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I’m Gareth. I’m an accidental developer. I never dreamt or intended to be a developer but have found myself in this role. One of my friends who has a similar working life is a Creative Technologist. I think the differences between our roles entitles him to this stature. Maybe these differences (among other things) are why i’m now taking a Masters in Interactive Media. I’m not quite sure what the other things are yet but perhaps I will reveal them to myself during the two years of my course which I will be documenting to one degree or another here at NotFig.

McGurk Effect 1

After a conversation about one of our speakers (sounds artist – Joe Banks), I was told about an interesting phenomenen called the McGurk effect. This suggests that speech perception is multimodal, i.e. our brain interprets the sounds from both visual and audio stimulus. Watch and listen to the following video once and then a second [...]

Coin Laundry Ecology 1

The first practical methods project I am undertaking on MA Interactive Media involves observing and recording the Media Ecology of a coin laundry / launderette with the aim of intervening or interfering with this ecology using art methodologies and / or a data jam. A data jam is an event composed of people passing, digesting [...]