Adrian Ward (born 1976 in

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, England) is a

software art Software art is a work of art where the creation of software, or concepts from software, play an important role; for example software applications which were created by artists and which were intended as artworks. As an artistic discipline software ...

ist and musician. He is known for his

generative art Generative art is post-conceptual art that has been created (in whole or in part) with the use of an autonomous system. An ''autonomous system'' in this context is generally one that is non-human and can independently determine features of an ...

software products released through his company Signwave, and as one third of the

techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time ( ) and often ...

gabba

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group, Slub. His theoretical approach to generative and software art guides his practice, including contributing to the early principles of the

livecoding Live coding, sometimes referred to as on-the-fly programming,Wang G. & Cook P. (2004"On-the-fly Programming: Using Code as an Expressive Musical Instrument" In ''Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expr ...

movement. Adrian co-won the 2001

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software art award in

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, alongside Netochka Nezvanova for his well-known Auto-Illustrator parody of

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, off-the-shelf generative software that takes control over the artwork produced with it. Auto-Illustrator has earned prestigious digital arts awards including an honorary mention at the 2001

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. He is also a board member of the UK Museum of Ordure, an ongoing collaborative art project with

Stuart Brisley Stuart Brisley (born 1933) is a British artist. Education Brisley studied at Guildford School of Art from 1949 to 1954 and at the Royal College of Art from 1956 to 1959. In 1959–60 he attended the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, Ge ...

and Geoff Cox.

References

External links

Auto-Illustrator

Signwave UK web site

Personal site
1976 births Living people English artists British digital artists Alumni of the University of Plymouth Algorave {{England-musician-stub