• Multimedia Programming with Pure Data

    A new book by Bryan Chung, Multimedia Programming with Pure Data was recently published by Packt Publishing. Despite it being a big part of Pure Data Extended, GEM – and making visuals in PD – doesn’t get as much attention as audio processing. Whereas sound-makers have resources such as Loadbang and excellent tutorials from…

  • fizzPOP’s New Home

    Those of you who have been following my blog since around 2009 will remember that myself and Nikki Pugh once ran a hackerspace in Birmingham called fizzPOP. Actually, calling it a hackerspace was a bit of a stretch as we never had our own permanent, access-any-hour space and always relied on organisations such as…

  • State of Encounter – 25th July

    On Thursday 25th July (tonight) a video piece that I made for Unity Collective will be shown at their State of Encounter performance from 7pm at The Crescent Theatre I’ll update this post with the video once the performance has happened, but in the meantime here’s some screen captures: Finished video below:

  • BYOB Boiler Room – 22nd July

    On Monday 22nd July I’ll be off to London to take part in a rather special edition of Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB), which sees the usual barrage of artists project against a backdrop of music from Mark Ronson and others! This edition of BYOB will feature 28 visual artists (myself included) and will…

  • Kinglux X hellocatfood

    Recently Tony Hill and I have collaborated on a few videos, combining glitch art aesthetics and 3D fractals. Kinglux X Hellocatfood ‘Temptations’ The electronic landscapes provide temptation and distraction of every possible combination in ways alien and inhuman. Kinglux X Hellocatfood ‘Escape Velocity An exploration between the angel and technology, an interplay between humanity,…

  • Dark, Eerie and Manic

    The first output of my circuit bending the VEC1070 comes in the form of this collaboration – me on visuals – with Alex Juno (of Elmo Sexwhistle) For the input I rendered a translucent green triangle onto the screen in Pure Data. The rest is just adjustments in the contrast (in Pure Data and…

  • Circuit bending a Video Tech VEC1070 Video Processor

    I had the pleasure of meeting up with Tony Hill recently, where I acquired a copy of his new glitch zine, Junk DNA of the Digital Mind. He was kind enough to divulge that he used some of the devices by Video Tech Designs to create content. Being relatively cheap (due to their limited…

  • Elmo Sexwhistle – Genderfuck!

    I provided a few glitch/feedback clips for Elmo Sexwhistle‘s video for Genderfuck! Check it out! oh, and their album is pretty awesome too (y)

  • Arctic Sunrise/bITjAM/hellocatfood at Pecha Kucha Coventry Volume 14

    Mindriot Productions just uploaded a clip of myself, Arctic Sunrise and bITjAM performing at Pecha Kucha Coventry Volume 14: I had no idea that I was so animated when performing :-/