Antonio Roberts (also known as hellocatfood), is an English new media artist and curator based in
Birmingham
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, notable for his work in the areas of
glitch art
Glitch art is an art movement centering around the practice of using digital or analog errors, more so glitches, for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices. It has also been regarded as a ...
,
installation art
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific art, site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior intervent ...
and
live coding
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 ...
performance, including live visuals and/or music performances at
algorave
An algorave (from an algorithm and rave) is an event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques. Alex McLean of Slub and Nick Collins coined the word "algorave" in 2011, and the first event under su ...
s. His work often addresses themes around open-source software, free culture and copyright.
He was awarded a BOM Fellowship in 2016, a Near Now Fellowship in 2017, and July 2019 was announced as one of 15 artists appointed to a-n The Artists Information Company's 'Artists Council'.
References
External links
Official homepage
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century English male artists
Algorave
Artists from Birmingham, West Midlands
British new media artists
English contemporary artists
English curators
English installation artists
Live coding
Software bugs