Nature is amazing. I left my garden completely clear in March. I come back in May and it is full of the most amazingly diverse range of plants. My artwork is all about 'systems', but I'll never come anywhere near to the sophistication of the systems at work in the natural world! Oh well...

I decided to volunteer to do the MA08 Web site. I registered the www.ma08.org.uk domain name a while ago, but now is the time to start building the site. Starting with a draft of the paper catalogue, I've pulling out the details of each student and creating a page on the Web site for them. It's going to be a fairly long process!

I went to see I went to see German band Einstürzende Neubauten play in their home town of Berlin this weekend. A good gig in a great city. See some some pictures on Flickr and a video on YouTube.

I've just about finished the 'Autopoieis I' and have been testing it in the studio. I think it works very well. By moving in front of the video camera the viewer/participant causes the two recorded video streams to mix. An image of the viewer/participant is then added to this. So long as there is movement in front of the artwork the process continues, when the movement stops the image (and sound) fades away.

I've been a Facebook user for quite a while, but I've only just gotten around to creating Facebook pages for the various projects I am involved in. You can now find the following Cuttlefish related pages on Facebook:

• Cuttlefish Digital Arts (Page)
• Cuttlefish Multimedia Ltd (Page)
• Nemeton (Page)
• Pineapster (Group)
• Sean Clark (Profile)

Depending on their success I will consider adding pages for other projects in the future.

I've been spending much of my time recently creating the Max/MSP/jitter patch for my 'Autopoiesis' installation. I've decided to call it 'Autopoiesis I' from now on since I expect this to be the first of many related and interconnected artworks.

'Autopoiesis I' uses my 'city people' footage and mixes it with a live recording of the person or people interacting with the artwork.

The Max/MSP/Jitter patch uses many of the best bits of my earlier 'digital art-systems' installations. In particular, I'm using the time-delayed video loop feature of 'We Are Not' alone to process the video of the viewer. This creates gentle 'video feedback' effect around the viewer.

I found a collection of photographs that were taken during the 'Moving Science' project I was involved in in 2006.

This was a really enjoyable project that involved pupils from local schools and combined digital arts (hence my involvement) with dance. It led to a show at the national Space Centre in Leicester.

The photographs can be found on my Flickr page.

I've been doing some more studio work with computer controlled laser beams. It's mainly in preparation for an installation I will be doing at this year's Shambala Festival, but I also have some plans for some gallery based laser work.

Previously I have used a DMX device to control the laser. This gives a fair amount of control, but doesn't allow the animation capabilities of more powerful lasers to be accessed. For this I've started using an ILDA controller. It sounds technical, but basically this allows me to precisely control the beam and to send animations files to the laser. This allows for some amazing effects.

My next task is to try to use Max/MSP to send ILDA information to the laser. This will allow me to synchronise sound, video, lights and the laser animations.

I've produced a presentation with voice over for my MA. It was produced for a Colloquium next week, but may be of general interest to people wanting to know more about my artwork. It is in Flash format and can be found here Send any feedback to me at seanclark@gmail.com

I've come up with the phrase 'The Art is in the Interaction' to describe what I an trying to achieve with my Digital Art-Systems work.

This aims to capture the idea that is not the 'physical' aspects of my artwork that are intended to be the primary manifestation of my 'art'. Instead, it is in the 'process of interaction' where the art lies.

I think that this is quite a significant realisation for me. It certainly gives me a useful thing to focus on for my forthcoming MA presentation...