Cuttlefish Digital Arts

Stench IV took place at The Phoenix on Friday - the last of our events to take place there before the 'old' Phoenix closes and the new one opens under the name of 'Phoenix Square' in the Cultural Quarter.A (intentionally) slightly less packed programme than last time started with turntablist James...

For my second week at Schumacher College the focus of our studies shifted to Gaia Theory and ecological systems in general. Frijof presented materials from his "Hidden Connections" and "Web of Life" books and Stephan Harding presented work from his book "Animate Earth"...

After a week of studying the science of Leonardo with Frijof Capra at Schumacher was time for a couple of days off. I used it as an opportunity to review my notes from the previous week and do some video recording around the college.

Where do I start? It's been a really packed few days. Various sessions with Frijof Capra discussing the science of Leonardo. A 'gaia' walk with Stephan Harding around the Dartington estate. Plus cooking, gardening, cleaning and eating. Schumacher College really is a amazing andfulfillingplace to be...

Another full day at [link http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk]Schumacher College[/link]. Starting with a session with Fritjof Capra, then a very interesting open discussion with Stephan Harding, Brian Goodwin and Fritjof (pictured). In the afternoon we had a "fireside chat" with Satish Kumar...

I arrived at Schumacher College in Totnes, Devon today to participate in a two week course being taught by Fritjof Capra entitled "Living Networks: From Leonardo to Lovelock & Beyond". It's my first time at the college...

Many years ago I took and passed the "Radio Amateur Exam". This enabled me to apply for a radio amateur license and (more importantly for me at the time) gave me a good excuse to learn about electronics, radio and useful things you can do with a soldering iron...

The next Stench event will be happening at The Phoenix in Leicester on the 5th June 2009. It's going to be a great night with audiovisual performances from Modulate and Mick Grierson and others...

This Friday 1st May we will be presenting the final show for the residency I have been doing at the Music Technology Innovation department at DMU...

I've just heard that I will be doing my laser/lights installation at the Shambala festival this year with Modulate. Shambala is a great, small, creative festival that takes place in Northamptonshire. It's very family friendly and I always enjoy doing stuff there...

The latest Stench event took place at the Phoenix in Leicester last night. A good size crowd saw a variety of performances from Leicester-based artists and musician plus a film showing form 7" Cinema. For pictures and video clips from the event visit the Stench web site.

I had an opportunity to do my first piece of truly interactive laser work at the recent Stench event. Working with music from James Kelly, I mixed a live laser sequence based around six-sided patterns. I used the Fiesta...

I've been a fan of persistence of vision toys for quite a long time. Indeed, I produced an exhibition about them back in 2002. Recently started to get in to them again and have been scouring eBay for the the newer LED-based toys...

A few years back archdrude Julian Cope wrote an excellent book about megalithic sites in the British Isles. It's an amazing piece of work, well-researched, beautifully illustrated and authoritative...

I've just watched the film "There is No Authority But Yourself" about the anarcho-punk band Crass. It's an interesting mixture of interviews and archive material that tells the story of the band from the perspective of former members Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher and Steve Ignorant. It's a good film...

I attended the launch of GivingWorldOnline.Com today. This is the latest project of the charity Konnect9 who help companies with surplus goods find charities who need them. The new website is a sort of eBay meets Freecycle with a charity twist. A great idea that works in many ways...

I went to see the "Solder Soldiers" event at the new Great Central Gallery in Leicester last night. The event was organised by Bathysphere and featured performances by kREEPA, ASMO and Wrongbot with DJ Myoptik. I did lights...

A great show tonight. Janek Schaefer and James Kelly played tonight at St Nicholas in Leicester. See pictures and video from the show.

Live at St Nicholas's church. Lighting by Cuttlefish.

I love finding old hard drives, you never know what you are going to find! On an old 12Gb USB drive I found a few gems. There were a whole bundle of pictures from a Shamen show at The Forum in 1995 plus some pictures from a Zion Train show in the early 2000s. I also found some good video material...

I went to see artist Stelarc give a presentation at Loughborough University. I've been aware of his work for many years but this was the first time I've actually heard him talk about it. I was very impressed...

I've just booked to go on a two week course being co-taught by physicist and writer Fritjof Capra. I've been a follower of Capra's work since I read "The Tao of Physics" whilst a graduate researcher...

Despite calling myself an "Artist and Technologist", most of my blogging is actually about my arts work. So to make a change I'm going to talk tech for a bit.I got hold of a Nokia N810 at the weekend. This is a wifi-enabled Internet tablet that runs a version of Linux and contains a GPS receiver...

We've made some good progress on a number of projects in January...

I've just booked to go on a two week course being co-taught by physicist and writer Fritjof Capra. I've been a follower of Capra's work since I read "The Tao of Physics" whilst a graduate researcher...

Despite calling myself an "Artist and Technologist", most of my blogging is actually about my arts work. So to make a change I'm going to talk tech for a bit.I got hold of a Nokia N810 at the weekend. This is a wifi-enabled Internet tablet that runs a version of Linux and contains a GPS receiver...

We've made some good progress on a number of projects in January...

We're starting to get our ideas together for this year's Summer Sundae Fringe Festival. We hoping to get a two week programme of events together focussing on Leicester's grassroots music and arts scene. If you are interested then visit the www.summersundaefringe.com website for more information.

My ArtScanner installation is now running at The Broadway in Nottingham. It will be in the main foyer area for at least two weeks to coincide with the Radiator festival. Go to www.artscanner.org and upload your images in exchange for barcodes. Put them near the scanner and let visitors view them...

Phew. A busy 2008 is about to give way to a busy 2009 I think...

I've just watched the film "There is No Authority But Yourself" about the anarcho-punk band Crass. It's an interesting mixture of interviews and archive material that tells the story of the band from the perspective of former members Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher and Steve Ignorant. It's a good film...

A few years back archdrude Julian Cope wrote an excellent book about megalithic sites in the British Isles. It's an amazing piece of work, well-researched, beautifully illustrated and authoritative...

I attended the launch of GivingWorldOnline.Com today. This is the latest project of the charity Konnect9 who help companies with surplus goods find charities who need them. The new website is a sort of eBay meets Freecycle with a charity twist. A great idea that works in many ways...

I'll be reactivating this site shortly as part of a PhD programme. Stay tuned if you are interested.

I went to the Institute of Creative Technologies' 'The Future of Creative Technologies' event this week at De Montfort University. It consisted of presentations and workshops discussion various aspects of creativity and technology. It was an interesting event...

Tomorrow night sees a one-off Megatripolis reunion. Back in the early ninties I attended half-a-dozen Megatripolis nights at the Heaven nightclub in London and the experience has remained with me ever since...

Saturday night saw the Many Coloured Days / Threep event in the Space Theatre at the National Space Centre in Leicester...

This week I am preparing for 'Many Coloured Days' at the National Space Centre this weekend. Together with Stuart Smith I will be providing 360 degree visuals for Chris Cousins' new surround sound musical piece...

I hooked up with The End Blues band in Dobrich, Bulgaria and shot some footage of them rehearsing. It got me thinking, there might be a proper film in here somewhere. Will try to come up with an idea for next summer. Check out the video on YouTube.

I've just started a artistic residency with the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University. Over the coming months I will be working with a number of students helping them develop live visuals to go with their music...

These were the main areas I covered in my talk on Thursday: 1. What are Live Audiovisuals? 2. My previous work 3. Max/MSP/Jitter 4. Quartz Composer