Alex May
Visiting Lecturer at University of Hertfordshire
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlex May is a British digital artist and visiting lecturer with over a decade of experience creating algorithmic photography, generative works, interactive installations, video projection mapping and social robotics. He codes his own software for installations and humanoid robot performances, bridging creative practice with technical research in adaptive systems. His work is held in permanent collections and has been exhibited and presented widely—from Tate Modern and Ars Electronica to TEDx and university symposia—demonstrating fluency across art, science and public engagement. As Visiting Research Fellow in the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire he explores artificial life, robot companions and complex systems alongside teaching digital media at Brighton. Notably, he runs workshops using custom tools he develops, combining practitioner-led pedagogy with hands-on software development.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
homebrew10
visual-programming10
video-codec7
codec5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bigfug/fugio-portmidi
Mar 2024 - Jan 2026
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
bigfug/fugio-api
Oct 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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