 2019 I Am Sitting in a Room was exhibited at Gamerz Festival in…

  • OCR to Text to Speech

    For the sixth video in the Design Yourself series the group worked with artist Erica Scourti. For the activity the participants used optical character recognition software (OCR) to generate poetry from their own handwriting and writing (leaflets, signage) found throughout the Barbican building. The next stage in the workshop was going to be to…

  • Copy Paste photos

    Photos of the Copy Paste exhibition currently taking place at Piksel in Bergen, Norway, and online in the Piksel Cyber Salon Full list of exhibiting artists inculde Carol Breen, Constant, LoVid, Lorna Mills, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez + Julien Deswaef, Duncan Poulton, Eric Schrijver, Peter Sunde. Photos taken by Maite Cajaraville. More photos can be seen…

  • Copy Paste opening

    Copy Paste opened at Piksel in Bergen on the evening of Friday 22nd May. Sadly myself and all of the exhibiting artists were unable to be there but fortunately they live streamed the whole thing. After all of the uncertainty about whether Copy Paste would go ahead I’m really happy that situation in Bergen…

  • Copy Paste – 22nd May – 21st June 2020

    I’m happy to announce that I am curating the exhibition Copy Paste, taking place at Piksel in Norway from 22nd May – 21st June. If you are an artist, then you have no doubt copied the work of others. This copying can range from using pages from a magazine in collage, adopting the style…