Hand-made, with pixels.

My name is David Upton, and I am a computational artist, with an MA from Goldsmith’s College in London.

This website is set up to sell some images that I am producing, and to explain what they are and why I am making them.

You can see the images in the Gallery section of thIs site. The Blog section sets out some of my thoughts and experiences whilst developing this practice.

You will receive a professional quality image, printed by Printspace in London. They use a higher quality of fade-resistant, archival, pigment-based inks, applied to high quality archival substrates, like, for example, the Hahnemühle cotton-based, acid free Rag papers used in my prints. Printspace forward your print rapidly and reliably, directly to you, with a certificate of authenticity.

The result of my experiments with pixels is a large and growing toolkit. I have built a 'front end' to identify starting points (usually other images) and then to help me select and apply different techniques to act on them, and to collect and archive the results.

As I developed this work, I began to realise that I was grounding it in my own life experience.

I was struggling to come to terms with the diversity of my own experience. How does one experience relate to another, how does visual memory relate to reality, and how do these thngs represent the enormousness of life? How can there be such enormous extremes of happiness and sadness, evil and goodness? so much technical detail in our everyday lives? so many things we do as a matter of course that we don't understand , eg how to turn on a light bulb? How can one experience relate to another to produce a third?

I personally have taken all these images: so all of them began as parts of my life. I took pixels from them, recombined and nuanced them with other similar signs from my own life.

I do other artistic things as well, but most of them are more conceptual, and cannot be easily sold through a website. More details about them are here.

One of my pixologics series has just been placed sixth in the 2022 'American Art Awards' section on 'Manipulated Photography: Landscape or Still Life'. My other works have been displayed at EVA London (2017), in the V&A New Directions series (2017), at the 20th Generative Art Conference in Ravenna (2017), at the 4th World Congress of Psychogeography (2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022), and at Goldsmiths College (2018, 2019 and 2020).