Antonio Roberts — (hellocatfood)

Artwork and visualisers created for the Abandon Reality EP by Echo Juliet

(Algo|Afro) Futures was a mentoring programme for early career UK-based Black artists interested in exploring creative coding and live coding. The programme ran over four editions between 2021 - 2025.

Heavyweight Champ is a critique of stereotypical ways Black men have been depicted since the early days of video games.

Nodes demonstrates the creative potential of live coding. Created during lockdowns, the title refers to how the live coding community consists of nodes spread across the globe, linked by the software and interest in live coding

Visually Similar is a video work looking at how images and videos we post online can be used to preserve history but also be remixed to create new narratives.

Sticker Book is an artwork about nostalgia and childhood. Fairy tales told to us when we’re young fill us with wonder, inspire us, and fill our imaginations. As we grow up we start to see the more sinister side to them. The companies that tell these stories are themselves problematic. These empires use IP and copyright laws to control exactly who gets to tell these stories and how they are told. By allowing them to amass such a large amount of stuff we have enabled them to take a hold of the very notion of childhood, imagination, and innocence.

No Copyright Infringement Intended is a group exhibition exploring the relationship between copyright and culture in the digital age, investigating how the concept of ownership and authorship is evolving and coming into conflict with outdated copyright and intellectual property laws.

Some of My Favourite Songs is a series of images made by reinterpreting each of the 16 songs on the CD as images. Each of the 16 images were made by taking an mp3 of each song and feeding it into a specially made program - built with Pure Data - that converts the mp3s binary data into an image. Unlike spectrograms and waveforms, this visual representation of the audio shares a lot with glitch art and captures the noisier and more chaotic nature of sounds.

GLI.TC/H gathers a variety of participants + works + ideas from within glitch/dirty/experimental-new-media art communities into a multi-day & multi-format happening consisting of video screenings, real-time performances, workshops, lectures, panels, a gallery exhibition and on-going online components.

Using Alvin Lucier’s 1969 piece I Am Sitting in a Room as inspiration, in this piece I show the many steps taken to damage data to the point where it loses all meaning.