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  • Thinking Out Loud launch, 14th July

    On 14th July I traveled back to London (I might as well live there) for the launch of Thinking Out Loud at the Open Data Institute. ‘Thinking Out Loud’ is the fifth Data as Culture art exhibition at the Open Data Institute. The exhibition is built around the practice of the 2016 ODI Sound…

  • RIP Libre Graphics magazine

    On March 9th Libre Graphics magazine announced that after six years it would stop publishing new issues. Current and past issues are still available while stocks last. Since 2012 I wrote for Libre Graphics magazine as a regular columnist. Prior to this my illustration, What Revolution? was featured in issue 1.2. The idea for…

  • Potentially Harmful

    At the beginning of January I was approached by MTV to make a new visual ident for them. If you haven’t seen, since 2015 they have been approaching a wide range of artists to make these idents. They even received two D&AD awards for them. Previous ones that I’d seen included ones by Eva…

  • Exquisite Corpse workshops overview

    Permission Taken, which exhibited at Birmingham Open Media and University of Birmingham between October 2015 – May 2016, focused on copyright, remix culture and ideas around sharing, originality and ownership. In planning the exhibition I was fully aware that these concepts can be quite complex to comprehend and, worse still, incredibly boring, so I…

  • Flatpack Film Festival – 10th Birthday Party – 23rd April

    Flatpack Film Festival turns 10 this year!! To help celebrate I’ll be providing a few gifs and animations for their birthday party on 23rd April, 21:00 at The Edge. Help us blow out the candles on ten years of festivaling, as we celebrate the coming of age and reaching double figures with a traditional…

  • Flatpack Film Festival – Mothwasp – 23rd April

    On 23rd April Mothwasp – Matt Watkins and Steven Taylor – will be returning to Flatpack Film Festival to perform as part of the Optical Sound series of events. Multi-disciplinary artist Matt Watkins joins forces with drummer Steven Taylor (Calvados Beam Trio) to explore the intersection of moving image, noise, electronics, mechanics and abstraction.…

  • Permission Taken launch photos

    It’s been open since 2nd March and now the second part of Permission Taken, taking place at the Bramall Music Building at University of Birmingham, had its launch event on 7th April from 17:30 – 19:30. Many thanks to everyone that turned up and heard my short speech and drank all the wine. The…

  • Random String Fellowships

    The awesome folk at Ludic Room have announced that they are now running a Fellowship programme for their Random String event. If you’re interested in incorporating digital technology into your practice then read on. I’ll be one of the mentors on this programme. The Random String Fellowship is an opportunity open to artists and…

  • Homegrown – Artist Development Programme

    Home For Waifs and Strays have launched an Artist Development Programme and they are looking for submissions. An artist development project run by

  • Evasive Manoeuvres BOM Fellows talk

    On 7th March myself and Lucy Hutchinson presented to the world our research and work to date on the Evasive Manoeuvres project. The recording of our talk is now online: We’ve now set up a blog where we will be documenting our work. Check it out!