Philip Pocock (1954) combines media including Internet art, installation, sculpture, photography, painting, drawing and writing. In the 1980s, he lived and worked in New York City, experimenting with the borders between painting and photography, private and public art. In 1987 along with painter John Zinsser, he co-founded the Journal of Contemporary Art, the first desktop published art magazine containing interviews with artists.
In 1993 he began working digitally, first with a laptop, modem, software and digital cameras for a project he made with Swiss artist Felix Stephan Huber titled Black Sea Diary his first travel-as-art project for the Electronic Cafe at the Venice Biannual. In 1996, he was invited by documenta X director Catherine David to propose a new Internet-based work. Philip Pocock produced UNMOVIE for 'Future Cinema' at ZKM Karlsruhe, a stage of actor-media or 'Bots' avoiding one another, or conversing in various groupings along with online guests, the on-going script of which drives an endless stream of anonymous net-video, which have been given stream of consciousness descriptors by UNMOVIE core authors and when a topic word emerging from the conversation on the stage is send to the video database a playlist is set and subsequently streamed 24 hours a day 7 days a year since 10 November 2002.