A designer of computer games, a computer artist and entrepreneur. Expertise in evolutionary art, graphics, generative art, genetics, and the entertainment and video games industries.
Publications and research outputs
Edited Book
Latham, William and Todd, Stephen, eds. 1992. Evolutionary Art and Computers. Academic Press Inc. ISBN 978-0124371859
Book Section
Antunes, Rui Filipe; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2016. Computational Ecosystems in Evolutionary Art, and Their Potential for the Future of Virtual Worlds. In: UNSPECIFIED, ed. Handbook on 3D3C Platforms. Springer, pp. 441-473. ISBN 978-3-319-22040-6
Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Todd, Stephen; Todd, P; Latham, William; Jefferys, Benjamin and Kelley, Lawrence. 2011. FoldSynth: A Physics-based Interactive Visualisation Platform for Proteins and other Molecular Strands. In: UNSPECIFIED, ed. Proceedings of BioVis 2011. Providence, RI, USA:
Article
Upton, Emily; Doogan, Catherine; Fleming, Victoria; Leyton, Pedro Quijada; Barbera, David; Zeidman, Peter; Hope, Tom; Latham, William; Coley-Fisher, Henry; Price, Cathy; Crinion, Jennifer and Leff, Alex. 2024. Efficacy of a gamified digital therapy for speech production in people with chronic aphasia (iTalkBetter): behavioural and imaging outcomes of a phase II item-randomised clinical trial. eClinicalMedicine, 70, 102483. ISSN 2589-5370
Lai, Gorm; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2022. On Mixed-Initiative Content Creation for Video Games. IEEE Transactions on Games, 14(4), pp. 543-557. ISSN 2475-1502
Salimbeni, Guido; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2022. A Machine Learning Application Based on Giorgio Morandi Still-Life Paintings to Assist Artists in the Choice of 3D Compositions. Leonardo, 55(1), pp. 57-61. ISSN 0024-094X
Barbera, David S.; Huckvale, Mark; Fleming, Victoria; Upton, Emily; Coley-Fisher, Henry; Doogan, Catherine; Shaw, Ian; Latham, William; Leff, Alexander P. and Crinion, Jenny. 2021. NUVA: A Naming Utterance Verifier for Aphasia Treatment. Computer Speech & Language, 69, 101221. ISSN 0885-2308
Lai, Gorm; Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Latham, William; Arita, Takaya and Suzuki, Reiji. 2021. Virtual Creature Morphology - A Review. Computer Graphics Forum, 40(2), pp. 659-681. ISSN 0167-7055
Latham, William; Todd, Stephen; Todd, Peter and Putnam, Lance. 2021. Exhibiting Mutator VR: Procedural Art Evolves to Virtual Reality. Leonardo, 54(3), pp. 274-281. ISSN 0024-094X
Putnam, Lance; Latham, William and Todd, Stephen. 2018. Flow Fields and Agents for Immersive Interaction in Mutator VR: Vortex. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 26(2), pp. 138-156. ISSN 1054-7460
al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid; Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Latham, William and Bishop, Mark. 2017. Swarmic autopoiesis and computational creativity. Connection Science, 29(4), pp. 276-294. ISSN 0954-0091
Antunes, Rui Filipe; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2015. On Writing and Reading Artistic Computational Ecosystems. Artificial Life, 21(3), pp. 320-331. ISSN 1064-5462
Antunes, Rui Filipe; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2014. Two Decades of Evolutionary Art Using Computational Ecosystems and Its Potential for Virtual Worlds. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 7(3),
Lambert, Nicholas; Latham, William and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2013. The Emergence and Growth of Evolutionary Art 1980-1993. Leonardo, 46(4), pp. 367-375. ISSN 0024-094X
Latham, William. 2013. Evolutionary Art and Computers. Hyperseeing,
Conference or Workshop Item
Zhang, Tianyuan; Lin, Wei; Zhang, Dingye; Pan, Xueni; Latham, William; Grayson, Katie; Watson, Zillah and Gillies, Marco. 2025. 'Sensing Nature'. In: ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2025. Madeira, Portugal 5 - 9 July 2025.
Lai, Gorm; Kultima, Annakaisa; Khosmood, Foaad; Pirker, Johanna; Fowler, Allan; Vecchi, Ilaria; Latham, William and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2021. 'Two Decades of Game Jams'. In: ICGJ 2021: Sixth Annual International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events. Montreal, Canada 2 August 2021.
