JAMES PATERSON

It was only when Flash 2 was introduced in 1997, that James Paterson realised his computer could be more than a toy to play games on. He taught himself how to create images from code and then to use the computer "like a sketchbook".

Born in London in 1980, Paterson moved to Canada at the age of eight and studied print-making at art school there until he dropped out to live in New York where he launched his presstube site. For the past two years he has also collaborated with Amit Pitaru, a jazz pianist-turned-programmer, on their insertsilence site.

Their collaboration, which includes occasional commercial commissions such as the Pagan Poetry project for Bjork, continues with Paterson living in Montreal and Pitaru in New York.

See James Paterson's work at:
http://www.insertsilence.com
http://www.presstube.com

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