Beginning Generative Art

I am Matt Pearson, a writer and coder based in Brighton UK. I was Head of Development for a large eLearning company until Feb 2008, now I make my living as a Freelance ActionScript Specialist.

I am known in my field for having a rare mix of creative and technical abilities and I'm well respected for my writing. My blog http://zenbullets.com/ averages 40,000 page views per month, which is impressive considering it is little more than a stream of random thoughts that have escaped my brain. In December last year it won "best blog" at the DiMAS awards. I write more serious articles on the subject of ActionScript at http://actionscripter.co.uk too, but only the techies read that one.

More recently I attracted attention for my 100 Abandoned Artworks Generative Art project (http://abandonedart.org), where I set myself the challenge of publishing one Generative Art piece a week for as long as I could keep it up. This is where the idea for my book originated.