Fraser Chapman

Culture Shock formed the hub of the Arts and Cultural Strand of the nationwide Spirit of Friendship festival, in the build up to the XVII Commonwealth Games. Cultureshock produced a groundbreaking programme encompassing a broad range of exciting work that presented refreshingly contemporary understandings of the Commonwealth. The festival included over 200 fantastic events by North West artists and promoters in collaboration with national and international partners. Cultureshock documented and creatively interpreted events across England's northwest in 2002.

I was lucky enough to be commissioned by cheryl Martin (artist in residence) to produce a number of animations to illustrate her work. The animations were based on photographs by Matt Squire (artist in residence) and the music was produced by Tim Browne and Arun Gosh.

Seahorses in the Kalahari

Inktank was established in September 2002. It is an ongoing collective of artists and designers that are involved in various projects. A quarterly magazine, INKTANK, is also published.

"Our artists have a vast amount of experience within the creative industries and are able to meet any design challenges. Inktank is a dedicated collective of artists determined to bring you the most innovative creative work of its time." Founder/Artist Ben Pepper.

Inktank

This flash based 'drag-and-drop' gallery was designed to be a permanent record of the video work from the 2004 degree show.

Its main feature is the custom video player component. This is a prototype component written in ActionScript® and XML. The component automatically 'grabs' FLV files from the server and generates the rollover thumbnails from them. The 'right-click-functionality' is also a proto-type component I have developed. You can try out the player by visiting the link below

IA:MMU video Gallery

The New Academy Gallery opened in 1978 as part of the Royal Academy. Each year, since 1987, they have held the 'Northern Graduates' exhibition. The 2004 exhibition was composed of work selected from a broad range of arts courses at 16 Northern universities. I exhibited 5 paintings selected from a series produced for my degree show.

"There is a great deal of contemporary work out there that sits within recognisable genres. We selected work that represents the best of its type, or is an interesting divergence from the expected - such as Fraser Chapman's white paintings." - Karen Lyons (co-curator 2004)

New Academy Gallery :: Northern Graduates 2004 :: Catalogue Text

Adidas Originals UK Launch (2004) Artwork commissioned for the launch of the flag ship Adidas Originals store, Manchester. The brief for this work was to produce original art work based on the theme of 'Manchester Heroes'. The heroes included here are Roy Chadwick (designer of the Lancaster Bomber) and Kenneth Wolstenholme (voice of the 1966 World Cup final).

Inktank

A series of nine paintings, in oils. I like to call these works 'portraits of objects'. The series depicts discarded items, found in the ginnels and back-allies off Manchester. Unwanted, abandoned and decaying. These objects are house-hold-less goods, their off-white rows laid out in dingy paths like a department store of the damned.

The series has been exhibited a number of times, notably in Manchester city center at the Temisis Gallery and at the New Academy Gallery, Fitzrovia, London.

The Interactive Arts Forum was I project I started whilst studying in Manchester. The forum provides an online space for student tutor interaction. As well as providing an area for students to present and discuss their own work, the forum also servers as a structured area to discuss other ideas and events.

The forum is based on upb1.9.6 using TextDB2.0. This program and database are cooperatively developed by PHP outburst, a Californian based open source development initiative. From Dec 2004 to 2006 I worked as a core developer for PHP outburst, in my spare time, developing administration features and functions.

Interactive Arts discussion forums :: Myupb at PHP outburst

This is a personal site for a Film maker based in Manchester, the design emulates existing printed material. The main feature of the site is the XML driven video gallery. This gallery has many features, including; Automatic thumbnail creation from FLV files, Infinite scrolling menu and Web based administration & configuration.

fionacampbell.co.uk

The 'FTPemu' application allows a user to perform many common FTP functions via their browser. This project evolved from a version which used PHP's inbuilt FTP/Exec functions to establish an FTP connection to a remote server. Version two differs in that it uses PHP's file functions to emulate an FTP application on the host server. In this version all dialog between the application and server takes the form of Sha1 hashes passed as asynchronous HTTP requests.

Using this application allows safe site administration and file management through any browser that supports Flash player version >=8. This is particular useful when an FTP application cannot be installed or when giving out FTP details is impractical. It is easy to restrict locations, file types, and rename rules, user rights, and functions to specific needs.

It features; file archiving and compression, recursive chmod functions, context sensitive right-click-functionality, tree structured navigation, a local and remote logging system, Themes and layouts, graphical icons, and much more. If you would like, you can try out a 'sandbox' version of the application by visiting the link below. This version has some functions disabled and will only allow image files.

PFTP (sandbox) - un:f pw:f

The Imaage lookup is a proprietary search engine that uses googles image search to display a string of images from a given sentence. This started life as a script which was used to make a music video for a friends band. After coding the original it sat in a directory for a while until I decided to revive it, give it a interface and put it on the web. The image here was produced using the first verse to 'Seven Ages Of Man' by William Shakespeare.

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players, They have their exits and entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages."

Immage - NEW!

This commercial web site was developed in a free-lance capacity for Dinosaur. I was responsible for the database design and front end functionality. The main points of interest are the 'Interactive map' and '3d floor plan navigation' both of which are written in AS2.0.

Argent, the developer responsible for the Hub, is widely regarded as the leader in city centre regeneration. They have won numerous awards for their work at One Piccadilly Gardens and have been a driving force in the rejuvenation of central Manchester. They are founding members of the Piccadilly Partnership, a public/private sector alliance.

The Hub Manchester

Wiring is an open project initiated by Hernando Barragan (University of Los Andes | Architecture and Design School). Wiring started life at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy and it is currently developed at the University of Los Andes in Colombia. I have contributed tutorials to the project that cover basic IO serial communication with Wiring via c#.

The project is still in the BETA stages but there are still some excellent projects that use the device. If you want to know more about Wiring or the Wiring IO Board are then have a look at the site www.wiring.org.co or you can view my Wiring Play Ground

The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. The open source library of controls I have developed extend this by allowing one to embed the Google Earth Plug-in in windows applications.

I developed this project in the hope that it would be useful to people wishing to integrate the Api in to their own applications. To date over 2,500 people have downloaded the controls for use in their projects. After first releasing the controls in December 2008 I was asked to join the Google Guru Program and was very happy to be made the first official Google Earth API Guru.

If you would like to know more about the plug-in please see the Google Earth Api site. If you would like to see the project, or use the library, it is hosted on Google Code

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