Recently presented gameworks to IMPAKT festival. This is
hosted in Utrecht each year, it has a very good profile and
will build upon my connections within the Netherlands.
Lots of fun interesting people there making games inspired
works.

Montevideo is a new media organisation situated in the Netherlands.
They have a residency program 'AIR' for artists.
This year one of the main guidlines is that the project should
utilise and be created out of Open Source Software (OSS).
This type of technology makes alot of sense. Most software has an OSS alternative,
at the moment the key problem is awareness and profile.
Within our society many people are too used to spending vast amounts of money,
certain companies and even creative individuals still suspect anything that is good can be for free!
OSS software developers are now making efforts to educate community projects
and schools, where access to this would make real sense.

For the AIR program, I have proposed my 'TAO JOYSTICK' project and reworked it to fit into the guidlines,
with a new title - 'FREE CREDIT' I will work on this project within the OPENLAB sessions at Glasgow school of Art.
A regular meeting place for artists and programmers interested in the uses of such software.
I have also proposed to use the residency as an opportunity to
rework and remix selected videoworks from the Montevideo archive library, via the FREE CREDIT
games console, this will form part performance and part interactive installation.

Soda Magazine is an international arts magazine, based in Switzerland They recently published
some of my images and an article within the Asia/Alias issue.

Heres a small exerpt from my included text.

My studio is large and cold, it has little natural light, this is where all my ideas are put to the test,
in a space devoid of all colour, with the dust hanging gently and the sound of someone using the oxytetraline torch next door.
Outside and on my bike I pass by roads I have never even been down. On my way to pick something up, drop something off or get to a meeting on time. The sounds I hear from my Walkman and the pace of movement at times blend into one, climatic changes or the sudden unexpected motion of a similar activity can bring this about. At times this is great enough to trigger off new ideas, of which I cultivate, sometimes I believe these visitations only appear whilst I rush and my head is full of distractions.

Pointless Creations on tour.The first one of 2006 took us into Croatia and
to a beautiful old town called Rijeka. Our part in the festivities was to create
an AV performance and interactive space within the carnivalparty streets.
The town had the most amazing perspex domed phone booths, and I was
quick to appropriate this into a diy interactive video booth station from which I
operated my computer.



Croatia has an amazing culture the people have had quite a history to deal with
but most recently everything is on the up and everybody we met were happy and
accomodating. As is so often the case when we travel to such countries and feel the
warmth and genuine hospitality of such a nation,
I return from these trips always with mixed feelings as to our situation in the UK.
For more photos of the interactive greenscreen see my Flickr photo page.

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