Radio 1 is behind me 100 per cent, but I am the only person at the BBC who knows the way the system integrates. I can't even get an assistant because they'd have to understand Midi programming, the computing language designed for musicians that lets all the different units talk to one another.The main tool for putting effects on the video is a Korg Kaoss pad. The Kaoss is a DJ tool used for making changes to music, but I opened up the back end and reprogrammed it so that instead it could control video information. Because the Kaoss has a really easy interface that's designed to be used by DJs, you don't have to be a programmer to work with it. Plus it's cheaper than software and never crashes.The entire system is made up of two Mac PowerBooks, a Panasonic MX50 mixing desk and two music keyboards to control the Macs alongside the Kaoss pad Each piece of the system uses Midi. I press G on the keyboard and it sends Midi to where all the video is stored in the Mac and tells it to play this or that video.

Each key on the keyboard controls a different piece of video and plays when you press it. Then when I scratch back and forth on the Kaoss pad, like a DJ scratching a record, it tells the Mac to play it forward, backwards or produce whatever effect I want.Usually in clubs the videos are either heavy corporate stuff like a spinning Gatecrasher logo, bits of old film with people dancing in a groovy way or a dystopian Eighties electro punk look that has nothing to do with music today. I wanted to create something that re-created the clubbing experience, so I filmed in the clubs. This means the visuals are a big phenomenological loop for clubbers because they are watching blown up images of themselves that interact with the music.I grew up on the circus, and I entertain as second nature. Even when I'm working on something very serious, in the back of my mind there's a circus clown saying "let me entertain you," and I always know what the audience wants instinctively.

I have got a really diverse practice as an artist and do everything from photography to installations. Years before the World Wide Web I was releasing interactive film over the internet. I don't like to use the word convergence, but I've always tried to bring everything together, and that's finally happened as a video DJ.The UK art world is so painfully far behind with technology, and the art schools don't have enough computers and the staff don't know how to operate them. Plus the galleries don't know how to market this kind of technology art - which is fair enough because the artists don't know how to make it! Nevertheless, I've been very lucky to get the support, because making this type of work isn't cheap.. Scientists are close to identifying a gene that predisposes people to develop Alzheimer's disease in later life, it will be announced today.