Jem Finer

Jem Finer is a UK-based artist, musician and composer. Since studying computer science in the 1970s, he has worked in a variety of fields, including photography, film, experimental and popular music and installation. Finer was one of the founding members of The Pogues. His 1000 year long musical composition, Longplayer, represents a convergence of many of his concerns, particularly those relating to systems, long-durational processes and extremes of scale in both time and space.

Jem Finer came to the DAI in Enschede in April 2003, where he gave a talk about Longplayer and had one on one meetings with several students.