He works on open source software infrastructures for independent publishing—realtime, transcluded, transmedia, scalable and cloud-based.

He studied for an MFA in art at the California Institute of the Arts, USA in 1993 and at Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL (BA Hons) Fine Art 1989 – 1992. He attended Falmouth College of Art and Design, Falmouth, UK for an arts foundation in 1988. As of 2012 he has been a research associate of Leuphana University, Innovations-Inkubator, Centre for Digital Cultures, Germany, researching Open Source software infrastructures for scholarly publishing. As of 2014 he is also a research affiliate at the xm:lab, Academy of Fine Arts Saar, Saarbrücken, Germany. In 1994 he co-founded Mute magazine, heading its digital development, continuing as acting Director and editorial board member. Predominantly his practice takes the form of 'artistic design', knowledge creation through making. His most recent work came from a Technology Strategy Board (UK) research programme in metadata, with a project in 2011 to create a multi-format publishing conversion software, called 'Progressive Publishing System'. As of 2012 he has built on this earlier research, forming a research network, the 'Hybrid Publishing Consortium' looking at wider publishing workflows and applying computation to find new forms of scalable publishing beyond the codex and reliance on text as the dominant form of knowledge production inspired by Alan Kay’s DynaBook and Ted Nelson's Xanadu project.