Joshua Portway (born 1967) is an artist and game designer. He is a frequent collaborator with
Lise Autogena, for example on their
Black Shoals stock market. He is also the author of th
Noodle series of interactive music pieces, which was originally created as a part of larger world music project at
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and human rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rock band Genesis. He left the band in 1975 and launched a solo career wit ...
's Real World Multimedia studio. Although the main project didn't see the light of day, Noodle was released as an interactive track on a number of Real World CDs, and later evolved int
Noodle Heaven
By 1984, he had written and published the game "Sim" for the
BBC Micro
The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a family of microcomputers developed and manufactured by Acorn Computers in the early 1980s as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project. Launched in December 1981, it was showcased across severa ...
and
Acorn Electron
The Acorn Electron (nicknamed the Elk inside Acorn and beyond) was introduced as a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers, to provide many of the features of that more expensive mach ...
, which reached number 2 in the charts in 198
In 2002 he was nominated (along with Lise Autogena) for the
Alternative Turner Prize
He is the son of the artist
Douglas Portway, and brother of actor and musician
Saskia Portway.
External links
personal websiteartist page at the-artists.orgBlack Shoals ProjectSound Mirrors Project
Tate BritainNoodle HeavenOriginal Noodle WebsiteSim, for the BBC Micro
1967 births
British installation artists
Living people
British video game designers
British video game programmers
{{UK-artist-stub