Joseph Wilk (GB) (MEng) is an London born artist and programmer who uses the digital to explore disability and disability to explore the digital. He often works with automative forms of expression that utilize new interfaces to work with alternative bodies. His experience of disability—living with pain, physical limitations, disillusionment and disconnection—strongly impacts his practice. He deconstructs, misuses, and repurposes software and hardware to challenge notions of ownership, narrative, and visibility.
Through live coding in front of an audience he has worked in other performance fields such as dance, theatre, music & cinematography. Performance is a key part of his practice, fulfiling a need to be seen physically and creatively, but in a form he controls
He has exhibited at venues such as: V&A, Southbank Center, Somerset House, Ars Electronica & Attenborough Arts. His work has won an award at Ars Electronica and he has performed in venues such as Deakin Theatre - Melbourne, KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Sweden, Salzburg Congress - Austria.
