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  • Dirty New Media photos

    Here’s a selection of photos taken by Pete Ashton for Dirty New Media. The full album can be seen here. If you took any photos or videos please upload them and tag them with “DNM” and “Dirty New Media”. Or just send them to me and I’ll upload them 😉

  • Dirty New Media

    Dirty New Media took place on Thursday 21st March at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts. It was one of the most adventurous exhibitions that I’ve curated! Thanks go out to: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, for taking a chance and including something wildly different to their usual programme Vivid Projects, for asking…

  • BYOB London 2013

    A big thanks to Lawrence Lek for putting together BYOB London 2013. There was a great selection of works, ranging from projection-mapping, generative art and even artware. I had on show a load of work, some of which you can now view on my YouTub Channel. My horse remix of Rihanna also made an…

  • Framing FRAME_birmingham

    Co-directing FRAME_birmingham revealed to me many problems that I never usually face when working digitally. On screens, that are sometimes no bigger than our palm, we’re able to wander through a seemingly infinite space and control and change everything we see at our leisure with only the click of a mouse or tap of…

  • Hack The Public

    On Saturday 2nd February myself and 15 other artists/hackers/tinkerers/people descended upon West Bromwich to hack The Public. A little more about what it actually is: The Gallery Hack Camp is a new initiative developed by The Public and the first delivered in February 2013. It will bring together artists, producers, creative entrepreneurs and technologists…

  • Remediations – Michael Takeo Magruder

    Peterborough Museum has published a monograph of the work of Michael Takeo Magruder, entitled Remediations. It covers various projects that he produced between 2000-2010. One of the projects (or two, depending on how you interpret it) of his that I was involved in was Changing Room v1.0 in 2009 and v2.0 in 2010. In…

  • SuperByte 2013

    My only confirmed gig of this year will be to provide visuals at SuperByte Festival on 13th and 14th September. Even though the festival is months away, the line-up already includes many great chiptune/8-Bit Sabrepulse, Ultrasyd and 8GB! The first SuperByte took place in September 2012, and I was there to perform with Freecode:…

  • </2012>

    2012 was a very surprising year. 2011 was definitely exciting, but this year saw me travelling a lot more and making links with people all over the world. Here’s most of what I got up to this year. January As usual, January was a quiet month, with one exception: In addition to helping to…

  • FRAME_Birmingham

    FRAME_birmingham, the three-month long exhibition of artwork by national and international artists at venues across Birmingham, is now in its second month. Fade to Daft has been taken down from the Penfold Grange Suite of Hotel du Vin, but it can still be purchased online for £180. The next piece in that series, Plenty,…