Category: art

  • The CyberAnthill

    The CyberAnthill

    I’ve been developing a new art work, The CyberAnthill. It’s loosely based on a space-filling cellular automaton that was in turn partially based on a cross between Langton’s Ant and the Tron light cycles game. It’s a way of filling up 2D spaces, like grids, with emergent systems that are unpredictable in their internal form…

  • Spirals just got real

    Spirals just got real

    We’re received a new shipment of Flashforge Creator Pro 3D printers at Ravensbourne and I got first crack at them to do some test printing.  It took a few attempts to get the settings right in the ReplicatorG software that they recommend for generating the printer files (hint – make sure to save models before generating…

  • Sound Spirals, Provocative Plastics, Oscilloscopes, Hands

    Sound Spirals, Provocative Plastics, Oscilloscopes, Hands

    I recently gave a talk at the Provocative Plastics conference at the Museum of Design in Plastics at the Arts University Bournemouth.   My presentation slides are online, and hopefully the video of the talk will be uploaded soon (as promised). Currently, The Sound Spirals are made with some custom software fast-prototyped in Processing (yes I…

  • Making Solid Sounds Talk at Dorkbot London Dec 15th 2014

    Making Solid Sounds Talk at Dorkbot London Dec 15th 2014

    I’ll be giving a talk Monday December 15th, 2014 at Dorkbot London about my work in sound sculpting.  This was partially inspired by some work I’ve done for the new BA (hons) Design & Coding course at Ravensbourne.

  • Cross Squawk at Ravensbourne

    Cross Squawk at Ravensbourne

    After over a year, I’m happy to announce that my project Cross Squawk is being shown at Ravensbourne! There is a detailed record and explanation of the project and philosophy behind it here. The opening event will be 7-9PM on Wednesday 17th April at Ravensbourne: [mapsmarker marker=”1″] You can find a detailed presentation on it…

  • Whitney Evolved at Kinetica 2012

    Here is the program for our installation at the Kinetica Art Fair 2012, projected on the back wall:  

  • Winter Particles

    Happy Holidays! It’s been ages since I posted anything, mostly because I’ve been so busy teaching at UCA Farnham and Openlab Workshops. Here’s a little something for the holidays. The code is below, and the source image was courtesy of Jan Tik on Flickr.

  • Hand-waving-time-slices test

    Hand-waving-time-slices test Originally uploaded by da mad pixelist For an upcoming exhibition (my first solo exhibition) I’ve been working on a series of 5-7 new works, from interactive software to prints to sculpture. These tests are from a live capture of my hand opening and closing in front of a camera attached to the computer,…

  • Twitter Words Visualization

    A visualization of each individual word used in twitter status updates overnight from 6PM GMT on Feb 22 2010 until 10AM GMT on Feb 23. Movement is caused by the list of words growing, as the program sees more individual words. Words used more often are larger and brighter (they grow logarithmically). There were a…

  • Tests for a music video for PJE

    I’m working on a music video for a song by PJE called The Employee and doing some tests.  The idea is to create the surrealistic daydream of a 1950’s woman on her first day on the assembly line of a dreary, machine-like typist job.  I’m doing all the visuals rendered in fluxus, cut with some…