Bio
I have been working with interactive video since 1999 & I am interested in the use of expanded cinema and interactive installation as a means for social change. My work aims to explore the human interdependent relationship to technology, space and collective identity.
My current areas of reading and research are around ecology, the evolution of the human mind, non-lethal weapons and open source forms of expression via technological forms of street art.
My professional practice involves a multitude of different settings from the commercial to interactive fine arts in contemporary and traditional spaces. Collaboration is core to my practice and informed by the contrasting range of people, clients and projects I work with.
Collaborators include:
Musicians, DJs, Music producers, poets, web designers, programmers, sculptors, designers, architects, Illustrators, film-makers, animators.
For a list of selected client work please click here - Production
I have produced and performed live visuals since 1999 have performed nationally in over 350 shows for people including: Cut Master Swift, Scratch Perverts, Dillinja, ANdy C, Valve Sound System, Lemon D, Dizzee Rascal, Bad Company, DJ Hype, Roni Size to name a few.
Previous VJ names include: The Munkee from Unkle, Edicut and The Visual Suspects.
I am one of a few practicing projection bombers in the UK (any more? get in touch!) & currently working on a series of projections from moving vehicles and on to buildings.
My curatorial and film work has been screened in Berlin, Rotterdam and New York via cable networks and across the UK at festivals, screenings, BBC/MTV.
Collectives
EXP 24, a Leeds-based not-for-profit film collective, founded in 2006. As well as making and screening experimental film and video, EXP 24 are dedicated to creating a space where people can share ideas, be inspired and learn how to create and screen film
themselves.
Co-Director of The Jam Jar Collective Ltd, which creates interactive
digital installations such as Friispray, a virtual, digital graffiti
wall based on ubiquitous and open-source technologies.
Education
I completed my MA at Leeds Met University in 2007. My dissertation entitled - Non-lethal Weapons of Mass Communication looks at how expanded cinema was intended to be used as a weapon by the US government.