Jem Finer

Jem Finer is an English musician, artist, and composer born on July 25, 1955 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. With a background in mathematics and computer science, he has been fascinated by deep time and space, self-organising systems, and long-durational processes throughout his career. His notable works include Longplayer, a thousand-year-long musical composition commissioned by Artangel; Cosmolog, a two-year-long residency at Oxford University's astrophysics department; and Score For a Hole In the Ground, a permanent musical installation in Kent. Finer's recent work explores sustainability and reconfiguring older technologies.

During his residency at Oxford University, Finer coined the term "post-digital" to describe his shift towards direct engagement with materials and landscape rather than relying solely on digital technology. He created sculptural radio-observatories called Landscope in Lough Neagh, N.Ireland as well as The Centre of the Universe in University Parks where he lived for a month collecting signals from outer space.

Finer's recent projects include Kung Fu Pinball - a modified pinball machine that auto-composes music; Slowplayer - a sound system that plays music at 3 r.p.m.; Spiegelei - a 360-degree spherical camera obscura. His latest work Supercomputer is located in Cambridge and combines computational processes with sculpture influenced by Jean Tinguely's Métamatics and John Conway