Tom Abba
@tomabba.studio
Director Digital Cultures Research Centre and Pervasive Media Studio Resident. Artist, writer and publisher. Opinions are all my own. Usually making something
That’s not a sign. It’s a poorly kerned (do I detect the hand of Microsoft word?) printout on sheets of A3 paper tacked to the wall.
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
That’s not a sign. It’s a poorly kerned (do I detect the hand of Microsoft word?) printout on sheets of A3 paper tacked to the wall.
Found it! The Malago.
What I didn’t know until yesterday is that one of its relief culverts runs right under the building my studio is in..
(Hugely enjoying Is A River Alive btw. This journey is for a piece of immersive art that’s becoming massively informed by that book)
What I didn’t know until yesterday is that one of its relief culverts runs right under the building my studio is in..
(Hugely enjoying Is A River Alive btw. This journey is for a piece of immersive art that’s becoming massively informed by that book)
October 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Found it! The Malago.
What I didn’t know until yesterday is that one of its relief culverts runs right under the building my studio is in..
(Hugely enjoying Is A River Alive btw. This journey is for a piece of immersive art that’s becoming massively informed by that book)
What I didn’t know until yesterday is that one of its relief culverts runs right under the building my studio is in..
(Hugely enjoying Is A River Alive btw. This journey is for a piece of immersive art that’s becoming massively informed by that book)
Our forefathers tamed the brooks, and the streams, and the rivers. They harnessed the sea, and tethered the flow of life itself to their own ends.
But none of it was ever theirs.
The Devil’s Sound.
A limited series immersive audio presentation.
The journey begins soon.
But none of it was ever theirs.
The Devil’s Sound.
A limited series immersive audio presentation.
The journey begins soon.
October 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Our forefathers tamed the brooks, and the streams, and the rivers. They harnessed the sea, and tethered the flow of life itself to their own ends.
But none of it was ever theirs.
The Devil’s Sound.
A limited series immersive audio presentation.
The journey begins soon.
But none of it was ever theirs.
The Devil’s Sound.
A limited series immersive audio presentation.
The journey begins soon.
Okay. Two books published today.
Each is designed to be strange. They’re books, and not books. They know who you are, and where they came from. And they’re not going back quietly.
Shipping today.
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/none...
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/none...
Each is designed to be strange. They’re books, and not books. They know who you are, and where they came from. And they’re not going back quietly.
Shipping today.
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/none...
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/none...
September 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Okay. Two books published today.
Each is designed to be strange. They’re books, and not books. They know who you are, and where they came from. And they’re not going back quietly.
Shipping today.
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/none...
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/none...
Each is designed to be strange. They’re books, and not books. They know who you are, and where they came from. And they’re not going back quietly.
Shipping today.
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/none...
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/none...
We don’t do unboxing videos here.
But, it has arrived. Hardback and softback.
Update and ordering details in a few days.
But, it has arrived. Hardback and softback.
Update and ordering details in a few days.
September 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
We don’t do unboxing videos here.
But, it has arrived. Hardback and softback.
Update and ordering details in a few days.
But, it has arrived. Hardback and softback.
Update and ordering details in a few days.
Spent most of the day wrestling with layouts and then realised exactly what I was recreating.
(Yes, @iangadd.bsky.social, this is your fault..)
(Yes, @iangadd.bsky.social, this is your fault..)
August 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Spent most of the day wrestling with layouts and then realised exactly what I was recreating.
(Yes, @iangadd.bsky.social, this is your fault..)
(Yes, @iangadd.bsky.social, this is your fault..)
With book reading. We should do more book reading in lunchtime talks. Seems civilised somehow.
July 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
With book reading. We should do more book reading in lunchtime talks. Seems civilised somehow.
Stage one. 24 hard bound cases ‘treated’ with an oxyacetylene torch. Now to flatten them back and move to the inner contents.
(I’m making a book)
(I’m making a book)
June 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Stage one. 24 hard bound cases ‘treated’ with an oxyacetylene torch. Now to flatten them back and move to the inner contents.
(I’m making a book)
(I’m making a book)
Back in the studio for the first time in weeks. First steps.
This one is for @hutchinsondave.bsky.social
This one is for @hutchinsondave.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Back in the studio for the first time in weeks. First steps.
This one is for @hutchinsondave.bsky.social
This one is for @hutchinsondave.bsky.social
I have a herniated disc in my lower back, and so I won’t be at BV Open Studios this weekend (do go if you’re in Bristol!!)
