artafterscience was formed by artist Zev Robinson and computer programmer Adrian Marshall in 2001 to explore ways in which science, maths, and technology could fuse with images to create art. The result has been slow-moving animations with elements of randomness (colour, movement, combination of objects) that, in effect, go on forever without repeating themselves and the viewer will never know what will come next, and won't see it the image in the same way again.

Insect eyes and menu-icons, in mutual regard, form a multi-layered system. The film interprets the restless repetition and redundancy of menu and insect behaviour as typical of absurd technological society. The visual and sonic play alludes to our hyped digital utopia - the tension between an unbridled material and its standardization into discrete binary units.

Blake Quentin is an artist, farmer and voyeur whose work is driven by scopic desire and satisfied by the gimlet eye of his techno-array. Dividing his time between Manchester, Brooklyn and Sofia, he appeared in Buzzword Bingo (2002), and One-Less (2003). He operates the edgy Voideville microcinema in a disused Appalachian mineshaft.

Coryn Smethurst is a composer and philosopher. He gained MA in Philosophy and Visual Arts from Essex University and PhD on philosophy of music from Warwi... More >>

These three excerpts are from a collection of eight formal observations of objects. Choice of object arises from experimentation with potential sounds that can be created through physical interaction with each item. Sound is approached as a painterly consideration of line, tone and colour. These repetitive, looped compositions playfully structure sound into percussion, and movement into dance - creating audio and visual experiences that work as rhythmic wholes.

Carl Turton is an artist using video, performance, and digital technologies. He is interested in rhythm, pattern and relationships between sound and movement. His playful videos experiment with everyday sounds, whilst capturing the objects and movements associated with those sounds. He is involved in artist-led groups in NW England and was recently screened at Experimental Film Today Conference 2003.

In March 2003 a list of vetoed UN resolutions was hand-inscribed onto DV tape using a magnetic quill. Interpreted by the digital apparatus, these data produced lawless sonic and visual explosions – a fluid display of synthetic aerial terror. The action alludes to the shared nature of entertainment and military technology – seeking perfect spectacle whilst shunning error or uncertainty. As compressed light and sound are unleashed in volatile glitches, the convention of digital precision is tested.

Dave is interested in locating physical or imaginary borders between media forms, and in encounters between media culture and traditional knowledge. His use of video, often arising from deliberately laborious or unstable methods, incorporates live action, some animation and a painterly approach to light, framing and materials. His intention is to touch upon post-human concerns about the illusions of security and perfection surrounding technologies, and to commemorate their redundant, temporary... More >>

A digital fantasy: pixel creatures wander the forest and gravitate inexorably towards the rhythmic splendour that is the heap of primal matter. The creatures are drawn to and transfixed by this elemental fountain. The pixel bestiary commences an instinctive dance to the throb and pulse of the quivering heap as a state of wild transfiguration is achieved. A wonder of fecundity, a myth: the spitting geyser taps deep into its mucilaginous reservoir. Its ceaseless convulsions describe a natural cycle of life, death and compostation.

The Cartwright Brothers have been since 1975. The Cartwright Brothers use software and the machine to chisel their creatures in a work that moves them from synthetic vagrancy to God's ineffable animal pyramid.

* special EUROPRIX 2002 presentation*

The 'Eight Computer Tasks' project is a lot more than the typical promotional CD sent to record companies. The CD-ROM gives a rich audiovisual experience of the so-called improvised club-music of the Norwegian band WIBUTEE.. The CD-ROM contains different tasks which the user can work with, varying from contact links to innovative interactive elements. A video editor allows the user to mix and create their own video clips and the music mixer allows for mixing of samples of the group's songs. This new model of promotional a campaign really helps to differentiate the band from the vast majority of competitors in music business.

Keepadding are an artist collective based in New Mexico. Their work includes digital prints, analog prints, graffiti art, collage, and site-specific works. They often incorporate themes of surgery, architecture, wreckage, and the organic into their works.

