Qualifications:
- Emerging artist on the South London Arts Partnership scheme (January - November 2007)
- Masters in Networked Media, Ravensbourne College, Kent (Ravensbourne College, 2005)
- Masters in Graphic Design (Birmingham City University, 1990)
- B.Sc. Electrical & Electronic Engineering, UMIST (Manchester University, 1981).
Education/ Lecturing:
Greenwich University -- Teaching Flash --- Nov/Dec 07.
Ravensbourne College of Design -- Teaching Interactive Media & PPD -- February 2008 to December 2009.
Shows and competitions:
Flaneur - art and culture zine (Spring 2010 edition)
One of my recent drawings published
26 March 2010. Bankers Bonuses project at
LUMEN_EX festival (Spain).
and Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum Web Biennial 10.
November 09. Collaborated on drawings/ images for the
DIWO-2/ Dark Mountain Project.
A walk in the park with Joseph Paxton
-- Live networked performance, computer network generated conversation with Joseph Paxton, part of the London Festival of Architecture, Hyde Park, London - June 2008.
Buddy Rivers Live
-- Live networked performance, computer network generated comedian, Leroy Street gallery, Bermondsey, London - April 2008.
University of Greenwich -- Presented 'Radiation Walks' project to the 'Trouble Makers/ Making Trouble:interdisciplinary transgressions' conference (22nd February 08).
Pepperton Gallery
-- Group show, exhibited prints from 'The Wreckers'. Selhurst, November 2007-February 2008.
Daily Constitutional, issue "Delusions of Grandeur" (December 2007).
South London Artists Partnership
-- Exhibited
Home is where the mast is print in group show for South London emerging artists, Space C Gallery, Croydon, September-October 2007.
FILE 2007 and 2008
The wreckers' project accepted for the international festival in São Paulo.
TENSE, NERVOUS HEADACHES?
-- Tour of Crystal Palace, London, performance mapping mobile mast radiation levels/ Google Maps project. September 2007.
Cartoon Generator -- online tool,
mixing user pictures and captions with RSS generated captions. For Takeaway 2 show, Dana Centre, London, April 2007.
DIWO -- Political drawing
for HTTP Gallery, January 2007.
The wreckers -- An interactive and collaborative work on the wrecking of the
ship MSC Napoli in Devon, January 2007.
newscartoon v2
-- Presented to conference on Generative Art, for the Norwich International Animation Festival, October 19th 2006.
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newscartoon --
Tool using RSS feeds and Yahoo searches to generate a cartoon/ illustration based on latest news and users opinions. Exhibited at 'Be Very Afraid' group show,
BAFTA, Piccadilly, London (October 2006).
Networked Art Generator
-- A spin-off from the Shirley Bassey project. A tool for creating live net drawings. Illustrations created using this tool were exhibited in the Signals festival,
Crystal Palace, London (September 2006).
Shirley Bassey Mixed Up
-- Network generated collaborative illustrated story. Exhibited at 'Be Very Afraid' group show, BAFTA, London (October 2006), Online Exhibition of International
Digital Art (Liverpool Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art 2006), Generative Art Milan (Dec 2006).
newscomic -- An RSS driven comic strip (June 2006).
Corrugation Street -- A communal
soap opera, an experiment in new forms of interactive storytelling, particularly collaboratively authored and networked narratives. Exhibited at 'Takeaway' festival,
Dana Centre, London (March 2006), and Generative Art Milan (December 2005).
The Chinese Cocklepickers -- Interactive
story concerning the tragedy of the Chinese migrant workers who drowned in Morecambe Bay, 2004. Exhibited at 'Takeaway' festival, Dana Centre, Science Museum, London (March 2006).
Supermarket Sweep Up -- A community and campaigning
watchdog blog focussing on major supermarkets (2005-7).
The Picture of Dorian Blair -- Tony Blair has
done a deal with the devil. His portrait is locked in the attic. Each day a news story appears on the website. Based on his behaviour, the public vote on his actions, and
his portrait changes (January 2005).
Stop it -- Campaigning web site against proposed commercial development of historic London park. Now off-line (2000).
Yves Klein Interactive -- CD-ROM Interactive exploration of the life of the French Artist (1995).
Totally Lost -- computer animation. Shown at Museum of Modern Art (MAMAC), Nice (6 April 1994) and FFOFF Film Festival, Nice (March 1994)
Happy Valley -- Computer
animation. Shown at following festivals: Sao Paolo One-Minute film festival (1994), FFOFF Film Festival, Nice (March 1994), Videoformes, Clermond-Ferrand, France
(April 1994), Glasgow New Visions short film festival (April 1994).
Mini stories/ prints:
michael by the pool
-- the Barrymore pool tragedy (June 2007).
Kenezuela -- slightly
distorted fiction describing Ken's recent trip to Cuba (January 2007).
Like bees around a honeypot -- a small story about a lonely woman stalked by supermarket delivery drivers (November 2006)
Shirley Bassey story -- short biography
of the legendary diva, where you can mix your own custom version (August 2006).