Summary
Alex 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