Gerard, Pierre-Fran莽ois; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2021. 'The Effect of Spatial Design on User Memory Performance Using the Method of Loci in VR'. In: 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN). Eureka, California, United States 17 May-10 June 2021.
Barbera, David S.; Huckvale, Mark; Fleming, Victoria; Upton, Emily; Coley-Fisher, Henry; Shaw, Ian; Latham, William; Leff, Alexander P. and Crinion, Jenny. 2020. 'An Utterance Verification System for Word Naming Therapy in Aphasia'. In: Interspeech 2020. Shanghai, China 25-29 October 2020.
Latham, William and Putnam, Lance J. 2019. 'Creating FormScape VR'. In: Cyfest 12. St. Petersburg, Russian Federation November 12 2020.
Putnam, Lance; Todd, Stephen and Latham, William. 2019. 'Abstract Shape Synthesis From Linear Combinations of Clelia Curves'. In: ACM/EG Expressive Symposium 2019. Genoa, Italy 5-6 May 2019.
Putnam, Lance; Todd, Stephen; Latham, William and Williams, Duncan. 2019. 'Mutator VR: Vortex Artwork and Science Pedagogy Adaptations'. In: ACM/EG Expressive Symposium 2019 - Posters, Demos, and Artworks. Genoa, Italy 5-6 May 2019.
Latham, William. 2017. 'Mutator VR'. In: #postARTandSCIENCE. Henry Wellcome Auditorium, Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom 22 September 2017.
al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid; Latham, William; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Bishop, Mark. 2016. 'Swarmic Autopoiesis: Decoding de Kooning'. In: The AISB16's 3rd International Symposium on Computational Creativity (CC2016). Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Todd, Stephen; Todd, Peter; Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Latham, William; Kelley, Lawrence A.; Sternberg, Michael; Hugues, Jim and Taylor, Stephen. 2015. 'FoldSynth: Interactive 2D/3D Visualisation Platform for Molecular Strands'. In: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM). Chester, United Kingdom.
Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Todd, P; Todd, Stephen; Latham, William; Kelley, Lawrence and Jefferys, Benjamin. 2010. 'FoldSynth: interactive multimedia platform for real and synthetic protein structures'. In: EMBO Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (VizBi). EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
Latham, William; Shaw, Miki; Todd, Stephen; Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Jefferys, Benjamin and Kelley, Lawrence. 2008. 'Using DNA to generate 3D organic art forms'. In: Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Applications of evolutionary computing. Naples, Italy.
Latham, William. 1994. 'Presentations at E3 Trade Show'. In: Los Angeles and Consumer Electronics Show. Las Vegas, United States 1994-2003.
Latham, William. 1993. 'The Applications of Evolutionary and Biological Processes to Computer Art and Animation'. In: SIGGRAPH Panel CaUi. California, United States.
Latham, William. 1990. 'Sculpting and Painting by Computer'. In: 8th EUROGRAPHICS. Bath, United Kingdom.
Latham, William. 1990. 'Evolution of Programs for Defining Sculptural Forms'. In: 8th Eurographics UK Conference. Bath, United Kingdom.
Digital
Latham, William and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2007. The History of the Species in Sketch.
Film/Video
Latham, William. 1994. Organic Television.
Latham, William. 1993. Biogenesis.
Latham, William and Todd, Stephen. 1989. Sequence from The Evolution of Form.
Latham, William. 1989. Film Festivals / Computer Animation Festivals (Selected).
Project
Latham, William; Todd, Stephen; Putnam, Lance; Todd, Peter and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2016 - 2020 Mutator VR.
Show/Exhibition
Latham, William; Todd, Stephen; Todd, Peter and Putnam, Lance. 2020. Mutator VR at Centre Pompidou, Paris. In: "Neurones, les intelligences simul茅es", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 26 February - 20 April 2020.
Latham, William. 2019. Mutator Video Art at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai. Green Bank Art Festival 2019. In: "Green Bank Art Festival 2019", Modern Art Museum Shanghai, China, 1 - 30 December 2019.
Latham, William and Putnam, Lance. 2019. Formscape VR at ID Art:Tech, Saint Petersburg. In: "CYFEST-12: ID: International Festival of Media Art", Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, 13 鈥� 24 November 2019.
