Alt-Wilderness was a pop-up 5meter cardboard projection dome, constructed on site, and used to host a curated selection of art for Fringe Arts Bath in May 2024. The brain child of Nigel Fryatt @datarav3, and using the collective skills and muscle of residents in the EMERGE programme, the dome provided a venue for images, film, original music and a party or two. The build is documented here.

Outside In is a group exhibition hosted in, and responding to, the cells in C-Wing at Shepton mallet Prison. The show was curated by Luminara Florescu for Somerset Art Weeks in 2022. I used a compination of projected original animations, created with p5.js, EL wire sculpure, and a soundscape of found sounds to create an installation that imagined a world beyond the walls.

Residents of Emerge Studio in Bath, organised a group mixed media art exhibition in Gallery at the Station, in Frome, Somerset in July 2022. The show included a work I developed in collaboration with Coral Manton, using a simple algorithm and generative layouts to construct plausible advert-like statements and ‘truths’. This is part of an on-going set of developments around algorithms and AI in our lives.

A short film exploring the role of a table as a ‘place’ at the centre of my family’s lockdown life. Created for and submitted as part of the Pause:Small Stories exhibition.

At the SWCTN data showcase event, we got to expand on our vision for guiding citizens towards more circualar, sustainable choices through technology, storytelling and data.

The Studio Breathes gives Studio residents a mobile web app to capture their breathing rhythm, by visualising and tracing on the screen, in an elliptical path. Tracing up as the inhale, down as they exhale. The very act of thinking of your breathing requires you to become conscious of an otherwise autonomic process. This will likely result in a change to breathing, in many they will breath more slowly and deeply.

Participants are invited to reflect on their role in the studio, whether physically present, or working remotely. Reflective prompts are provided by Ximena, who has used such prompts to encourage participants to undertake immersive activities in her own work.

Finally, after submitting their breathing, and thus becoming present, they can observe a visualisation of their own breathing, and the collective breathing rhythms of all currently present breathers.

More Info at http://the.studiobreathes.org/about

AI for Nervous Humans is a workshop for everyone taking a critical look at AI, and then a playful look at how AI can be used easily in creative or practical projects. The emphasis is on making AI accessible while being playful and critical. Development for this workshop was funded by SWCTN.

My first ever Unity projectis a 2D game built using a good deal of frame animated pixel art. A complete departure from my typical generative art in p5.js and processing. It gave me freedom to explore a more narrative style of digital creativity.

A project for my MSc Creative COmputing at Bath Spa University.

A collection of four recent sketches built in p5.js along typical themes for me – natural processes and phenomena, echoes in code.

As part of 44AD Gallery’s exhibition for The Art of Communication in the Commonwealth, Discourse and Influence is a p5.js based sketch using flocking style behaviour to show the shifting influence of two opposing voices in a landscape of followers.

In a time ruled by COVID19 and video calls, we find that Here and Now are less definite than they used to be. An exploration of time and place with your webcam, powered by p5.js. Created for and to be exhibited at Fringe Arts Bath (FAB) 2020.

https://cranbim.github.io/Fab20Happenings/index.html

The Viennese Salon @theviennesesalon is an artists meetup created by Austrian artist Caroline Vitzthum @vitzthum_caroline, as a friendly cosy space for artists, performers, and makers to share ideas, seek critical dialogue in a safe and open environment. I have been privileged to be invited as a member and a speaker.  

• A writeup of the day can be found here.
• Event site
• First You Make the Rules Event

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