Category: Practice & Research

I got to spend two weeks as a toolmaker resident at Signal Culture in Owego, upstate New York. I spent the time working with flexible, waterproof solar panels, made by powerfilm, sewing them into a demin jacket, like a Battle Jacket, so they charge a lipo battery which in turn powers a pi zero, via…

For this project,  a captive portal at a train station, I needed to set up a raspberry pi so it can broadcast a wireless access point over a larger area than it can just with it’s own wireless adapter. It needed to do this without mains power. I couldn’t find anywhere online where this info…

I was happy to attend Theorizing the Web at The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. I presented a short paper ‘More is Not Less – Self Denial on the Internet ‘ on the Fiction, Fantasy and Faith panel. The paper works towards understanding how self denial works in relation to networked interactions.…

I delivered a paper at Aalborg University Copenhagen as part of E.V.A. (Electronics Visualisation and the Arts) Politics of the Machines – Art and After Conference. I was really excited to be part of a panel that really ranged across the possibilities of what art could be on the internet in an exciting way. The…

Edge Hill Station is a passenger rail station opened in 1836, making it the oldest passenger rail station in the world. It is now also home to METAL, an arts organisation. In January 2018 I began a residency in the station garden to build a local wireless network that broadcast out of the garden. I…

I spent a great weekend at Radical Networks listening to talks and attending workshops. I introduced my research into asceticism on the network too, you can see the talk here

During August I have been at Outlandia, an off-grid treehouse artist studio and field station in Glen Nevis, Lochaber, Scotland. During this period I wrote an essay, Art, Neo-Medievalism and Loyalty, and created a mountainside wireless network that showed a short film, Tribute.

As part of the drive to move into a more ascetic mode of operating on the internet I have moved my work to a server that I keep at home, on a shelf, in our living room. (Just writing these words ‘server’ and ‘living room’ in the same sentence makes me realise how far apart…

I will be presenting my research at Tate Exchange in Liverpool on Monday the 16th of January at 1pm. I’ll be talking about how asceticism can be a useful part of a digital practice. To get to this we need to look at how asceticism has been co-opted and altered to mean something else, something…

White Wizard has become a LAN project space and relocated to the frequency signal of 2437 mhz in the general location of Northern Lights, Cains Brewery Village, Grafton Street, Liverpool, L8 5SD. Look for a wireless SSID signal of ‘TheWhiteLizard’- like this: For more info go here