Digital Art

Lecture with Victor Acevedo at Goldsmiths

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I am honoured to be hosting the American digital artist Victor Acevedo at Goldsmiths on 6 October 2026 for a talk and discussion: “Victor Acevedo: Spatial & Metaphysical Metaphors”. Free, no need to book, just come along for 6pm. Acevedo has been making images with computers since 1983, and this talk will explore 40 years of digital experimentation from his early work using desktop personal computers, to recent work on the blockchain. As an early adopter of digital tools, Acevedo will consider what has changed in digital art and what challenges he sees for the future.

I am a Visiting Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellow in the School of Computing at Goldsmiths.

Presentation at EVA London Conference

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I’m pleased to be participating in EVA this year on 8 July, in a symposium chaired by Jonathan Bowen and Tula Giannini: Computation, AI, and Creativity. Featuring my new book Creative Simulations, about George Mallen and the history of the Computer Arts Society. Read the EVA paper here. And come to a FREE book launch evening event!

Latest for the Tickle – featuring 1980s micro-computers

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Geoff Davis and his Micro Arts initiative, which allowed people to create computer art at home using their TV and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Read all about it in the Tickle, arts magazine published and sold as an NFT on Objkt.com

Essay published in new book about Dominic Harris by Halcyon Gallery

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“As if Stirred by Magic”, my essay for the Feeding Consciousness: Dominic Harris exhibition this past summer at the Halcyon Gallery, London has just been published in a beautifully-illustrated hardback book.

Also included is a transcription of a talk in the gallery between the artist and myself.

Networked art in Lockdown: how can we be creative in new ways?

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What if we could adjust to new creative ways of doing things, to make and experience art to keep it relevant during times of Lockdown? Use of digital technologies facilitates an art made for networks and is a way for people to have a connection through art across the globe when museums and galleries are unable to open to the public. Read my article published today in Studio International.

See also Colour Computation, an article I wrote in 2013, about artist Ernest Edmonds, featured here:

Ernest Edmonds, H Space, 2020. Distributed Augmented Reality interactive installation. Sydney, communicating with Guangzhou [Photo: Ernest Edmonds]