/ Animation & Media Art

After studying Computer Science at the University of Wales (2001–2003), I moved into animation and video art. Since 2008 I have worked under the name bestbefore on animation, music videos, live visuals and audiovisual performances — shown at the Athens Concert Hall, the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Moscow Biennale and on the London Underground screens, with commissions for IRCAM – Centre Pompidou and the Onassis Foundation.

/ Live & Large-Scale Projection

I like my images big and live: drawn while the band is still playing, stretched across a 300 m² dome, poured onto a 10×10 m floor, or mapped onto walls until they start to dance.

/ Interaction & Code

I’m interested in images that react — to people, to sound, to space. For Black Flow I built a physics engine in Max that lets live sound push gravity, bounce and density through a 10×10 m floor projection — published on Cycling ’74. I build my own real-time tools for this: patches in Max/MSP Jitter that listen to music and turn it into movement, and small programs in Java and C++. The interactive table at BYOB Prague (2014), the animation experiments of Free Radicals with piano and electronics, and my live sets with musicians all come from the same idea: animation that is not fixed, but alive and responding in the moment. I enjoy the whole path — from a first sketch on paper to a working piece in the room. These days I write a lot of code — building my own little apps and tools. Sometimes they end up making images move.

/ Unplugged

Alongside animation I paint walls and canvases — the same playful, spontaneous approach to images, by hand and in large format.

/ Network

I collaborate with composers, musicians and artists worldwide. If your project needs images that move, play and surprise — let’s talk.