Dave Miller, Author at Art Portfolio

Author: Dave Miller

Dave Miller is a UK artist. His work is concerned with stories and activism. He experiments with computer-generated narratives, augmented reality, generative art and interactive storytelling. He is attracted by the immediacy of digital media, the creativity of coding and the aesthetics of digital imagery. Most of his works are activist, and reflect concerns about news, politics and economics. He is interested in theories on the aesthetics of protest, and also narrative composition. The intention of his work is political activism through visual communication.

Shirley Bassey Mixed Up (2006) is a generative art work – more accurately an experimental illustrated networked generative biography, covering the ups and downs of her life, successes and tragedies. The illustrations are network generated, built dynamically from Yahoo searches, and combined dynamically with my own drawings. Through specifying different searches and playing with the customisation options, readers can create a unique illustration for each page of the story, resulting in their own personalised version of the biography.

Pulling in data from the Internet and manipulating/ transforming it within a story, this work can be arguably be described as a networked narrative.

Link to the project

Unfortunately the project isn’t working properly right now, as PHP has been updated, and I will need to re-write the code.

Interactive story dealing with the tragedy of the chinese migrant workers who died in Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, in 2004. The interactive approach offers a non-linear way of exploring all of the issues, and each person has a different experience, and effectively creates their own story.

There are many separate and interconnected strands to this story: the experience of the workers, the bosses exploiting cheap work, the reactions of local people, the families in China, the media/political reactions and economics.

These strands are parallel narratives through the story. Each one is small view of the bigger picture, giving a different perspective. Each page of the story is an illustration.

Link to story

Unfortunately the project is no longer working properly, due to PHP being upgraded. I will need to re-write the code.