My solo work is concerned with the relationship between sound, space and the imaginary. I am interested in the presentation of sound as a medium, its relationship to physical and non-physical objects, and its power to engage us in an emotional way through memory or by evocation.
I curated the sound art show 'Sonic Art' in the Brighton Festival Fringe 2009, and am a regular collaborator with experimental band Spacedog and eco-art group Circus Kinetica. After graduating from Sussex University with an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems in 2004, I worked for a year at the University of Hertfordshire as a robotics researcher, and I currently lecture in Digital Art at Brighton University and work as an arts technologist.
Research Publications
Michael P Blow, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Andrew Appleby, Chrystopher Nehaniv, David Lee (2006) Perception of Robot Smiles and Dimensions for Human-Robot Interaction Design. Proc. The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN06).
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Michael P Blow, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Andrew Appleby, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, David Lee, The Art of Designing Robot Faces - Dimensions for Human-Robot Interaction, Proc. AMC/IEEE HRI06, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2006, pp. 331 - 332.
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Michael P Blow, Stigmergy: Biologically-inspired Robotic Art, Proc. AISB 2005, Hatfield, UK 2005
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Michael P Blow, There Does Not, in Fact, Appear to Be a Plan: A Collaborative Experiment in Creative Robotics, Proc. AISB 2005, Hatfield, UK 2005
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MSc. Creative Artificial Intelligence paper: "An Investigation into Aesthetic Preference using Generative Art."
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