DAVE EVERITT

When I first returned to making art in 1996 after a gap of around 15 years (I had suspended coloured drawing for writing between 1985-1996) I thought about creating a multimedia piece based on some of the written material I'd then working on-drafts of written work as a mutating image with the text as a spoken soundtrack; starting off garbled but gradually becoming clearer, accompanied by a montage of the environments in which I worked, with clickable details (I still like the idea). But I was aware that new digital art (it was known as "media art" for awhile) was already being produced in two main formats: multimedia work with strong personal content, and impressive Shockwave, Flash or JavaScript web material with high graphic content often referencing the machines on which it was created. I didn't want to work in a similar way, so decided to explore the roots of art-technology, and also pick up some threads left dangling after my Fine Art degree, parts of which which involved the..

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