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  • Freedom in Creativity

    On Thursday 16th September I’ll be giving a talk at Birmingham Linux User Group about the issues affecting artists who adopt open source and free culture into their practice. I have done a talk about open source and art once before at the LUG, which was well received despite the audience being mostly techies…

  • Vacuum Packed Children

    The first issue of Dirty Bristow is out now and features a part-glitch illustration by me. For the theme of this issue, Birth, I was asked to illustrate an article by up-and-coming funny man Harry Vale that goes on to detail his experience of doing stand-up comedy for the first time: It’s a torrid…

  • fareWELL fizzPOP

    Somewhere in late December 2008 I was frustrated with the apparent lack of a local hacking scene. Luckily a few other people felt the same and in January 2009 fizzPOP was formed. I once had all the time and energy in the world to pump into helping to organise events such as the fizzPOP…

  • I Am Sitting In A Room at GLI.TC/H

    I Am Sitting In A Room is being screened at GLI.TC/H in Chicago from the end of September. Exact times and dates to be confirmed. GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists,…

  • Birmingham Zine Festival

    For the last few months I’ve been lending a helping hand to organising of the very first Birmingham Zine Festival! The main events of the festival kick off on September 10th with the Film Night at The Edge and continue until September 12th with events such as zine printing workshop and a picnic in…

  • Updated

    August was a particularly quiet month whilst I sorted out many things, including redesigning my website. There are still a few pages to reformat, but if you notice anything wrong please let me know. Lots of news coming soon!

  • Stenchival 2010

    Stenchival 2010 took place in Leicester on the 7th and 8th August. The festival was held at the Fabrika Independent Arts Centre in the heart of Leicester. The first day saw us all at a workshop where we made our very own Atari Punk Console. At a past fizzPOP event Jimmie Rodgers brought a…

  • Spinning Desktop

    The results of trying to take a screenshot using Shutter whilst spinning the desktop. See more on flickr.

  • Scripted Bends

    Recently there’s been a trend amongst glitch artists to do more video glitches. I’ve been pretty quiet on that front whilst I work on my techniques. Here’s the first results of my experiments using Chris Cunningham‘s short film Rubber Johnny as a test subject Just from these tests I can see the opportunities that…

  • Create your own glitch typeface

    Making Dataface was really quite an exciting journey. What started off as an attempt to make a typeface inspired by glitch art turned out to be a story of collaboration, exploration and hours of research. Here, I will go through my process. As you may have seen from my previous experiments in vector databending…