Inaugural lecture from Professor Paul Sermon

Overview and video

'Art is something that happens; a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.

 “…what makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.” Brian Eno’s Diary, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996.

Although I have ‘nothing’ to show, I will attempt to present over twenty years of work in forty minutes, through the documentation, stories and accounts of the experiences I have affected.

Central to my creative practice is an ability to present a sense of  ‘touch’ in a global network, where the role of the viewer becomes creator. The networked video installations I have developed connect audiences around the world; whose engagement within them makes the work and their shared experiences of them creates the Art.