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gary-martin is a sound artist, designer, and electronic musician. he is interested in systems of production and consumption, and their ecological entanglement. shaped by perspectives on new materialism, access-first design, and bad environmentalism, his social practice spans participatory art, critical making, and practice research.

for over a decade he has facilitated creative projects with young people across Wales, and partners like Cadw, The King's Trust, Shakespeare’s Globe, and Tate.

he is a Pervasive Media Studio resident and a creative producer with pyka, where he develops interactive sound tools and experiences. he is also a lecturer in the school of creative arts at the University of Gloucestershire where he manages releases on Parkland Records and his teaching focuses on critical practice in relation to networked cultures and political ecology.

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hello reader, this post marks the return of me using a blog to track professional/creative/(some)personal actvities, keeping all my actvitiy on my site. this site/blog is a single html file that I will update via Github desktop app. I spent hours looking into various CMS systems and external/3rd party apps with different interfaces, but to be honest, I found them all to be that tiny bit too much effort to use regularly. what I really wanted was the ease of posting on Tumblr circa 2010, but without the fear of my blog disappearing if it went through another acquistion or MySpace style cull. so after trialling a few systems, I've gone for what feels like the option that offers the least friction for me to post updates and thoughts, and that's just editing this little html file on my laptop.

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