Most of Stoned Moon
A digital collage of Robert Rauschenberg lithographs
December 2019 - online
Making art about making images.
1972 v0.1
A first stab at figuring some stuff out.
November 2019 - online
The 1972 Project
Making work about the period from the last moon landing to my 50th birthday.
November 2019 - ongoing
Rivers of the World 2019
Thames Festival / British Council scheme twinning schools around the world using local rivers.
June 2019 - 5 months
Jo Gane's obscura research
Helping a fellow artist master the camera obscura as a drawing device.
June 2019
Crit Club for Black Hole Club
A review of my art journey to this date, presented to my peers.
October 2018
Stirchley Salon
A meetup for artists and makers to present their work to peers.
September 2018 - Ongoing
Dead Shrines
A camera obscura sculpture in Stirchley Park.
September 2018 - 9 months
Scab
Microscopic photogrammetry of a wound on my leg.
September 2018 - online
Are You Satisfied?
Playing an extra in a Rachel Maclean film.
August 2018 - online
Flash
A lighting flash as viewed by an insect.
June 2018
City Arcadia mini-residency
Three days with Coventry Artspace
June 2018
Open Zine Archive
My collection of thousands of zines and small press comics emptied out in a gallery for a week.
June 2018
Optical Array
Installation for Stellar, a group show commissioned by Lumen on the theme on Space.
April 2018
Blow-Up 2018
Imagining a reboot of the 1960s photography-based thriller where David Hemmings plays The Data Centre.
March 2018
Rivers of the World 2018
Thames Festival / British Council scheme twinning schools around the world using local rivers.
March 2018 - 8 months
Instructions for Humans
A Cargo Cult for Artificial Intelligence - artworks exploring human interactions with machines.
December 2017 - 3 months
Instructions for Humans Interview
Mark Hancock interviewed me about my exhibition
December 2017 - online
Transcripts of Humans
Three months of talking to visitors in a gallery, transcribed for the gallery wall.
November 2017
Data Cult
An Instructional Event for Humans.
November 2017
Cell Tower Mast For Sympathetic Magic
Sculpture responding to data blackouts in Puerto Rico.
October 2017
176 Birmingham Mail Website Trackers
Lifting the veil on the surveillance propping up local news.
September 2017
The Black Box
A metaphor for opaque systems.
September 2017
Ars Electronic 2017
I visited the international media festival on a bursary and took part in a game as a media artist.
September 2017
Developed in Birmingham
A camera obscura studio in Birmingham Museum and a Speculative Cameras workshop.
August 2017
APHE Human Interfaces conference
I spoke at the Academic Photography in Higher Education conference
July 2017
Echo Edit
In order to understand data-based performance art I decided to make some.
July 2017
A tour around my face
Portrait photography with a microscope.
June 2017 - online
Smiling in a Room
Alvin Lucier meets FaceApp
June 2017 - online
Spectrographic Manifestoes
Election speeches transformed from audio to graphical and back again.
June 2017
R(AW)NN
New Robert Anton Wilson texts generated by a Recurrent Neural Network
May 2017 - online
Hacking Choreography workshop
Work produced with Kate Sicchio at Resonate 2017
April 2017
The Delightful Impossibility of Cityscapes
A lecture to the Kings Norton Photography Society on how to document a city in curious ways.
February 2017
Pictures from Dorian Gray
Generating images from a novel using an AI system trained on a photographic archive.
February 2017 - online
SIMULACRAMOMA
Maximum object detection on the Moma collection.
January 2017 - online
Show and Tell
A support group for artists in Stirchley
January 2017 - 7 months
Experimental Capture workshop for BOM
Sharing knowledge on weird cameras at Art & Tech Social.
January 2017
Five David Bowie videos, focus-stacked
Merging music videos
January 2017 - online
The Droids
When is a copyright infringement not a copyright infringement? When the robots can't see it.
January 2017 - online
Auto-blending 2016
Focus-stacking the "best of" photos from news sites.
December 2016 - online
Fuck Your Flags
Pixel-sorting the nations of the world into irrelevance.
December 2016 - online
20/20 Visions
My New Camera Is A Laser
November 2016 - 3 months
Goodbye Wittgenstein
A residency in Linz, Austria.
November 2016 - 1 month
A Portrait of Birmingham
A street-level representation of a complex city.
August 2016 - online
t-SNE
Algo-sorting images into aesthetically pleasing grids.
August 2016 - 5 months
Foot Camera
Filming a walk with a camera stuck to my shoe
August 2016 - online
648 Members of Parliament
All the MPs all at once.
July 2016 - online
Golan Levin's Experimental Capture Workshop
An intensive summer school in Aspen.
June 2016 - 1 week
Art in Crisis
Photography project working with homelessness charity Crisis in Birmingham.
June 2016 - 1 month
Making it Matter
Politically Aware Art in a Networked Society
June 2016
Koyaanisqatsi Slitscanned
Swapping the horizontal and temporal axes on a movie.
