Alex McLean is a programmer-musician and software artist. He is one half of slub with Adrian Ward, a live coding duo producing gabba skiffle acid drone music with their handmade interactive development environments. slub have performed widely across Europe including at the Sonar, Transmediale, Sonic Acts, Ars Electronica and Ultrasound festivals.

Alex co-organises open and free-entry electronic art and music events including the monthly dorkbotlondon meetings and annual London LePlacard headphone festival. He's also co-developer of runme.org software art repository, leplacard.org scheduling website and sonomu.net music website, and founder member of the TOPLAP live-coding organisation. His current focus is in his work as a member of the state51 conspiracy, and in reading an MSc in Arts Computing at Goldsmiths College, London, supported by a scholarship from the PRS Foundation.

• http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma503am/
• http://yaxu.org/
• http://toplap.org/