Keepadding recently collaborated with Funkstorung on a series of designs to accompany their latest record release. They also recently curated an exhibition at the Santa Fe Art Institute featuring artists such as Scott Pagano, Ph... More >>

Lee Patterson's Heatwork centres on discovery of sound in objects, structures and spaces, where it's presence is an invitation to engage with the source. In this collaborative video with Dave Griffiths, both sources and sounds are raw materials in a sonic and optical inscription utilising basic recording technology and a performative working process. The spectacle is a celebration of the source matter and original event, and remembrance of earlier media forms.

Lee Patterson graduated from BA Visual Arts at Salford University in 2002. In 2002 he established the New Acoustical Pleasures imprint with Ben Gwilliam, received a place on the 1st Out Bursary, and performed Sparklers at Burst Couch, Manchester. He performed Heatwork for Bottles at Expo, Nottingham; Root X, Hull; and National Review of Live Art, Glasgow (2003). He participated in the sound installation Hothouse at Sefton Park Palmhouse, Liverpool, with IOU Theatre Co. and completed a short re... More >>

* special EUROPRIX 2002 presentation*

The purpose of the CD-ROM 'Nature & Civilisation' is to promote better awareness of environmental and social issues. Interactive essays lead through topics like Evolution, Chaos/Order, Regeneration, Destruction, Interaction and Adaptation. An integrated game demonstrates the effects of three influences of mankind and how different proportions of each can create various and different environments. These effects are represented by the characters of Mr. Trade, Mr. Culture and Mr. Ecology.
Produced by Romain Berthet, Yann Binet, Olivier Laruelle, Romain Perin Supervised by Manny Ling, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland, UK.

Senior lecturer in Design. His design interests are in print based media. He is the founder of the ‘Calligraphy Research Initiative’ at the University of Sunderland. He is currently finishing his PhD research on ‘Calligraphy and New Technology’

Frankfurt-based company Meso digital media systems design specializes on fresh concepts intertwining design, playful interaction and advanced technology.

Karl Kliem is developing realtime audio and video systems. Diverse works in the area of multimedia, webdesign, tv-design, music- and soundproduction for films and interactive installations.

Sebastian Oschatz is teaching interaction design and new media. Record releases and video works with group Oval. Developmen... More >>

Electronic media “saltimbanque”, Formed first in a multimedia school in France, I moved to Sunderland, England where I graduated with a BA and Masters Degree in Electronic Media Design at the University of Sunderland (UK). I’m currently living in London working as freelance designer. Aside, I’m researching within the audio visual domain on how programming can enhance the meaning of a on-screen mark trough the capture of our environment.

* special EUROPRIX 2002 presentation*

"then all of a sudden is an interactive video led CD-Rom based on the subconscious world of dreams. The aim of the CD-Rom is to visually represent peoples unconscious dream state of mind, to enhance memories of dreams and to become more conscious of our unconscious. The structure is a combination of videos which visually attempts to interpret common dream characteristics. there is one re-occurring dream that re-occurs with three different emotions, Happiness, Fear and Confusion. In all the user has the choice of viewing twenty-seven different combinations of the one re-occurring dream. "then all of a sudden.."also offers meaning of certain events and symbols experienced whilst dreaming and includes recordings of peoples dreams.

My name is Rebecca Lloyd and I am 25 years old. After studying Fine Art at Wimbledon Collage of Art I moved to Bristol in 1999 to study sound, multimedia and video. I graduated from the University of the West of England in 2002 with a first class degree in Editing and Multimedia. Since graduating my Multimedia programme "then all of a sudden..." has won various competitions. My main achivement was being nominated among one of the top 15 in Europe in the Europrix 2002 Top Talent Award in Vie... More >>

Romain Berthet is a Vienna (Austria)-based digital/electronic media designer, a graduate of the University of Sunderland (UK), engaging in the use of different media and the combination of various techniques and material. Europrix first brought the proficient young designer to Vienna he now in turn attracts the interest of various design organisations in the country. No doubt the new media company he works for owes the 2004 Silver Venus (CCA Gala) and the Golden Egg (Columbus 2003) to him and hi... More >>

Part of the Nature and Civilization project, which explores the relationship between us humans and the rest of the world.

