About Me

Originally from the UK, I moved to Seattle in 1997. Since then I have been working in the tech industry developing new software for image recognition and applying it to consumer video and photography. This blog reflects my passion for art and personal projects.

I am focusing on creating an interactive experience where the electronic art pieces respond in some way to the presence or movements or intentions of the viewer and create a feedback loop, especially responding with sound, motion or light in ways that are continuous and organic like living organisms and not in a mechanical way. I am particularly interested in the boundary between the artificial and the biological. I’m trying to apply my training in neuroscience and artificial intelligence to capture strange reflexes and behaviors that are typical of living systems and translate them into art pieces that often make use of obsolete or pre-war technology,  e.g. valves, relays, or gas filled electronic tubes, which I think is particularly strange and appealing to people who have been brought up with the sterile technology of the internet era. Interestingly I have had to find and import many of these obsolete parts from fromer soviet countries like Ukraine – a task which ironically is only possible because of the internet.