May 2016 - online
Speculative Cameras at BOM
Fellowship research project into what cameras could be.
April 2016
Spinning Logos
Destroying corporate sigils using JPEG compression.
February 2016 - online
Sketching Obscura Cabinet
Commission for the Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre.
January 2016 - 3 months
Trailblazers
Stan's Cafe project working with 120 pupils from 20 schools to discover their opinions about Birmingham through photography.
November 2015 - 3 months
Instabeck
Imagining a lost sculpture using Instagram images
October 2015
Birmingham Obscura R&D Artworks
Four new artworks by four artists for the camera obscura.
June 2015 - 1 year
Cross City Walk Treadmill
An interactive walking movie for the Flatpack Film Festival
May 2015
Watchmen, by Brightness
Sorting the panels from the comic book Watchmen by their computated brightness.
April 2015 - online
Flatpack Film Festival Camera Obscura installation
Analogue screens in a cafe window
March 2015
Sitting In Stagram
I am logged into an Instagram account, identical to the one you are in now.
February 2015 - online
Which Am I Most Like? Typologies
Exploring shitpic aesthetics through cataloguing a meme.
January 2015 - online
Supper Room
Spinning the Last Supper
January 2015 - online
Slitscanned Presidential Addresses
Pushing presidents through the slitscanning process.
January 2015 - online
Cross City Walks
A series of walks across Birmingham in as straight a line as possible, undertaken with Andy Howlett.
November 2014 - 4 months
The Birmingham Camera Obscura
A crowdfunded camera obscura for Birmingham.
November 2014 - Ongoing
Birmingham Open Media Fellowship
Fellowship at arts organisation at intersection of art, technology and science.
November 2014 - 2 years 2 months
Live Sonification of Photography
Lecture and Performance of a system for turning photos into sound.
October 2014
Ikon Traces
Photography art-walk commissioned by the Ikon gallery as part of their 50th anniversary
July 2014
Prototype Birmingham Obscura
We knew nothing about building a camera obscura but we did it anyway.
July 2014 - 2 months
Birmingham Obscura
An ongoing project to develop and build camera obscuras in Birmingham.
July 2014 - ongoing
I Am Spinning In A Room
Degrading a selfie by rotating it thousands of times.
June 2014 - online
Spectral Songs of the Slitscanned Selfies
What do selfies sound like?
June 2014 - online
Flatland Selfies
What do self-portraits look like in one dimension?
June 2014 - online
Typologies of Hypernetworked Vernacular Self-Portraiture
A video essay about selfies.
March 2014 - online
Theatre Obscura
Turning the Old Joint Stock's theatre into a giant camera with Jenny Duffin.
January 2014
Rotunda Obscura
Turning a top floor apartment of Birmingham's Rotunda tower into a giant camera with Jenny Duffin.
January 2014
Bring Your Own Beamer
A group show where everyone had to bring their own projector.
November 2013
Photographic Exploration of Place
Developing an artistic practice based on photo walks.
July 2013 - 5 months
Pinhole Camera Workshop for Bham Architecture Festival
A workshop run for a festival where I first worked with Jenny Duffin.
May 2013
Ikon Gallery workshops
Photography masterclasses using the gallery exhibitions as a stimulus.
May 2013 - 2 ½ years
Dirty New Media
Glitch-art conference run by Antonio Roberts which I attended
March 2013
Photo School with Pete Ashton
Umbrella for my photography training and event freelance work.
February 2012 - Ongoing
IMG_4228
Searching video and photo sharing sites for a specific filename to get a broad sample.
January 2012 - online
Railroad Towns - music video
A music video for Friends of the Stars, made using sequential TTV photographs.
November 2011 - online
Dead Space
My first 'proper' exhibition, in the windows of the old Birmingham Central Library.
May 2011 - 1 month
Ikon Slow Boat
Using blogging with the Ikon's Youth Programme.
May 2011 - 3 years
Birmingham Zine Festival 2010 Talk
I spoke about The Emergence of the British Small Press Comics Scene in the Early 1980s to an audience of zine enthusiasts.
September 2010
A Few Of My Favourite Things - Ikon
A talk given at the Ikon gallery as part of their series.
August 2010
The 8-Bit Pete Lectures
A talk given at a videogame movie night run by Flatpack Film Festival
June 2010
TTV Pete Exhibition
My first public exhibition of my work - all the TTV photographs in the Moseley Exchange co-working space.
March 2010 - 1 month
Created in Birmingham Shop
A 3 month pop-up shop in Birmingham's Bull Ring centre.
February 2010 - 3 months
Outer Circle Bus Stops
Photographing every bus stop on a circular route.
November 2009
Dunkirk
Short film made in 48 hours for Film Dash
October 2008 - online
TTV Pete
Hacking lens filters out of vintage cameras for performative photography
August 2006 - 5 years