The DRU International Residency Programme for media arts practitioners brings both UK and international practitioners to join our growing creative community. Residents have 24/7 access to the DRU studio in The Media Centre, where they concentrate on the research and development needed to explore and progress their practice.

May - Oct 2003
ap: [Martin Howse and Jonathan Kemp]
project: fm01
Url: http://fm01.druh.co.uk

fm01 will offer a total software environment for the semi-automated production, scripting and editing of endless cinema.

fm01 transposes non-metaphoric systems and grammar theory (of computer languages, abstraction and data containers) to the realm of expanded cinema. a relational, nodal language of connection will be formulated to descend through levels of scene, shot and frame (stored and to be shot). visual and syntactical analysis software will form a large part of the fm01 engine.

fm01 is not totally automated and in parallel with ap03 (apOS) forms a mechanism of personal insertion into systematics. fm01 is not conceived as an engine for the manipulation of generic clips (an expanding database of all possible scenes categorised according to a huge number of elements and relations) but rather offers an enmeshing within script, data streams and environment. fm01 is a large-scale project which builds on previous ap research and process to push the envelope of what can be achieved in terms of computer languages and data visualisation; a re-thinking hard-wired notions of input and output.


Martin Howse
Artist, programmer, theorist and film-maker. Born United Kingdom 1969. Founded ap (artificial paradises) in 1998 to produce and explore performative and distributed artistic software investigating issues of physical data manifestation and generation within a free software context. Martin Howse has performed and collaborated worldwide using custom software and hardware modules for data/code processing and generation. He currently also writes regularly for Linux/free software publications and has partipated in related conferences and workshops.


Jonathan Kemp
Born UK 1962. Educated in Philosophy, Jonathan Kemp has organised and collaborated across various fields in art, design, and science, exhibited in various shows and performances in UK, USA, and Europe (video, performance, speculative design, data processing, copyleft), and has participated in open source and sci-art based residencies (Germany and Spain). Since 2001, he has been a collaborator with Martin Howse on various ap projects.