Habbo Hotel is an online 'toon' chat environment http://www.habbohotel.com . Onde Fica was a room within the Hotel, run by 'Liquid'. Every Wednesay for 9 weeks, habbos (residents) would fill the room for an hour and give performances in the Onde Fica performance space - the worlds first chat room performance space. The last Onde Fica was run as a live broadcast at a nightclub in the East End.
"Firewall" was a digital game research proposal looking at the use of the videogame as a socialogical tool. It was commissioned by Proboscis as part of the Private Reveries Public Spaces project.
Creative partnership comprising the writer Caroline Smith and myself. Ran from 2000 to 2002 during which time I developed online games and solutions for clients such as Warner Brothers, Take2, Gullane, Unwired Stuff
My means of aquiring the best video games and consoles for 4 years as Mute magazines games editor. Games related writings and rantings from the Pilot issue to an Interview with Peter Molyneux in issue 15
See also Metamute
Conceived and produced one of the first major online viral campaigns for Take2/Rockstar: a two-stranded story that unfolded through teasers and online game fragments working directly with Rockstar's President Dan Hauser. Resulted in the hiring of an internet detective (it's a long story...).
Video game installation at eh ICA that included a customised Quake level based on the ICA. Highlight of the show was seeing Sir Norman and Lady Foster fragging each other in a side-by-side Quake2 deathmatch - which they both unsurprisingly enjoyed.
Collaborated with 7 artists in 1996 to develop and produce the UK's first games-based CD ROM by artists. This was shown on arcade machines in 8 major UK galleries including the Institute of Contemporary Arts and was sold to the Museum of Modern Art, NY. With artists: Pete Anderson, Fiona Banner, Clio Barnard, Adam Chodzko, Matthew Higgs, Georgina Starr and Suzanne Treister.
The first 19 years of my life in a series of 27 text pieces - Text based Installation exhibited in London and Brooke Alexander in NY. Also developed as a digital project for Artifice digital magazine.
Founded and ran Ultraluxe Publications to publish and distribute artists books and digital artworks. Published 7 artists books and 2 digital artworks which are in the V&A, MOMA, the Tate and collections in Europe and Australia.
