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Jem Mackay is an artist who has been exploring collaborative systems within creative projects for the last sixteen years. He studied Audio-Visual Communication at St Martins School of Art; he was awarded a distinction for his MA in Digital Art from the University of the Arts London; and has just completed his PhD at University College Falmouth, looking at non-hierarchy through open-source approaches to distributed filmmaking. He has experimented with group art events in non-art public venues. He initiated several art collectives including Explosure and the House Art Gallery in London, which was an artist-led exhibition space that showed works by Sir Terry Frost and Anthony Gormley alongside local artists. He has also written a chapter entitled The Philosophical Importance of Collaboration in a collection of writings by artists entitled Philosophy of Art. He is the senior technician for the School of Film & Television at Falmouth University.