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  • I grew up in a struggling northern industrial town during Britain's turbulent transition to a post-industrial economy. Amid the soot-blackened terraced houses, dilapidated mills, and rapidly vanishing chimney stacks, were the valleys and hills of
  • Born in Essex, England, susan pui san lok lives and works in London. She graduated with a first in Fine Art from Bretton Hall, University of Leeds (1994), followed by an MA with distinction in Feminism and the Visual Arts, again from the University
  • Deep Sleep moves backwards and forwards in time between a notorious Sydney psychiatric institution of the 1970's where patients were subjected to "deep sleep" therapy, and the Chelmsford Royal Commission, established in the 1990's to
  • Cyclone -
    YCLONE.SOC brings together two contemporary phenomena: severe weather, the project uses weather data that charts the emergence and progress of hurricanes. the polarized nature of debate that occurs in certain online newsgroup forums. The
  • In 2009 we began a project with the British Antarctic Survey to explore how the data it derives from its research in the Southern Ocean could be redeployed in public forms. The project builds out from the conceptual themes achieved in our previous
  • die.txt -
    die.txt is a bio-engineered text editor. As the user types, individual words spawn outgrowths of alternative meanings and definitions. These metonyms are sucked from Wordnet, a lexical reference system developed by Princeton University.  
  • gameboy_ultraf_uk -
    The work consists of a Free Software Game Boy emulator whose rendering system has been (pathologically) rewritten to degenerate over time. Game entities mutate into background and interface elements, or appear as fragments of the games binary
  • Reconnoitre -
    Reconnoitre is part of an ongoing series of works concerned with our experience of the network as a bizarre_scape; an environment with a high metabolism whose boundaries are continuously re-shaped; accreting and thickening under the influence of
  • Gavin Baily Gavin studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (1990-93), and Computer Science at University College London (1996). His work with digital media has focused on developing conjunctions of software-based visualisation and the
  • Corby, Tom and Gavin Baily. Extra-Ordinary Practices In Extra-Ordinary Practices: A Retrospective of British Media Art, , 53-64. Dresden: 2006.