In January 2024, we used Innovate UK funding to commission blogs from artists involved in Control Shift to share how their work relates to different approaches to technology. Below, web developer and digital artist David Matunda explores how arts practices remind us that tech is messy, grounded, physical and has environmental impact.

Over to you, David!

About David

David Matunda is a web developer and digital artist working mostly in code (JavaScript) to realise their work in contexts like the web browser, live code performance or machine plotting. They are interested in the visual outputs of algorithms as well as the cultural significance of algorithms in the histories of pre-diasporic Afro communities. His practice is informed by history, politics, fashion, religion, cultural uses of technology and ideas around how we understand wealth and value.