About
Ashley James Brown
Aged 32
Digital Media Artist
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I am a sound and digital media artist based in Coventry. I work with a variety of technologies and digital medium to create interactive installations and games. The relationship between physical form and digital code of how the abstract imperceptible world combines with the senses is something that fascinates me and drives my work. Digital art for me is about combining code and aesthetics with engagement and enjoyment through a physical sense.
My work has spanned music and sound production, interactive and digital art installations, iOS development, mobile and locative based augmented experiences and electronic instrument creation. I work collaboratively with other artists to combine disciplines to further broaden my artistic development.
My past clients include traditional gallery contexts (touch installation – The Public), heritage sites (interactive sound installation – York Minster), public sector organisations (interactive interface and installation – Manchester Children’s Hospital), UK arts organisations (MAC, Mercurial Arts, Imagine Theatre) and non-traditional (Void Spaces in Leicester) along with international venues such as Warsaw Zachenta National Art Gallery in Poland.
I also work extensively with young people through educational programmes either within school or as part of workshops to provide extended learning. Schools such as Hadley Learning Centre (HLC) were enthused and ambitious to become the leading school in the region through their innovate use of having artistic practitioners lead ground breaking and challenging workshops for their pupils. I received an Arts Council award for my work within HLC.
All of my clients were keen to widen audience participation and to test new business models by using digital and social media to engage. Some of my commissions increased visitor footfall while others encouraged repeated visitors as well as exciting new audiences.
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Hello World : This is the very first tutorial used to learn any new programming language. It enables the user to get an instant result using simple syntax to demonstrate that the program works.
“Hello World” is the first program one usually writes when learning a new programming language. The first Hello World program appeared in chapter 1.1 of the first edition of Kernighan & Ritchie’s original book about C, “The C Programming Language”, in 1978 (the year I was born) and read like this:
main() {
printf(“hello, world\n”);
}
Since then, Hello World has been implemented in just about every programming language on the planet.
Wikipedia says : this
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I set up ’helloworld’ to showcase all of my work which covers many varying topics; however all are closely linked with digital media, technology and computer programming of some kind. Just like the hello world program this portal gives you instant insight into my work and who I am.
I graduated from Coventry University in 2000 with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, having previously studied at college for 2 years and extra lessons in GCSE for another 2 years prior to that.
My fascination with code and data began back in 1990 where i spent many hours working on my Sinclair Spectrum ZX +3 128k machine coding simple games. It wasn’t until 95 that my dad was able to afford a Pentium PC and i embarked into college that i was able to extend my knowledge and utilise many of the languages available. I studied COBOL, Turbo PASCAL and C+ and our college was one of many that know had a lovely Netscape Navigator icon on the desktop enabling me to open up the vast information out on the web. Through University i studied JAVA, TCL/TK, C++ and Visual BASIC. After graduating in 2000 and surviving the Millennium Bug I became bored with working in Microsoft ACCESS making databases and I set out to realise my dream in running a record label.
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