I’m going to be speaking at the Random String Symposium on March 7th, in Coventry. There, I’ll be talking about Technology as an Artist’s Material:

Here’s an idea: technology – technologies – are not only tools. They are also materials. To make art with a material, we need to be conversant in it, aware of its capabilities. And these new materials are not all tactile, physical; the materials of the digital world are as much immaterials.

How do we develop that familiarity? How do we understand the grain of a material that we may not be able to feel? How can we sketch in technology?

Let’s explore, briefly, what technology can be when considered as an artist’s material.

It’s familiar territory if you’ve seen me speaking about materials or sketching, but it’s a new talk aimed at a slightly different audience – it’ll be nice to talk about practice in the artistic space, and perhaps use some different points of reference to normal. Regardless: looking forward to it. The full schedule is on Lanyrd.