Chris Courage

Data driven activism

This critical art piece questions the eco-system of human infastrusture and environment. The installation is an interactive piece that interrogates recent sewage data released by water companies. The purpose of the piece is to experience the data not only count it.

Chris is a British artist, specifically a creative technologist. He has a background in CNC manufacturing and his current practice explores novel ways of experiencing data through physical computing. Themes which drive his creative practise are, environmental activism, the ocean and data visualisation. Most of Chris’s pieces have combined disciplines of computer vision, machine learning, data mining and physical computing. He has an undergraduate degree in Graphic Design, where Chris discovered a love for coding through experimenting with Arduinos. For the next three years, Chris will be researching creative technologies where he hopes to push the boundaries of digital manufacturing.