I gave up investment banking to become a digital artist (emf2022)

Published: June 4, 2022, 3:30 p.m.

As cringe as I often find it talking about myself, this seems to be the thing about my background that amazes people I mention it to.\n\nI spent 6 years failing to do a CS PhD, co-founded a (failed) fin-tech startup and watched the 2008 credit crunch from the inside of a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. Thanks to a chance meeting with an artist (who was hanging a door at the time), I rediscovered both my childhood love of drawing and a joy in the tech that I had started to hate.\n\nI'll talk about failing and reinvention; imposter syndrome; being neurodivergent; my experiences of the commercial world and the art world; finding a space in which you feel comfortable \u2013 but not *too* comfortable; and the power of collaborating.\nabout this event: https://c3voc.de