Hi my name is Antonio Roberts and I'm in Artists, Hacker, Curator and Media Artists Code Programmer and whatever I should come think of and I'm based in Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Today I'm going to give a very short presentation about my artwork, the processes involved and how it kind of came to be where it is today. So having finished my studies at Staffs University and Modern Media Graphics in 2007, I came back to Birmingham thinking to myself where are all the creative coders, where are people who mix sort of art and technology, did they gather in one big space or are they all happily spread around the West Midlands? So rather than wait for some, wait around for someone to do this. In 2009 I started at the Fisbert Hacker Space with Artist Nicky Pugh. Hacker Space is like an open garage of lots of tools with anyone with an interest in creative coding or programming general can just learn and collaborate with others. The projects range from usual circuit bending to software hacking. And over the two years at Iran it was largely successful. We had our visits from lots of famous scientists including Mitch Outman and got lots of support from local art groups including Fivid, Friction Arts and Hello Digital. And I guess really the thing that I like about Hacker Space's and Fisbert is when this kind of thing happens. But the moment where through lots of dedication and hacking, a light switches on both on the circuit board and someone's brain. Now to this this is a very, to most people this is a very trivial task. But to those who maybe not even know how to program them microwave that alone a circuit board, this is a truly inspiring moment. And it was for me too. Having lots of people to bounce around ideas off, brought me to a point where I was questioning the things around me. How do they work? Why do they work in this way? And how can I change them to work in a different way? So through the suggestion of a friend, I was introduced to Glitch Art which I feel combines this love of hacking and taking things apart as well as visual art on screens. Now Glitch Art is the turning of errors into art. There's no doubt in using your time through your time using computers. You've encountered something like this and you've used it right to fix it or discard it and try again and make it work. The Glitch Art is likes to seat those hours out and make it into art. For me Glitch Art is really about deconstructing everything and figuring out how computers work. Now computers are quite stupid and you tell them to do something and they will do it no matter what and that command is. And computers don't really can't really tell what type of data away from a never. So for example in this, you can tell a program that the audio data is actually in a piece of image data and you can import it into a piece of software and display an audio file as an image. Now I'm not alone in my quest to find Glitches and presentmen as errors. In 2010, the Glitch Arts Festival in Chicago became one of the first to focus purely on art created through errors. It featured contributions from artists all over the world and saw people from across the US and further afield myself included. Come together for a week of ideas and skill sharing. I like this idea of gathering and usually internet based artists so much that the following year in 2007, it helped bring the festival to Birmingham. In 2011 with the support of Arts Council England, Birmingham's his university, Vivid and Fispar, Glitch came to Birmingham. Like the previous festival, it had a week of or so a day of workshops, presentations, film screenings and performances. Now this represented a pivotal moment in my artistic career. There's usually quite distorted and quite frankly geeky practice and we've seen a lot of support from and credibility from a range of institutions but more importantly family friends and people who if you didn't understand it took the time to learn more about it. The dispute of Glitch Arts though isn't new, a Google search reveal tens of thousands of articles and millions of images around the subject. Even artists like Kanye West, Dizzy Rascal have been using the utilising Glitch Arts in their work since 2009. Now it seems like the conversations moved from how it's made to why would you want to do it. I'm personally interested in how Glitch Arts can help understand ways in which you communicate messages. So if we can take words, symbols and images out of the usual context and deconstruct them, do they still have the same meaning? How much do we before we destroy an image does it lose its original meaning and gains something new? So for example, logos which are the driving force of products and the things that we use and buy, what if they were distorted in a way and deconstructed from a legal standpoint are these new logos the same as the old logos. In this next piece entitled What Revolution I've taken the image out of Che Guevara and distorted it to the point where it's almost lost all its meaning. Now this is more of a commentary on how his face has become since before a long time not an image of revolution and protest but just another fashion statement. My upcoming project Comic Sans must die is a tongue-in-cheek look at how the most hated fans in the world can expand. What does it point to start being Comic Sans when it's deconstructed? By doing so, by doing this deconstruction, do we reveal some sort of hidden design element? Is it more valid as a piece of animated design while then it is a font? Now these are only a handful of the projects that I've done in my time but hopefully they some reveal to some use something about my process and ways in which I like working and how it's brought me to be in front of you today. But I guess one theme amongst all of my artwork is that of collaboration. Now it sounds kind of cheesy but knowledge is indeed power but I think it's more powerful when it's shared. May of the projects that I've done would have not happened where it not for the kindness of people who've spent years learning how to do things and then sharing my shape. I hope to do the same. I hope to do the same. I hope to do the same. Music and to my website, I'm going to talk to a twitter. Any more of these editors? Graham Shalani in that.