Selected commissions, residencies and projects
April-Oct 10 – Digital Media Labs – Co-developer/ Technical Director
From a successful 22k arts council application – A week long residency is being developed as an experimental way of commissioning digital art.
April 10 – BigPicture.TV – Artist
Guerilla projection of a naked man being chased by a flash mob around London in aid of getting people to vote for the May elections.
TBC 10 – Tower Works – Artist/ Visionary
Site specific projection mapping installation on a Italian bell tower in Leeds.
March 10 – Temple Works Residency
Artist in residence at Temple Works in Leeds.
March 10 – Candle Tower – Artist/ Visionary-
Commissioned by Lumen to design a week long light installation in a 20-storey cylindrical building in Leeds centre.
Jan 10 – June 10 – Lumen Residency – Artist
Residency exploring interactive projection mapping techniques in collaboration with Micheale Spessa. Results can be seen at www.mappingorganics.co.uk
Sept – Oct 09 – Bloom – Artist/ Visionary
£8K Commission to transform the once largest room in Europe through a week long, deep space sonic light installation. Over 500 people attended.
May – Nov 09 – Wired Wood – Artist/ Visionary
£5K commission by Urban Vision to deliver a flash mob bluetooth tree/wood installation in the heart of Longton in Stafforfshire.
June 09 – Our City Our Music – Chops – Co-Direction
Geo-located music video based at the International Swimming Pool in Leeds, UK. Only accessible via a GPS device in the location it was sonically recorded and filmed.
Dec 08 – Present – Friispray – Co-creator/ Developer Interactive infrared Graffiti - Featured in WIRED magazine, on Digital planet (BBC World Service) Showcased at UK Ignite North (O;Reilly), NTI Leeds, Apple Euro-creator Workshop, MAKEr Faire (Newcastle) Paint (interplay Theatre) Thinking Digital conference, Sage, Gateshead in May 2009.
Nov 09 – The Horse in Motion
Reworking of Edweard Muybridges Horse in Motion photograph from the 1800s, animated and projected from a moving vehicle.
99 – Present – VJ/ Animator
I have played over 350 live shows across the country for experimental and mainstream acts to audiences of 3000 people.
Feb 09 to May 09 – Creative Partnerships – Artist/ Visionary
Commissioned to answer the question: Can new media increase learning in a school’s permanent course of teaching science? The experiment successfully used VJ software, mobile technology and the web.
March 09 – Long listed for the 300k Mirror Pool Commission in Bradford.
Jan 09 – Shortlisted for the Hidden Place Commission in Burnley.
Dec 07 – Authenticity – Artist/ Animator/ Live Performance
12k Commission which involved a 2 month conversation lead research project into an alternate history of Leeds. The realisation of these stories appeared as ephemeral projections onto Leeds Civic Hall and other locations around the city on Light Night 2007.
Aug 07 – Creative Partnerships – Lead Artist – 2 Week Residency
Devised film and animation projects for James Rennie Special School. Experimented with existing and new VJ technology to create three new forms of interactive story telling. Co-wrote a paper on the application of interactive technologies to enable reflexive learning.
Aug 06 – RPG (Record Process Generate) – Co-creator/programmer
Leeds Met Gallery
Interactive installation that mapped a live stream of the users image onto a 3D shape which they controlled through realtime hand gestures.
Sept 05 – Feb 06 - Time Cycles – Park 4D TV – Curator
Curated a 45 minute TV Art show that aired online and in Amsterdam, Berlin, New York and Rotterdam on cable networks.
2005 – Shortlisted for a NESTA £30k Innovation grant for the project OSEB.
Music Video & Short Film
Nov 10 – Middleman – Its not over Yet – Co-Direction
(Un-released)
June 09 – Our City Our Music – Chops – Co-Direction
Geo-located music video based at the International Swimming Pool in Leeds, UK. Only accessible via a GPS device in the location it was sonically recorded and filmed.
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
July 10 – Meantime – Cheltenham. The Horse in Motion (Mobile Projection) @ Cheltenham race course & the town centre
TBC 10 – Hatched – Bradford Play House. The Horse in Motion (installation)
June 09 - Meet the Maker (Exp24&ESA) The Horse in Motion (film)
Nov 08 – Kinetika (Leeds Int. Film Festival) The Horse in Motion (film)
June 07 – Interim – Old Broadcasting House, Leeds. UK Hse in Motion (film)
Aug 06 – Interim – Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds. UK – RPG
Nov 05 – Tank.tv – Online. Cinity B5 (film)
Nov 05 – Jan 06 – Park 4DTV – Online & Amsterdam, Rotterdam, New York, Rotterdam (via cable networks) – Cinity B5 (film)
Oct 05 – Terminal 1 – Leeds Library, UK – Cinity B4 (film)
July 05 – Interruption – Future Sonic – Manchester, UK Cinity B4 (perform)
Apr 05 – Short Circuits Int. film screenings – Leeds, UK – Cinity B2 (film)
Selected Education/Community Projects
July 08/09 I Love West Leeds Festival Radio – Co-Programmer
Co-programing and daily running of a community online radio broadcasting a diverse program from experimental noise to primary school’s plays. Due to its success the radio is to continue on a bimonthly station called RadioEXP.
Mar 08 – Artlink West Yorkshire – Spark II – Lead Artist
Interactive 2 day workshop for children with disabilities around the theme of spring.
Oct 05 to Present – Interplay Theatre – Various projects.
Working with disadvantaged youth/disabled/elderly in the production of workshops/short-film/documentary/animation from conception to cinema screening – Recent artist facilitated LS12 film – one man’s walk won best film at the first light 2010 film awards.
Nov 07 – BBC Blast – Lead Artist
Delivered two workshops in Documentary making and VJ production and performance.
Feb 07 – Arts Council England – Guest Artist
Delivered a two day workshop in Documentary making for the youth theatre council.
05 – Present – Chol Theatre – Lead artist
Lead artist devising and running workshops with disadvantaged young people in the creation of documentaries, animations and short films since 2005.
Consultancy, Mentoring & Talks
Feb 2010 – Bits2 Blogs Conference.
FriiSpray presentation with The Jam Jar Collective.
202002 – Left Eye Blind/Channel 4 Ideas Factory/ Artstra – Mentor
Project involving 20 film-makers & 20 musicians in the making of 2 usic videos in 2 weeks.
MELT 2006/ Day Dream 2007/ Howdenshire Island 2008/ Remapping Scunthorpe 2009 – Technical/Design Consultant
Advised artist Benedict Phillips on research aspects: from a large scale media commission to town planning web interfaces.
Awards
07 – Arts Council England
Received a £4500 award to create a bookwork and DVD to showcase my work and personally take to an international audience.
05 – Audience Award for best music video (channel U)
Audience voted best music video for ‘takin over’
03 – Millennium Awards
Lead a team to win a grant £8000 to buy equipment to teach in schools.
Education
Leeds Metropolitan University -
School of Art, Design & Architecture.
(2000 – 2007)
MA Fine Art (merit).
BA Art and Design (2:1).
HND Multimedia Technology.
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