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I’m back in the UK after an amazing week teaching/guest lecturing at SAIC and performing at glitChicago. It was really great to see my friends and peers again, and to spread my knowledge and experiences of glitch art, new media art, and digital art as a whole. Enough yapping, here’s some photos from the…
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Back in January I posted some images of funky patterns. Today I’m formally releasing the script that brought the funk. JPG Glitch Pattern Generator Download them from Github. The first script, pattern_generator.sh, works by exploiting jpg compression on randomly generated images. The script starts by generating a 10px x 10px iamge containing three colours:…
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I recently went to get my eyes tested. I’m not blind – yay!. They gave me two rather neat photos of my eyes: Looks like something a very murky planet.
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I’m happy to announce that I have been accepted onto the University of Birmingham’s Artist in Residence programme for 2014-2015. The University of Birmingham‘s Artist in Residence programme provides artists with a studio on campus and a unique chance to engage with the diverse range of cultural collections held here. The artists work alongside…
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I’m happy to announce that I recently joined the Board of Directors over at Fierce Festival I’ve been attending their festival for much of the time that I’ve been in Birmingham and have worked with them on a couple of occasions, most recently presenting a lecture on internet culture at Fierce Festival 2013. I’m…
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From 9th-15th June I was one of the participating artists in residence at Jesphone Gardens in Leamington Spa for Post-Modern Plant Life: An [RHP] CDRs Artist Laboratory. This was a really great opportunity to do a lot of focussed work on some unfinished projects and also try out new things both on and off…
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In October 2013, whilst visiting Barcelona for the performance at Mutuo Centro De Arte for The Wrong, I had the honour of meeting Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas, collectively known as The Cyborg Foundation. Throughout the evening we began to see some similarities in how we interpret things we see and hear, as well…
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Mercy released a video documenting the performance myself and Rachel Sweeney did for LightNight Liverpool 2014 Thanks again to FACT and Nathan Jones/Mercy for giving me this opportunity!
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I took part in Algorave in Gateshead on 26th April. Apart from being incredibly awesome it was my first time live coding – or rather live patching – visuals in Pure Data from scratch. I emphasise from scratch because nearly all of my performances involve me modifying patches, but never starting with a completely…
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I payed a mostly social visit to USA from 21-30 March (yes, this was after being there only 10 days earlier for fGlitch), with stops in Chicago, New York and a surprise visit to Miami. I had so much fun seeing all of the glitch/new media friends I’ve made over the years, making new…