Mike Faulkner is a London-based neurodivergent artist and climate activist. He is the founder of D-Fuse, a media arts studio that has been creating multimedia environmental storytelling through art, science, and technology since the mid-1990s. D-Fuse’s practice encompasses VR/XR, immersive installations, experimental film, animation, and live AV performances, all shaped by a neurodivergent lens that informs his sensory-rich, nonlinear approach to storytelling. His work invites audiences to engage with neurodivergence beyond cliché—not as a gift or a deficit, but as an ongoing negotiation of strength, struggle, and adaptation.
Faulkner graduated with Distinction from an MRes in Information Environments at LCC. A pioneer of VJ culture, he authored VJ: Audiovisual Art and VJ Culture, the world's first book on the form, published by Laurence King in 2007. He has collaborated with musicians and composers across the UK, US, and EU, including Steve Reich, Beck, Hauschka, and Scanner. In 2005, Mike was invited to be an artist collaborator with musician Beck for his best charting Ninth Studio album, Guero, creating entire video content for the multi-format release (CD, UMD and DVD Audio/Video), and VJ-ing live onstage for the world tour.
D-Fuse has collaborated internationally with research organisations such as Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, the Immersive Media Lab at USC, Recombinant Media Labs, the British Council, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and UCL. Their work and performances have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, 2005), Tribeca Film Festival (NYC, 2007), Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, 2009), COP26 (Glasgow, 2021), COP27 (Egypt, 2022), British Film Institute (2021), Architectural Biennale (Moscow, 2010), Mori Art Museum (Japan, 2008), Sonar D+ (Lisbon/Barcelona 2023), and the Cannes Film Festival 2020, among others.