I studied multimedia in France, then BA (Hons) Electronic Media Design in Sunderland, England, where this project has been realised in cooperation with 3 other students and under the supervision of our tutor Manny Ling. I then moved New-Zealand where I am actually working for a multimedia company (www.arcad.co.nz) while still creating experimental pieces for various magazines.

Audiovisual works which focus on originals and reproductions.

Born in 1978 in Osaka, Japan. In 1999, started creating video works and regulary working and presenting visual works with video installations and screenings in various individual and group exhibitions at domestic and overseas art and film festivals. At the same time, started performing live at galleries, art spaces, and clubs. Recently presented works at the LOVEBYTES 2003 [UK], VIDEOEX 2003 [CH], TokyoZone 2003 [FR], KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION [UK] to name a few. In 2003, first CD and DVD were rel... More >>

Crossroads are sites of impromptu magical performance - secret spaces where indescribable events and changes occur. Here it was possible to sell your soul to the devil in return for mastery of a skill. This outside place is now duplicated millions of times in every town and city, potentially reducing the substance of sacred and feared spaces through familiarity. Now artworks, once considered sacred and singular, are digitised for infinite, perfect duplicates. Does this mass compression and proliferation, the conversion of emotive images and sounds, make the work any less powerful? Are we selling our souls at the digital crossroads?

Scott Byrne is an artist using photography, video and sound to explore relationships between disciplines operating under similar boundaries (time, space & sound). Nailpusher - (live action, animation, and digital sound composed from amplified objects) - won best student film award at 2003 Lancaster Film & New Media Festival. In 2001 he worked on a multimedia project in UK and El Alamein (Egypt), investigating experiences of WW2 veterans of North African conflict.

The piece refers to language, using a machine as metaphor for a person and how we make assumptions from appearance, not always seeing beyond the surface. The piece subtly illuminates ambiguity in language. It magnifies writings visual role in evoking images within the imagination and memory and illustrates communication of feelings without speech. The repetition of the printed word acquires an aesthetic strangeness where meaning may lose or gain significance. Does its physical appearance mirror it's meaning, or does it look like it should be spelt differently, like a person who does not look like their name? The hypnotic sound and visuals create a rhythmic, musical beat, allowing reflection - through the fall of light or point of view - upon something seemingly everyday, mundane and ugly.

Tamzin is an artist working with text, photography, animation, video and more recently, music videos. Often her work looks at language and communication and is intended to probe 'ways of looking,' at the 'already' existing, everyday, banal things which we tend to overlook.

A sound reactive 3d projection piece, a scene plugin for Toxi's "macronaut" engine which is used to create entirely code based, generative VJ visuals. This particular piece renders 48 frequency bands in an op-art style. Beats will trigger changes in various parameters of the algorithm, as well as camera transforms.

* toxi (aka karsten schmidt), 28 years, german
* 16 years of coding experience
* started with assembler on eastgerman KC85/3, atari xl
* active member of demo scene (chip special software) in the early 90s
* programmed commercial "lemmings" clone (aka "the brundles") for atari xl
* 93-97 various live PAs (inTOXiCated/effacer) on german raves
* 95-97 unfinished studies in "comp.sci of media", dresden, germany
* first VJ experiments with director ... More >>

transforma is a platform for the production and exchange of video and graphics. oscillating between discourse and loss of control. transforma performs live screening, editing and deconstruction of this material. mostly in clubs, concerts and other electronic music contexts. transforma produces images for soundworks and is continually interested in collaborations with sound artists and musicians. transforma exists since 2001 and was founded by luke bennet, baris hasselbach and simon krahl. transf... More >>

This artwork was meant to highlight the cycling nature of energy in Nature, which does not generate wastes, unlike human beings.

French, 24 years old, graduate from Montbeliard university (France) in "Services and Networks of Communication", BA (Hons) Electronic Media Design from Sunderland University (UK). Currently finishing my Masters in Electronic Media Design in Sunderland University. Likes ice cream and wafers.

Ben Hodges is a graduate student at the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He works with film and digital media to explore the layering of memory and place. From Bulgarian seaside resorts to academic conferences, Hodges has used his productions to address local concerns through the art of personal expression. Currently Hodges is editing a short film, researching the culture of online learning, and pursuing funding of all kinds.