Adrian Ward works as a software artist, creating generative audio, visual and process-based applications for a variety of uses. He is mostly concerned with issues surrounding authorship and the extension of aesthetic subjectivity into code – an activity which he believes has been happening since the first programmable devices were invented.

Currently collaborating with a range of musicians, conceptual and performance artists, he also uses his software for live musical performances and installations. He is involved with a number of educational software projects that actively engage the user by exploring interactivity within a generative context.

Ade has had his work published by Lovebytes (Sheffield), MediaSpace (Plymouth) and Rhizome (New York), had software exhibited at 291 Gallery (London) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), and has presented papers at two International Generative Art conferences (Milan) as well as giving a guest lecture at Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle). His most ambitious project to date – Auto-Illustrator, a generative vector graphic design application – co-won the Transmediale.01 Artistic Software award (Berlin) and earned an honorary mention at the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica (Linz) in the Interactive Art category.