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The Stay at Home Residency – part 1
From 1st – 29th July I was happy to be selected as an artist in residence for The New Art Gallery Walsall’s Stay at Home Residencies. The New Art Gallery Walsall has adapted its Studio residency programme in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic to support three artists based in the West Midlands to…
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Gif Pack #1
Between projects I often make little animations. Sometimes they’re made as a result of learning new software and sometimes I make them to test out an idea or technique. I’ve decided that I’ll start a regular thing on this here blog – hopefully monthly – where I share some of those gifs and other…
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10 years since GLI.TC/H
Exactly 10 years ago the first GLI.TC/H was starting in Chicago, IL. Attending that festival was turning point in my practice and, the more a reflect on it, an important part of my personal life. Here I want to reflect on that a bit. GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media…
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Typewriter Text Revisited Revisited
This ongoing adventure to create a typewriter text effect has had a lot of twists and turns over the years. Back in 2011 I used Pure Data to achieve this effect. Fast forward to 2019 and I experimented with Kdenlive and Natron before settling on Animation Nodes. In April 2020 update on this I…
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Copy Paste at Ars Electronica 9th – 13th September 2020
Copy Paste is back and will be taking part in Ars Electronica from 9th – 13th September! This year Ars Electronica’s online programme features exhibitions and events from 120 locations globally and Piksel in Bergen, the original host of the Copy Paste exhibition back in May, is one of them. The online section of…
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Blender Animation Workshop – July 25th
On Saturday July 25th I’ll be delivering an online a Blender workshop for Access Space! The three-hour workshop (13:00 – 16:00) will go through a few basics of using Blender but will mainly focus on making abstract glitchy looping gifs, like the ones that I made for Improviz. Tickets are £15 and can be…
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I Am Sitting in a Room Revisited
My remake of the Alvin Lucier artwork I Am Sitting in a Room was released 10 years ago today. To mark this occasion I want to revisit how I made it and troubles I had remaking it for 2019. In November 2019 I Am Sitting in a Room was exhibited at Gamerz Festival in…
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OCR to Text to Speech
For the sixth video in the Design Yourself series the group worked with artist Erica Scourti. For the activity the participants used optical character recognition software (OCR) to generate poetry from their own handwriting and writing (leaflets, signage) found throughout the Barbican building. The next stage in the workshop was going to be to…