But - I have updated the online store with prints and sets of postcards. Postcards are £10 for a boxed set of 5, prints are £20 each.
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com
But - I have updated the online store with prints and sets of postcards. Postcards are £10 for a boxed set of 5, prints are £20 each.
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I have a herniated disc in my lower back, and so I won’t be at BV Open Studios this weekend (do go if you’re in Bristol!!)
But - I have updated the online store with prints and sets of postcards. Postcards are £10 for a boxed set of 5, prints are £20 each.
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com
But - I have updated the online store with prints and sets of postcards. Postcards are £10 for a boxed set of 5, prints are £20 each.
ambientliterature.bigcartel.com
Four hours later. More making things space. Less boxed in.
I’m entering Interior Design Masters next year, mark my words…
I’m entering Interior Design Masters next year, mark my words…
March 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Four hours later. More making things space. Less boxed in.
I’m entering Interior Design Masters next year, mark my words…
I’m entering Interior Design Masters next year, mark my words…
That gum you like never went out of style…
February 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
That gum you like never went out of style…
Who shared that Independent article about the universe changing abruptly..?
(All credit to Air Giants and Bristol Light Festival)
(All credit to Air Giants and Bristol Light Festival)
February 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Who shared that Independent article about the universe changing abruptly..?
(All credit to Air Giants and Bristol Light Festival)
(All credit to Air Giants and Bristol Light Festival)
Er. Don’t tell anyone but something might have changed…
February 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Er. Don’t tell anyone but something might have changed…
And so did I.
03/12/2024
(He left the table nice and clean, mind you)
03/12/2024
(He left the table nice and clean, mind you)
December 3, 2024 at 5:39 PM
And so did I.
03/12/2024
(He left the table nice and clean, mind you)
03/12/2024
(He left the table nice and clean, mind you)
Happy birthday @harkaway.bsky.social!
(Photo snatched whilst running between stations last night. There’s no such thing as coincidence)
(Photo snatched whilst running between stations last night. There’s no such thing as coincidence)
November 26, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Happy birthday @harkaway.bsky.social!
(Photo snatched whilst running between stations last night. There’s no such thing as coincidence)
(Photo snatched whilst running between stations last night. There’s no such thing as coincidence)
That’s what’s up. Deer in the garden. Three more behind that grass to the right.
September 6, 2024 at 9:10 AM
That’s what’s up. Deer in the garden. Three more behind that grass to the right.
Back in the studio. The ‘other thing’ is pretty much finished and will be in the world next month. So it’s back to this work in progress. Much messing with details and tone today, but would like to have it done by the weekend….
August 29, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Back in the studio. The ‘other thing’ is pretty much finished and will be in the world next month. So it’s back to this work in progress. Much messing with details and tone today, but would like to have it done by the weekend….
Based entirely on an evening whim, and a series of interview snapshots posted by @interzone.press I bought Nathan Ballingrud’s Crypt of the Moon Spider.
Oh my goodness. Oh wow. Oh f*ck. Short, weird, beautiful and insane. Treat yourself. You know you want to.
Oh my goodness. Oh wow. Oh f*ck. Short, weird, beautiful and insane. Treat yourself. You know you want to.
August 29, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Based entirely on an evening whim, and a series of interview snapshots posted by @interzone.press I bought Nathan Ballingrud’s Crypt of the Moon Spider.
Oh my goodness. Oh wow. Oh f*ck. Short, weird, beautiful and insane. Treat yourself. You know you want to.
Oh my goodness. Oh wow. Oh f*ck. Short, weird, beautiful and insane. Treat yourself. You know you want to.
How it’s going (I’m not doing this remotely right, am I?)
August 22, 2024 at 3:36 PM
How it’s going (I’m not doing this remotely right, am I?)
UnderCurrents is an Oulippean folk horror, masquerading as a limited run artists book. Edition of 50, of a potential several million (cannot remember the maths!). ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/unde...
(£28 plus postage).
Thanks Jeremy.
(£28 plus postage).
Thanks Jeremy.
July 8, 2024 at 8:55 PM
UnderCurrents is an Oulippean folk horror, masquerading as a limited run artists book. Edition of 50, of a potential several million (cannot remember the maths!). ambientliterature.bigcartel.com/product/unde...
(£28 plus postage).
Thanks Jeremy.
(£28 plus postage).
Thanks Jeremy.
@xenogothic.bsky.social saw this, thought of you…
July 4, 2024 at 7:36 AM
@xenogothic.bsky.social saw this, thought of you…