About

Andrew McWilliams is a British artist who creates immersive installation environments manipulating software, projected light and sound. He has a background and interest in commercial software development which influences his work, and has shown work in India, Holland and the UK.

In 2004 Andrew graduated with a 1st-class BSc in Software Engineering from Northampton University (UK), having previously studied arts to gain a BTEC National Diploma in Illustration and Information Graphics. He worked for five years as a professional software developer in the new media field, maintaining a separate interest in image, video and music composition.

Around 2008 Andrew began to merge the two fields: experimenting with realtime, software-driven media composition in an installation context. The resulting works are very physically present, unlike the virtual often associated with software. However they are also ephemeral and non-repeatable, and often some mixture of generative and interactive.

Andrew has run workshops at Goldsmiths Digital Studios, and Jaaga Creative Common Ground, and has collaborated with Ricardo Carvalho and the V4W collective. In 2011 he completed a 3-month residency at Jaaga Creative Common Ground in Bangalore, India, and presented work in the 'Sound & Lights' exhibition. He was the winner of the 'Patch Slam' competition at Alpha-Ville 2011, and was invited by the V4W collective to collaborate on site-specific work in Holland (Threshold).

Andrew's focus in his work is on the nature of human/object value, and how technologically-mediated interventions can reveal information or establish connections with a physical space.

Andrew currently lives and works in London, UK.