Jer White (aka Afront)
At the start of the 1980's, I wrote and sold my first computer program (ZX Spectrum Music Composer) with a friend whilst still at school. Unfortunately we were too young to cash the cheques. Around this time, my speech "A Man's Best Friend Is His Computer" attempted to counter fears and prejudice against sentient machines. Designed, produced and remixed Entropically Yours...., a 13-track fictional album by Human League vs. Pansentient League. Remixed many audioblogs since the 1980's. Each one is usually about the beginning, middle, and end of a relationship. Created The Synthoramic Universal Garden (an online conceptual representation of the elemental universal cycle) using photography I took at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation in Scotland. Acting credits include stage performances as the Swineherd in The Princess and the Swineherd and as Ernie in Alan Ayckbourn's Ernie's Incredible Illucinations. In 2001 I designed and coded "The Easter Egg Project", a fiction engine used to hold navigable layers of related multimedia information. It contained a story I wrote about genetically-enhanced robot rabbit design and training, using selected "blipvert" graphics, music, and interactive Troubleshooting Guide excerpts. Former Quake 3 clan playah ("Lost Souls Rising"), gibbing lamers in Barrysworld leagues until we went MIA.
Websystem designer and former technical writer (cf. Altered States), working and living in the UK, USA, and France. Written one novel (unpublished sci-fi/philosophy), a Human League sci-fi musical, many short stories, and the Superhuman League webcomic. | |||