Dirty New Media
Glitch-art conference run by Antonio Roberts which I attended
March 2013
In 2013 I was asked by my friend and Vivid Projects curator Antonio Roberts to photography an event he was running for the documentation. Dirty New Media was a follow-up to GLI.TC/H which he had brought to Birmingham in 2011. As I took my photos the following things went through my mind.
- I could do that.
- I would never do that.
- That’s brilliant.
- I did something like that.
- That’s stupid, and I can explain why.
- I want to do something like that.
Basically I felt I was watching a peer group I should, or could, be part of.
So, on 21st March 2013 I decided to actually become a proper artist, doing this sort of thing as professionally as possible.
I happened to be sitting next to Karen Newman, now director of Birmingham Open Media, and asked her if she did mentoring for people who thought they might be artists. The rest is documented on this website.