Writing

  • Imperica – Copyright, Culture, and Creativity

    Imperica recently released the first issue of its digital magazine. I’m happy to have contributed an article called Copyright, Culture, and Creativity. The article focuses on how large commercial corporations appropriate and exploit internet cultures and aesthetics. Beginning to understand copyright on even a basic level can be a career in itself and take…

  • OpenGLAM – Copyright, free culture and art

    OpenGLAM published a feature on my Permission Taken exhibition on their site on 9th May. It talks not only about the exhibition but also on the need to communicate issues surrounding copyright in a variety of ways: Copyright is an incredibly important law that can have massive implications on individual artists and the cultural…

  • Libre Graphics magazine issue 2.4, Capture

    The latest issue of Libre Graphics magazine (and the final issue in volume two) is now out and available for reading and purchasing. This issue looks at Capture, the act of encompassing, emulating and encapsulating difficult things, subtle qualities. Through a set of articles we explore capture mechanisms, memory, archiving and preservation of volatile…

  • Libre Graphics magazine 2.3

    After a series of delays the long-awaited new issue of Libre Graphics magazine is out. If you happened to be at FOSDEM 2015 you may have seen the editorial team launch the issue. It features an article by me about kinetic typography and can be downloaded in pdf form for free or purchased and…

  • Multimedia Programming with Pure Data

    A new book by Bryan Chung, Multimedia Programming with Pure Data was recently published by Packt Publishing. Despite it being a big part of Pure Data Extended, GEM – and making visuals in PD – doesn’t get as much attention as audio processing. Whereas sound-makers have resources such as Loadbang and excellent tutorials from…

  • The Transnational Glitch

    Below is my article for Volume 2, Issue 1 of Libre Graphics magazine. You can still buy the issue or download it from their website. American English is the common language of computing and the internet. That’s quite unfortunate. There are indeed many talented non-English speakers building our websites and shaping our digital future.…

  • Libre Graphics Magazine 2.1 – Localisation/Internationalization

    I’m happy to announce that I’ll have a regular column in volume two of Libre Graphics magazine, starting with the first issue, Localisation/Internationalization This February, Libre Graphics Magazine has reached a major milestone. We have published and shipped issue 2.1, the first number in our second volume. Titled “Localization/Internationalisation,” this issue explores the unique…

  • AlphabeNt: Experiments from A–Z

    AlphabeNt, the book which I wrote the foreword for and spoke briefly about at GLI.TC/H 2112, is out now for either $30AUD or $70AUD (special edition) AlphabeNt: Experiments from A–Z presents the 26 characters of the Latin alphabet as you haven’t seen them before: broken, distorted and aesthetically corrupted using digitally destructive techniques not…

  • N** A******** article

    Earlier this year Ben Rackstraw asked me to write an article about the New Aesthetic for an upcoming issue of TBB (Tits Brains Balls/This Bourgeois Battalion). The issue isn’t out yet but my article has been published on his blog. Here’s an excerptthe full article: When discussion around the New Aesthetic were taking place…