He then taught himself how to create images from code and has since continued his programming experiments and to use the computer “like a sketchbook”. Born in London in 1980, Paterson moved to Canada at the age of eight and studied print-making at art school there until he dropped out to live in New York where he launched his presstube.com site. .Later he met Amit Pitaru, a jazz pianist-turned-programmer, at a Flash conference in London only to discover that they lived on the same street in Brooklyn. They started working together on www.insertsilence.com, their joint web site, and on occasional commercial commissions such as the Pagan Poetry project for Björk. Their collaboration continues despite James Paterson’s recent move to Montreal. In their works, usually there is some concept previous to work on the computer. After some programming, some visual material is created to test the environment.