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Dr. Simon Yuill is an artist and programmer who is based in Scotland. He is a member of staff in the School of Media Arts and Imaging, in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (which is itself now a faculty of the University of Dundee).

He was thanked on the artwork accompanying the A Few Old Tunes cassette. The extent and the nature of his involvement in that release are unknown; likewise, it is not known whether he was ever a member of the Hexagon Sun collective.

The BBC website contains a description of the "Dots and Lines" online exhibition, including the information that the musicians Simon has worked with include Boards of Canada, Kaffe Matthews and Zeena Parkins. [1] His collaboration with the latter two musicians was evidently the "Weightless Animals" project, a series of "Sonic Space Cartoons" in Flash animation form.

His interests include art, music, political activism, performance, and free software. In 2004, he was the organizer of "Your Machines", a series of workshops and discussions about Free Open Source Software that were held in the CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts) in Glasgow.

Simon was the project director of "Spring_Alpha", a networked game set in a council estate; the game allows virtual "social experimentation", not only by means of normal game play, but also by modification of its own source code.

Together with Tryggve Askildsen, Simon is a member of the code-art collective "Slateford". Although the two have never met, they collaborate online to explore the aesthetics of old-school computer programming, but using contemporary equipment. All of Slateford's artistic output is in black and white.

External links

Biography at the Duncan of Jordanstone College website.
Your Machines : Your Culture an essay by Dr. Simon Yuill.
Your Machines official site.
Slateford official site.
Slateford including a biography of its members.
Spring_Alpha
Weightless Animals programming by Simon, music by Kaffe Matthews and Zeena Parkins.

**People Overview** | view • talk • edit
Current Members	Marcus Eoin • Michael Sandison
Hexagon Sun/Prior Members	Peter Iain Campbell • Frazer Clarke • S. Goderich • Mdg • Christopher Horne • Simon Yuill • Melissa Olson
Mythology	NFBOC • Smokes Quantity • David Koresh • Amo Bishop Roden
Other	The Cosmic Crofter • Autechre • Prince Murat • Helios

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 Dr. Simon Yuill is an artist and programmer who is based in Scotland. He is a member of staff in the School of Media Arts and Imaging, in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (which is itself now a faculty of the University of Dundee).
-He was thanked on the artwork accompanying the [[A Few Old Tunes]] cassette. The extent and the nature of his involvement in that release are unknown; likewise, whether he was ever "officially" a member of the Hexagon Sun collective is not known at present.
+He was thanked on the artwork accompanying the [[A Few Old Tunes]] cassette. The extent and the nature of his involvement in that release are unknown; likewise, it is not known whether he was ever a member of the Hexagon Sun collective.
-The BBC website contains a description of the "Dots and Lines" online exhibition states that the musicians Simon has worked with include Boards of Canada, Kaffe Matthews and Zeena Parkins. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cutandsplice/pet.shtml]
+The BBC website contains a description of the "Dots and Lines" online exhibition, including the information that the musicians Simon has worked with include Boards of Canada, Kaffe Matthews and Zeena Parkins. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cutandsplice/pet.shtml] His collaboration with the latter two musicians was evidently the "Weightless Animals" project, a series of "Sonic Space Cartoons" in Flash animation form.
 His interests include art, music, political activism, performance, and free software. In 2004, he was the organizer of "Your Machines", a series of workshops and discussions about Free Open Source Software that were held in the CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts) in Glasgow.
-With Tryggve Askildsen, he is a member of the code-art collective "Slateford". Although the two have never met, they collaborate online to explore the aesthetics of old-school computer programming, but using contemporary equipment. All of Slateford's artistic output is in black and white.
+Simon was the project director of "Spring_Alpha", a networked game set in a council estate; the game allows virtual "social experimentation", not only by means of normal game play, but also by modification of its own source code.
-Simon was also project director of "Spring_Alpha", a networked game set in a council estate; the game allows virtual "social experimentation", not only by means of normal game play, but also by modification of its own source code.
+Together with Tryggve Askildsen, Simon is a member of the code-art collective "Slateford". Although the two have never met, they collaborate online to explore the aesthetics of old-school computer programming, but using contemporary equipment. All of Slateford's artistic output is in black and white.
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