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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 hacker_space_ was a bit of a stretch as we never had our own permanent, access-any-hour space and always relied on organisations such as VIVID, Birmingham Friends of the Earth and Friction Arts for space to hold our fortnightly meetings (thanks!).

Fast-forward to 2012/2013 and a new group of brave people have taken over the running of fizzPOP and, in July 2013, acquired an actual space!

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Photo by Tom Hodson

fizzPOP’s new home

fizzPOP’s new home

The new residence is located at 28 Floodgate Street in Digbeth. As you can see from the photos they’re still busy cleaning up and moving everything in, which they always need help with. If you can help with anything just contact them on the mailing list to arrange everything.

Membership looks set to be £25 a month, which seems more than reasonable for access to a massive toolshed and great company. I’ll be signing up for sure!

Congratulations to all involved for making this a reality!


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

Click for tickets
Click for tickets

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:

State of Encounter

State of Encounter


BYOB Boiler Room - 22nd July

Author's note — 04.09.2026

There used to be video documentation on youtube but as you can see in the broken embed below it has been deleted. The only video documentation that exists now is this Mark Ronson’s set, Giggs’ set and this short promo video about the brand partnerships. If you happen to have a copy of the video please get in touch

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!

BYOB Boiler Room

This edition of BYOB will feature 28 visual artists (myself included) and will run from 7pm-11pm at a venue somewhere in East London. It’s invite-only, but as with all Boiler Room shows it’ll be streamed live, so tune in!

Video documentation


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, space and gravity

An overall fun collaboration :-) With both of us now based in remote locations I wonder what opportunities for live collaboration there are…