Wednesday, January 18, 2006. Artists, Technologies, Organisations and Competitions. There is a wide gap between artists that utilise technology as a medium for expression and technologists who use art as a medium for communication, and then there are the corporations that use art as a cool front. Mind the gap - watch out for academic arscience, hidden agendas and the Emperors New Clothes.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006. An eccentric, a genius. Pask was an artist, a performer, in 1956 he created the Musicolour keyboard.

A pool of evolving and emergent ideas for the new building. Thursday, February 23, 2006. By Richard Brown and Jon Oberlander. Schematic of possible interactive installation. Moving panels, tracking dataprojectors. The idea is that .

A series of links to useful resources for creating interactive installations using non contact sensing. Monday, July 17, 2006. The conversion of data traffic into audio representations - types of data, speed, events - converted into an ambient and informative sonic landscape. This notion was first suggested to us by Paul Anderson of Informatics who gave me the reference to Peep. An OS package that converts data events into bird song and ambient sounds of water and rain. MP3 audio sample of Peep.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006. Research Artist in Residence, School of Informatics. I am interested in the representation, cognition. And conceptualisation of interactive time based and. Emergent processes in digital and analogue media. Inspired by the work of the cybernetician Gordon Pask,. My recent work explores the complex possibilites of analogue electrochemical systems. Pask dismissed the digital computer as a kinematic magic lantern . With the advent of alternative.