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p-tex is a multimedia and sonic artist who explores and has an interest in how mans involvement with machines affects the way we are and will become. Other explorations include frequency, globalisation, capitalism, hyper-realities, transaprency, autonomy and. p-tex specialsies in combining software and various technologies in his work with recent projects utilising Linux and open-source software.

Jason is BA graduate of the University of Central Lancashire in Multimedia and Sonic Arts. In may 04 p-tex had his CD Rom "Zap Zone - a hyper reality" displayed at the Preston Arts Festival 04. Jason has recently fulfilled a commission for folly.co.uk. for their Grow Your Own Media Lab project. (see below). Jason has also achieved a HND in music production and gained a B-tec National Diploma at Preston College in music technology.

He also works in the facilitation of other artists in their work such as Maggy and Boris Howarth, Janette Ireland and is currently employed as assistant technical stage manager for Ludus Dance. More recently in October 06 Jason worked as technical installation assistant at the f.city festival for folly.co.uk. as well as a volunteer during the exhibition.

In August 06 p-tex gained a commission for the GYOML in a field project for access-space and folly.co.uk. For this installation/performance p-tex hacked a USB games joypad by wiring various sensors to it, allowing natures elements to control and modulate software patches created in pure-data, an open source data streaming software. Jason has also attended a series of workshops on FLOSS (free libre open source software)ran at the Canteen in Barrow, as part of the GYOML projects - such as; fluxus a real time code grahic software, blender a free 3d animation software, processing, pure-data and the goto10 linux based operating system pure-dyne, this is a specially developed Linux operating system for audio and video artists. In June he attended the folly summer school of sound at More Music in Morecambe, which was a pure-data workshop with ixi-software.