Co-founder of renowned artists' group visits Leeds

Matt Adams from Blast Theory hosts a talk in Leeds later this month. Internationally acclaimed as one of the most adventurous artists' groups using interactive media, Blast Theory create groundbreaking new forms of performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance and digital broadcasting.

Matt Adams' first passion was theatre from the age of 13 as an actor and director. Acting credits include The Ghost Of Oxford Street directed by Malcolm McLaren for Channel 4.

He studied English Literature at University College London and co-founded Blast Theory in 1991 with a group of friends who worked at the Renoir Cinema in Bloomsbury. Matt co-curated the Screen series of video works for Live Culture at Tate Modern in 2003 and curated the Games and War season at the ICA in London in 2003.

He has taught widely on performance, new media and interdisciplinary practice at institutions such as the Royal College of Art and Pace University in New York. He has also contributed to research by Ofcom, the Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and has co-authored over a dozen papers with the University of Nottingham.

Matt has presented at conferences such as Hot Docs documentary film festival in Toronto; Banff Television Conference; Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre; The Future of War: Aesthetics, Politics, Technologies in New York; Dutch Electronic Art Festival in Rotterdam; dLux Media Arts festival in Sydney; The Creative City in Taipei.

He has written essays for "Art & D: Artistic Research and Development", "Live 5: My Perfect Theatre" and Vodafone's Receiver magazine and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Central School of Speech and Drama.