David Everitt (b. 1952, Leicester) is a British interdisciplinary artist, writer, musician, researcher, and former educator whose work explores relationships between pattern, mathematics, technology, and human interaction. Working across digital art, sound, text, programming, and research, Everitt has developed a practice that moves fluidly between artistic production, theoretical inquiry, and technological experimentation. He describes himself as a “creative generalist”, drawing together ideas from multiple disciplines through collaborative and exploratory methods. He did his foundation studies at Leicester Polytechnic and studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic. He was awarded his degree in 1974.

Since the late 1990s, Everitt has worked extensively with interactive and technology-based art. Between 1998 and 2002, he was a visiting researcher at the Creativity and Cognition Research Studios at Loughborough University, where he developed collaborative projects and exhibited a heartbeat-driven interactive artwork in 1999. His work during this period examined physiological computing, biological interfaces, and audience interaction, resulting in collaborative research publications including On Physiological Computing with an Application in Interactive Art (2004), co-authored with Ernest Edmonds and others.

Everitt’s artistic and research interests are usually in collaboration and focus on the perception of pattern, the interplay between order and disorder, combinatorics, magic squares, and programming culture. His projects include web-based tools for analysing mathematical patterns, collaborative digital artworks using live data, and experimental Processing-based visual and web-based works. Alongside visual practice, he maintains long-running activities in published fiction and music, producing recordings with Memory Wire and others.

Alongside his artistic work, Everitt has contributed to research and teaching in digital culture and web technologies. He has lectured and delivered seminars on emerging interfaces, accessibility, and the cultural implications of technology, and was involved in early work supporting Disability Arts Online as an independent organisation funded through Arts Council England. He later worked with the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University as a part-time lecturer and research fellow.

Everitt’s practice combines artistic production with sustained independent research into mathematics, culture, and interdisciplinary science. His published work includes contributions to Explorations in Art and Technology (2002 and 2018), papers on magic squares and pattern classification, and writing on digital culture, creativity, and technology. 

Underlying Everitt’s work is a continuing interest in collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and what he describes as the “multi-threaded connections” between fields of knowledge. His practice uses technology not simply as a tool, but as a means of exploring ideas that connect varying fields.

Website: https://daveeveritt.org