Biography

Alex May is a British contemporary artist whose work explores how we remember and how technology changes what we keep, what we lose, and what we think is real. Working across moving image, photography, sculpture, sound, and computational processes, he creates artworks that connect human experience with systems of recording, preservation, and transformation.

His international exhibition profile includes Ars Electronica, LABoral, IMPAKT, FACT, Furtherfield, WRO Media Art Biennale, HeK, the Francis Crick Institute, Bletchley Park, the Eden Project, Science Gallery Dublin, Science Gallery Bengaluru, ZHI Art Museum, and the Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine.

May has given talks on digital art, art/science collaboration, digital preservation, and public engagement with social robotics through art at venues including UCLA, USC, the School of Visual Arts in New York, the University of Colorado Boulder, SUNY, TEDx Bucharest, Chelsea College of Arts, and Waag Society in Amsterdam. He has also led workshops for artists using his own software, including at UCLA, Concordia University in Montreal, and ISEA in Istanbul, and gave the 2012 Christmas Lecture for the Computer Arts Society.

He has been Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire since 2011. He previously taught on the Digital Media Arts MA at the University of Brighton and the University of Hertfordshire. He is also Head of Projective Geometry at the Institute of Unnecessary Research