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  • The Stay at Home Residency – part 3

    From 1st – 29th July I was happy to be selected as an artist in residence for The New Art Gallery Walsall’s Stay at Home Residencies. In the second blog post I looked at how I approached filming. In this third and final blog post I’ll be detailing my sound making process and sharing…

  • The Stay at Home Residency – part 2

    From 1st – 29th July I was happy to be selected as an artist in residence for The New Art Gallery Walsall’s Stay at Home Residencies. In the first blog post I looked at my influences and research carried out before I started making work. In this second blog post I’ll be showing some…

  • The Stay at Home Residency – part 1

    From 1st – 29th July I was happy to be selected as an artist in residence for The New Art Gallery Walsall’s Stay at Home Residencies. The New Art Gallery Walsall has adapted its Studio residency programme in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic to support three artists based in the West Midlands to…

  • 10 years since GLI.TC/H

    Exactly 10 years ago the first GLI.TC/H was starting in Chicago, IL. Attending that festival was turning point in my practice and, the more a reflect on it, an important part of my personal life. Here I want to reflect on that a bit. GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media…

  • Typewriter Text Revisited Revisited

    This ongoing adventure to create a typewriter text effect has had a lot of twists and turns over the years. Back in 2011 I used Pure Data to achieve this effect. Fast forward to 2019 and I experimented with Kdenlive and Natron before settling on Animation Nodes. In April 2020 update on this I…

  • I Am Sitting in a Room Revisited

    My remake of the Alvin Lucier artwork I Am Sitting in a Room was released 10 years ago today. To mark this occasion I want to revisit how I made it and troubles I had remaking it for 2019. In November 2019 I Am Sitting in a Room was exhibited at Gamerz Festival in…

  • OCR to Text to Speech

    For the sixth video in the Design Yourself series the group worked with artist Erica Scourti. For the activity the participants used optical character recognition software (OCR) to generate poetry from their own handwriting and writing (leaflets, signage) found throughout the Barbican building. The next stage in the workshop was going to be to…

  • Copy Paste photos

    Photos of the Copy Paste exhibition currently taking place at Piksel in Bergen, Norway, and online in the Piksel Cyber Salon Full list of exhibiting artists inculde Carol Breen, Constant, LoVid, Lorna Mills, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez + Julien Deswaef, Duncan Poulton, Eric Schrijver, Peter Sunde. Photos taken by Maite Cajaraville. More photos can be seen…

  • Copy Paste opening

    Copy Paste opened at Piksel in Bergen on the evening of Friday 22nd May. Sadly myself and all of the exhibiting artists were unable to be there but fortunately they live streamed the whole thing. After all of the uncertainty about whether Copy Paste would go ahead I’m really happy that situation in Bergen…

  • Seamless Looping Neon Trail in Blender

    I’d like to return to the fifth video in the Design Yourself series to show how i did a glowing neon trail. The video is heavily themed around robots, and if you look in the background you’ll see that it’s actually a circuit board. The circuit diagram was a random one I built using…