Martin Howse is an artist occupied with an investigation of the links between the earth (geophysical phenomena), software and the human psyche (psychogeophysics) through the construction of experimental situations (performances, laboratories, walks, and workshops), material art works and publications.
From 1998 to 2005 Howse was director of ap, a software performance group working with electronic waste, pioneering an early approach to digital glitch. From 2007 to 2009 he hosted a regular workshop, micro-residency and salon series in Berlin. Howse has worked and collaborated on acclaimed projects and practices such as The Crystal World, Psychogeophysics, Earthboot, Sketches towards an Earth Computer and Dissolutions. From 2016 to 2018 he initiated and led the large-scale artist research project Shift Register, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, examining the rendering experiential of the signs and markers of the anthropocene.
For the last ten years he has initiated numerous open-laboratory style projects and performed, published, lectured and exhibited worldwide. He has shown work as part of the Taipei Biennale, and in major venues such as ICA London, TEA Tenerife, HKW Berlin and Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon.
He is equally the creator of the ERD modular synthesizer series and founder of the Tiny Mining community.
