Adrian Ward is a British software developer, software artist and musician based in London. He co-won the transmediale 01 award for software art for his Auto-Illustrator. Ward creates autogenerative software-based artworks that operate as visual and musical systems. By doing so, he brings into question the fundamental assumptions regarding artistic function (authority, authorship and the dematerialisation of the artist) and poses new ways in which to deploy creativity (by posing these artworks as usable applications, games and utilities).