Technology has always been the gateway to the unknown frontier; digital space is not a tool or a medium, it is the invisible unreality that is waiting to be found.

In the misty days some time around the millennium I had the notion I would like to make my own website. However, being six years old and not knowing much about anything that idea would take sixteen years and a degree in Computer Science to be realised, then fast forward another 5 years to get to now.

My work is heavily inspired by the myth of early technology, ‘80s CGI and the ‘90s web, a messy, inexplicable place, full of unknown possibilities and innocent ideals. The folk revival of the web is still out of sight but very much in reach. I see it as an antidote to the miasma the internet has become today, or at least a promise that tomorrow can be better.

For my dissertation I examined the design of Metaverses, or the sum of many interconnected virtual worlds. These other worldly places seem to be the natural destination of the current enthusiasm for making digital spaces and I dread and applaud their potential in equal measure.