Artist Statement 

Exhibition Art & Computers

I am interested in the computer as providing a range of media in the visual arts, and in particular in fine art. As computer scientist I am developing new tools for computer artists which my students at the City of London Polytechnic use on a daily basis in their work. At certain periods I am able to use the tools that I have created in my own work.

This involves a shift of mode from the logical and problem-solving requirements of programming to the intuitive and inspirational frame of mind. Visually my pieces are (for myself) something related to music or dance. One of the attractions of computer art for me is the relative lack of history, reference and framework within which to place it, and hence a freedom of expression which is intrinsic rather than having to be asserted.

• Mike King (UK), born 1953. Studied at the Oxford Polytechnic, BSc Honours in Physics and Chemistry. Masters Degree in Software Engineering from Oxford University. Master’s dissertation: “Formal Methods in Computer Graphics for Film and TY”. Studied for PhD at the Royal College of Art, London. Subject of research: user interface to computer graphics in the visual arts. Won 2 prizes for entries in competitions organised by the Computer Arts Society. Took up a research fellowship at the John Cass Faculty of Arts in the City of London Polytechnic. Exhibited in London, Bristol & Exeter computer art exhibitions at Imperial. [For an interview with King see https://digitalartmuseum.org/essays/king01.html]