Latham, William; Todd, Stephen and Todd, Peter. 2019. Inside the HSV1, Herpes Simplex Virus in VR - Artistic Variations at The State of Us Exhibition, The Lowry. In: "The State of Us", The Lowry, Salford, United Kingdom, 9 November 2019 - 23 February 2020.
Latham, William. 2019. Mutator VR. In: "World Conference on VR Industry Expo", Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China, 19 - 21 October 2019.
Latham, William. 2019. Mutator VR. In: "London Games Festival", Guildhall Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 6 April 2019.
Latham, William. 2019. Mutator VR. In: "Horniman X Goldsmiths Late", Horniman Museum and Gardens, United Kingdom, 21 March 2019.
Latham, William and Putnam, Lance. 2019. Mutator VR at Kinninji Buddhist Temple. In: "KyotoU-Goldsmiths Art & Science International Symposium: "Art Innovation"", Kinninji Buddhist Temple, Kyoto, Japan, 14 - 28 March 2019.
Latham, William. 2018. Mutator VR: Mutation Space & Vortex. In: "Lightwaves 2018", Salford Quays, United Kingdom, 7 - 16 December 2018.
Latham, William. 2018. Mutator VR. In: "Pendoran Vinci: Art and Artificial Intelligence Today", NRW-Forum D眉sseldorf, Germany, 9 June - 19 August 2018.
Latham, William. 2017. Mutator VR at SHOOM 30. In: "SHOOM 30", Pulse, Bankside Vaults, London, United Kingdom, 8 - 9 December 2017.
Latham, William; Todd, Stephen and Putnam, Lance. 2017. Mutator VR. In: "Ars Electronica Festival 2017", POSTCITY Linz, Austria, 7 - 11 September 2017.
Latham, William; Todd, Stephen; Putnam, Lance and Todd, Peter. 2017. Mutator VR at HYBRIS, Venice, Italy. In: "HYBRIS (Hybrids and Monsters in Contemporary Art)", CFZ - Ca鈥� Foscari Zattere, Venice, Italy, 13 May - 28 June 2017.
Latham, William; Todd, Stephen and Putnam, Lance. 2017. Mutator VR. In: "Cyfest 17", St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 26 January - 6 February 2017.
Latham, William; Todd, Stephen and Putnam, Lance. 2016. Mutator VR at East GalleryNUA (Norwich University of the Arts). In: "Mutator VR", East GalleryNUA (Norwich University of the Arts), United Kingdom, 15 November 2016 鈥� 14 January 2017.
Latham, William; Todd, Stephen and Putnam, Lance. 2016. Organic Art VR. In: "New Scientist Live", ExCeL London, United Kingdom, 22 - 25 September 2016.
Latham, William; Tanaka, Atau and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2014. Creative Machine. In: "Creative Machine", St James Hatcham Church Gallery, 樱桃视频, 7 - 14 November 2014.
Latham, William; Todd, Stephen; Todd, Peter and Ciciani, Lorenzo. 2014. Mutation Space. In: "Creative Machine", St James Hatcham Church Gallery, 樱桃视频, United Kingdom, 7 - 14 November 2014.
Latham, William and Gollifer, Susan. 2013. Mutator 1 + 2: Evolutionary Art. In: "Brighton Design Festival", Brighton, 7 Sept - 13 Oct 2013.
Latham, William. 2007. Mutator 2.. In: "Mutator 2. Willliam Latham and Team Mutator", The National Institute for Medical Research, 11/1/2007 - 12/12/2007.
Latham, William. 1995. ARS International Modern Art. Helsinki, Finland.
Latham, William. 1993. Mutation Room. In: "British Council Show", Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Latham, William. 1991. Computer Art. Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France.
Latham, William. 1990. The Empire of Form. O Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan Tours for 6 months to various locations, see description.
Latham, William. 1988. Computer Art Exhibition. Utrecht, Netherlands.
Latham, William. 1988. Whitechapel Open. Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Latham, William. 1987. 鈥淭he Conquest of Form鈥�. The Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom Toured for 4 years various other locations, see description.
Latham, William. 1987. Royal College of Art Show. Concourse Gallery, The Barbican, London, United Kingdom.
Latham, William. 1987. International Print Biennal Print Show. Tapai Fine Arts Museum , Taipei, Korea, Republic of.
