Brief (37 words)
Drystone waller turned film maker, animator, VJ, educator, now an artist, entrepreneur, projection bomber interested using technology & intervention as a medium for social change. Currently researching experimental projection methods from moving vehicles/ interactive programming and blending tea.
Less Brief (154 words)
I have been working with interactive, time based visual art in public, private and virtual spaces since 1999. I am interested in the use of expanded cinema, interactive installation and devices as a means for social engagement and change. I am a practicing projection bomber (guerilla outdoor projection) & currently working on a series of projections from moving vehicles. I am is currently researching methods of mixing arts and business to create a sustainable practice and uncompromised artwork informed by the intersection of creative, private and public sectors. My new work seeks to explores the human interdependent relationship to technology, space and collective identity.
My current areas of research are in non-lethal weapons, mind hacks, open source forms of technological gesture based expression. Collaboration is core to my practice and shown by the diverse range of clients and people I work with including: Musicians, Composers, Writers, Illustrators, Programmers, Scientists, Architects, Engineers, Sculptors and other film-makers.
Collectives & Organisations
Digital Media Labs – Co-developer/ Technical Director – By using major arts organisations to nominate artists, we aim to provide a annual platform for commissioning digital art through a intensive, residential media lab lead by industry professionals and artists. (digitalmedialabs.org)
The Jam Jar Collective – (Co-director) – We have fun with technology, such as friispray – a open-source infra-red virtual graffiti program.
EXP24 - (Co-founder) We as a collective set to create a platform for discussion and showcase film and performance works at screenings across the North of the UK. We ran our experimental film lab based at East Street Arts in Yorkshire and devise and run workshops in shooting & developing super8 and 16mm film. [now expired march 2010]