About
I am currently working on an practice based MPhil/PhD within the School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design, at Leeds Metropolitan University. The research is called Claiming the Portable Home: Research into Creative Acts of Embodying Mixed-Reality and Identity Placemaking within the Digital Domain. The work is supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Stirling and Dr. Åsa Andersson, Ian Tuelove is an Advisor. It is informed by the great social space that the web has uncovered.
I came to LMU from Southampton University where I completed an MA Sculpture degree within Winchester School of Art, under John Gibbons [2004].
I completed a BFA at York University in Canada in 2001, under Ted Bieler and Katherine Knight.
Life has brought me around the world and I have spent glorious and horrible times with great people. The journey has given me a rich collection of images that are found on stacks of CD, DVD’s and hard drives pilled on the shelves in my office. Some of the people I have met along the way have ingrained in the recesses of my memory very special moments of my life. This research in some ways tries to keep in contact with everyone through the embodiment of the digital domain. Social networking space has opened the floodgates to those situations I have left behind, in some cases making it impossible to reach closure or sever from past identity. The simultaneous collapse of multiple identities that one person can lead and the increased requirement to generate new profiles has led me to ‘mash it all’ up.
My website has more information about the long term results of this research.
A few years ago I initiated another blog when Google first released their API, it took so much programming to get the vectors working on the maps that I soon moved on in my practice. I have tried to delete the blog a few times, and I hid it for a while, but in the end it is here if anyone really wants to see it.
I owe thanks to all the geeks who have crossed my paths over the years.