Non-commercial projects

Non-commercial projects

A wide range of non-commercial, creative and related projects – spanning music, community, art, astronomy, streaming, activism and performance.

Projects
Binary Dust music
Music – Binary Dust binarydust.org

Combining a broad organic aesthetic with contemporary electronic soundscapes and structures over the past 20 years.

Acoustic CosmologyBinary Dust
Hermitage Community Moorings
Hermitage Community Moorings hcmoorings.org

Co-founder and resident of a historic harbour near Tower Bridge in London, encouraging the use and preservation of historic and traditional river craft.

CommunityArchitectureSustainable livingVessels
EXEQUO
EXEQUO exequo.org

A non-profit streaming network, helping RinseFM, ResonanceFM, Christian Aid, Undercurrents and AmbientTV. Promoting the development of open networks, open-source software, open data, and Creative Commons licensing.

StreamingOpen networksVideoAudio
RT32 telescope, Latvia
Acoustic Space: RT32 dgen.net/astro/rt32

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the conversion of the RT32 telescope at VIRAC, Riga and Irbene, Latvia. A collaboration between VIRAC, RIXC and r a d i o q u a l i a.

Radio astronomyElectronic musicEducationStreaming
Ulyana Gumeniuk painting
Ulyana Gumeniuk ulyanagumeniuk.com

Trinity College artist in residence, BP National Portrait Gallery Travel Award winner, and decade-long Dgen collaborator. Ulyana is a Ukrainian-born painter, trained at St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Art and at St. Martins College in London. “Her work has echoes of Titian, Goya and the bawdy earthiness of Hogarth, all put into a modern context.” – Angela Lambert

Contemporary-classical paintingNational Portrait Gallery
Makrolab, Blair Atholl

A self-sustaining research Earth Observatory combining Media, Science and Art. Makrolab brings together diverse people from around the world to facilitate and focus dialogue and research. Report from the 2002 installation in Blair Atholl, Scotland.

Earth ObservatoryCross-media communicationSustainable architecture
TeleJam03 AmbientTV performance
TeleJam03 / TRyPTiCHON dgen.net/galleries/dmz_gallery

An AmbientTV.net project: a wandering wireless performance in London, UK. 11am-6pm, 14-15 November 2003.

GPSCollaborative AV performance
AV Dinners
AV Dinners ambienttv.net

An AmbientTV.net project. Live mixture of real-time chat, eating, cooking, video and audio manipulation, poetry and multiple-choice streaming. 17 July 2003, 4pm-11pm BST. Also exhibited at the Edinburgh Fringe and Ladyfest in Bristol.

FoodPoetryMusicWebcasting
RIXC Art+Communication festival
Media Architecture dgen.net/rixc

The 6th International ART+COMMUNICATION festival: a series of events from 15-18 May 2003 in Riga, Latvia, Karosta, Liepaja and at the VIRAC Radio Telescope in Irbene.

Information NetworksPost-modern Architectonics
Act for Tibet
Act for Tibet actfortibet.com

Direct-action website for those interested in learning more about issues in Tibet.

Direct-actionEducationCultural exchange
Neshama live performance ICA

Live performance at the ICA, London in November 2002. Live creation of visuals to accompany renowned Israeli musician Moshikop.

Multimedia performanceLive image processing
Spy School Tel Aviv
‘Spy School’ dgen.net/spyschool

Working with AmbientTV.net on the opening performance of the first Israeli Video Arts festival in Tel Aviv, October 2002. Combining live DJ, VJ and dancing with hidden microphones and cameras.

Multimedia performanceArt-tech
Volunteering in China
Volunteering in China dgen.net/china

A mixed-media diary of the Xian Du International Volunteers Workcamp on Culture and Environmental Protection (Xiandu Township, Jinyun county, Zhejiang province, China, 1-10 April 1999).

EnvironmentEducationCultural Exchange
Optical astronomy
Web-based Optical Astronomy schoolsobservatory.org.uk

The National Schools’ Observatory is a major web-based resource allowing UK schools to use world-class astronomical telescopes around the world by remote control. Bringing cutting-edge science and technology into the classroom.

AstronomyEducationOpen Science
Resonance FM
Resonance FM resonancefm.com

Streamed this arts-only radio station for free for 5 years.

StreamingOpen networksRadio
Save the Moorings
Save Downings Road Moorings – saved! savethemoorings.org.uk

An active floating community closely interwoven with the fabric of the local area. Under threat of eviction from Southwark Council – the public hearing ran 5-15 July 2004. Southwark lost.

CommunityArchitectureSustainable living

See also: commercial work and the full archive