Alex May

  • Mendel’s Legacy: Exploring Bacterial Genomics through Art

    Mendel’s Legacy: Exploring Bacterial Genomics through Art

    Lecture by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May at the Mendel Museum, Brno Saturday, 28th November 2015, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Anna Dumitriu in her current project “Sequence” uses the latest research in whole genome sequencing and the 2.8 million base pairs of DNA from the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (the non-antibiotic resistant form of the…

  • Wet Media

  • Sequence at the V&A

    “Sequence” is currently being exhibited at the V & A Museum in London, as part of the London Design Festival. A new virtual reality experience has been created using an Oculus Rift, and Alex’s Fugio art software, as part of the ongoing Sequence project using the data and footage from the project. It will be…

  • Toy Hack Digital Metropolis

    Toy Hack Digital Metropolis

    Phoenix Brighton received a Brighton Digital Festival Education Award to work with Alex May and Exploring Senses who created a two day workshop for thirty 13-19 year olds to hack toys, build a cardboard city for them to live in, create animations about them, and finally use Alex’s video mapping software to create a digital metropolis. The workshop…

  • Data Body As Artifact: ISMAR 2015, Fukuoka, Japan

  • Curating in the Digital World: Talk with Robert Storr and Alex May

    “Join international curator Robert Storr and leading digital artist Alex May for an informal discussion about the role of curating for digital artwork.” 4pm-5pm 13th July 2015 Red Room, Chelsea College of Arts 16 John Islip Street London SW1V 4JU Limited tickets available – click here We have seen some remarkable developments as part of the…

  • Art That Makes Itself – Symposium Videos

    Frieder Nake keynote: Paul & Daniel Brown: Where to now The Digital Revolution? Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Jim Boulton, Nico Macdonald, Alex May Maggie Boden, Douglas Dodds & Ernest Edmonds

  • Art That Makes Itself – Symposium

    Brown & Son: Art That Makes Itself Symposium Saturday 16 May, 2pm – 6.45pm Concerns of different generations, tribes and networks who make up digital culture, the challenges and opportunities for making and conserving generative artworks and rapid developments in digital image-making since the late 1960s are among the themes of a symposium on 16…

  • Just 40

  • Bacteria Light Lab at Wellcome Collection

    Over the bank holiday weekend the Wellcome Collection ran a four-day event featuring a wide range of performances, exhibitions, and workshops exploring light. Alex took part as a member of the Bacteria Light Lab, with video mapped projections of historical films, and the video art piece (above) he created with artist Anna Dumitriu, featuring high resolution…

  • My Robot Companion at NESTA’s FutureFest

    FutureFest is Nesta’s weekend festival of radical ideas, compelling talks, and immersive experiences to inspire, excite and challenge perceptions of the future. The most recent festival took place in March 2015 in London. My Robot Companion was on show with its “familiar head”.  This video gives a taste of what occurred during the event, including…

  • TEDxBucharest – Creating Digital Art for Posterity

  • My Robot Companion on BBC 4 Tech (Arabic)

    Alex May and Anna Dumitriu were interviewed for BBC Arabic’s flagship technology program 4 Tech about their ongoing collaborative art project My Robot Companion. The segment starts about 7 minutes in and lasts for about 6 minutes.

  • Computer Arts Society Talk

    Alex will be giving a talk at Phoenix Leicester at 6:30pm on 11th March 2015, introducing his art practice, the software he has created, the aims and challenges behind their development, and his grassroots approach to digital preservation for artists. The Computer Arts Society (CAS) promotes the creative uses of computers in the arts and culture.…

  • Emergency Index: Volume 3

    Emergency Index: Volume 3

    Alex’s Painting With Light performance at Tate Modern is featured in the amazing latest edition of Emergency Index. “While we argue about what performance documentation might mean, every year countless performances are lost to history. In book form, Emergency Index attempts to capture a broad snapshot of the “state of the field” of performance, as it exists right…