Joshua Portway (born 1967) is an artist and game designer. He is a frequent collaborator with

Lise Autogena Lise Autogena (born 1964) is a Danish artist living in the United Kingdom. At the age of 17, she left home to live in Denmark's experimental community Christiania, an experience which she has said was very important in her development. Autogena ...

, for example on their

Black Shoals {{no footnotes, date=March 2013 Black Shoals is an artificial ecosystem linked to the real time dynamics of the stock market. It was first shown at the Tate Gallery in 2001, and nominated for an Alternative Turner Prize in 2002. A more sophisticate ...

stock market. He is also the author of th
Noodle
series of interactive music pieces, which was originally created as a part of larger world music project at Peter Gabriel's Real World Multimedia studio. Although the main project didn't see the light of day, Noodle was released as an interactive track on a number of Real World CDs, and later evolved int
Noodle Heaven
By 1984, he had written and published the game "Sim" for the

BBC Micro The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers in the 1980s for the BBC Computer Literacy Project. Designed with an emphas ...

and

Acorn Electron The Acorn Electron (nicknamed the Elk inside Acorn and beyond) was a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/ home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers Ltd, to provide many of the features of that more expensive machine at a ...

, which reached number 2 in the charts in 198

In 2002 he was nominated (along with Lise Autogena) for the Alternative Turner Prize

He is the son of the artist

Douglas Portway Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals *Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking * Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civil ...

, and brother of actor and musician

Saskia Portway Saskia is a Germanic feminine given name. There are at least two different sources of the name. One is of North German and Northeast Netherlands origin, where it originally meant "a Saxon woman" ( metathesis of "Saxia"). Notable people with the nam ...

External links

personal websiteartist page at the-artists.orgBlack Shoals ProjectSound Mirrors Project

Tate BritainNoodle HeavenOriginal Noodle WebsiteSim, for the BBC Micro
1967 births British installation artists Living people British video game designers British video game programmers {{UK-artist-stub