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British artist exploring art, science & tech. Focus: time, memory & mediated experience via algorithmic photography, generative digital art, sculpture, & robots

Brighton, England
Joined October 2017
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Memory Compression: even if you're not considering collecting these artworks, they are all now available for viewing on @objktcom - 12 new video works with original soundtracks. Over an hour of video art! Made using Python and @FFmpeg (such an amazing tool). Link below.
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Watching TV in bed after a long day 3D printing parts of a sculpture and struggling (unsuccessfully) to motion track a long panning shot in Blender #objktoftime
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I have just collected "The Pacific Ocean Isn't Warm" by @skomra on @objktcom
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I have just collected "𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘓𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦" by @1000Landz on @objktcom
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Artist Luciana Haill (@BrainAnalyser) is now on @objktcom - if her new video work is anything to go by, we're in for a weird fun time! Happy to help onboard.
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Looking out of the train window in the summertime #objktoftime
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RT @AnnaDumitriu: New artwork alert: Susceptible 04 just listed on @objktcom - the artwork is a beautiful data visualisation using healthca….
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Just did this amazing photo of a seal off the beach in Brighton (so happy I didn't take my zoom lens out).
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I have just collected "Saint Pantaleon" by @quantum_folks on @objktcom
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It's not always easy to get a subtle, painterly effect in the current version of the software I wrote for this project. While I really enjoy the bold, brash colourful images, I also like the more gentle ones that seem to invite you in, such as this one. I can feel it's getting
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I have just collected "Pioneer (Daddy Long Legs)" by @BrainAnalyser - GENESIS PIECE - on @objktcom
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A street scene at night. The central lower form is a street light. The upper, wispy form is formed from the lens flare coming off the street light. Top right we have a tree. Altogether it forms a tall herbivore made of light nibbling at the leaves. Or, whatever you see in it
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RT @computerartssoc: Free Computer Arts Society event: “Alan Sutcliffe Remembered” at EVA conference. Learn about a computer art pioneer wh….
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I went to the Kiefer/Van Gogh exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts yesterday. I always really enjoy the scale of Kiefer's works, where you can get close and have all this texture and colour fill your field of view. I love digital art and I love this too. It is all nourishing.
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Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London. The algorithm creates a mid-air shadow; the clouds become involved; there are strange hues in the sky. I've walked past this scene countless times, but I've never seen it like this #objktoftime
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