Art

  • windows.exe has stopped working

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    windows.exe has stopped working is about that moment of uncertainty when software begins exhibiting signs of an impending malfunction. The software stutters, glitches, begins acting erratically, sometimes altogether freezing with no indication of when normality will return. When faced with this hopeless situation the illusion of flawless technology is shattered and we’re reminded that…

  • Submerged

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    Edward Colston was an English merchant, philanthropist and politician whose involvement in the slave trade was often overlooked. In June 2020 his statue in Bristol was toppled and thrown into the harbour during Black Lives Matter protests. Through tearing down statutes we don’t rewrite or erase history but instead reveal more about it. It…

  • Nodes

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    Nodes is a new commission created for the Peer to Peer: UK/HK online festival which ran from 11th – 14th November, created as a reflection on the interconnectedness of the global live coding community. Live coding is a performative practice where artists make music and visual art live using programming. This happens primarily at…

  • Compassion Through Algorithms Vol. II

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    I have a new track coming out on November 6th as part of the Compassion Through Algorithms Vol. II compilation, which is raising funds for Young Minds Together. We’re a group of people from England’s North (from Birmingham up) making music and art from algorithms, shared here in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter…

  • Windows Explorer

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    A short film made as the conclusion of the Stay at Home Residency with New Art Gallery Walsall. The film represents my desire to be out in the world again. Like pretty much everyone my world has shrunk and any engagement I have with it comes from looking out of and into various windows,…

  • Gif Pack #1

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    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…

  • Design Yourself: I Never Found Her

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    In the sixth and final workshop of our Life Rewired inspired Design Yourself project, the Young Creatives worked with artist and writer Erica Scourti. Erica shared her practice with the group and explored Optical Character Recognition software and speech to text translation processes, to interrogate how identity and human understandings are influenced by these…

  • Design Yourself: Party for the End of the World

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    In the fifth workshop of our Life Rewired inspired Design Yourself project, the Young Creatives worked with New Movement Collective and Fenyce Workspace who led a practical workshop introducing the group to their prototype project XO. Through exploring how machines can control and aid human movement through choreography, the group looked at and interacted…

  • Design Yourself: Evasive Techniques

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    In the fourth workshop of our Life Rewired inspired Design Yourself project, the Young Creatives worked with Yoke Collective in a workshop focused on the implications of facial recognition technology. The group used Yoke Collective’s method of harnessing make up and hair extensions to avoid detection from facial recognition technologies. Combined with the creation…

  • Design Yourself: Feeling the Gallery – Making sound and music out of visual data

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    In the third workshop of the Life Rewired inspired Design Yourself project, the Young Creatives worked with artist Matthew DF Evans in a workshop that turned the Barbican into a composition using pixel sonification. Using Matthew Evan’s pixel sonification method to turn the Barbican into a composition, we considered the physics of sound and…