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  • My work is based on research into the phenomenological nature of visual perception. The emphasis is on reframing the relationship between traditional fine art media and the ever increasing possibilities of digital media. The artworks reflect upon
  • Thalamus -
    'Thalamus' is a simple user led environment designed for DATA projection into a gallery space where the user navigates the work with a mouse or slider set on a plinth placed squarely infront of the projection. The piece uses a metronome scale as a
  • Triggerhappy -
    Triggerhappy is a gallery installation whose format will be familiar to anyone who has encountered that early arcade game, Space Invaders combining an absurd quest for information with an old-fashioned shoot-em-up computer game. In this, it
  • Signals -
    Realtime recordings of persons using their mouse are layered ontop of each other, divorced from their original context and then projected back into the gallery as an endless looping animation. The resulting monochromatic animation goads the viewer
  • Speaking in tongues -
    Speaking in Tongues is a gallery based environment examining Our relationship with narrative and dataflow invisibly coursing through our environment all the time space where all manner of wireless transmission augments our Spheres of Influence while
  • CNN INTERACTIVE JUST -
    A specially commissioned gallery installation for, Art & money Online held at Tate, Britain in March 2001 and curated by Julian Stallabrass -based on our webwork http://www.cnnextra.net In CNN Interactive just got more interactive artists Jon
  • The ToyBox -
    The ToyBox was a project developed as part of Video Positive 95. The piece was an anthology of artist's works contained on a CD-ROM, published and sold during the festival in Liverpool. Each artist was asked to respond to the idea of creating a
  • SHORT BIO Jon Thomson (b. 1969) and Alison Craighead (b. 1971) are artists living and working in London. They make artworks and installations for galleries, online and sometimes outdoors. Much of their recent work looks at live networks like the
  • Archer, Michael and Julian Stallabrass. Thomson and Craighead Minigraph. London, UK: Film and Video Umbrella, 2005.
  • Real Time. Art en temps real Arts Santa Mònica 28.01 – 10.04.2016 Artists: Guillem Bayo, Clara Boj i Diego Díaz, Martin John Callanan, Grégory Chatonsky, Thierry Fournier, Varvara Guljajeva i Mar Canet, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Nicolas Maigret, Katie