Founded in 1996, KMA quickly became one of the UK’s leading commercial multimedia design houses working on high-end aesthetics for music videos and event design, with enviable client rostra including Craig David, Kylie Minogue, George Michael, Justin Timberlake, The Brits and Smash!Hits Poll Winners Party.

By 2004 KMA’s prolific activity in the music and stage design fields had begun to sporn two parallel fields of practice in which to expand their experiments with technology: KMA Scripted and KMA Interactive.

KMA Scripted works collaboratively within the broad theatrical tradition (e.g. theatre, film and tv) as directors, writers, inventors and designers. KMA Interactive works independently, as installation artists in the interactive, public realm.

KMA’s interactive work stems from their joint areas of interest in patterns of social behavior and digital technology as a vehicle for public theatre.

KMA’s most recent large-scale interactive installation projects (Flock, Trafalgar Square, 2007; The Hive, Grand Canal Square, Dublin, 2008) have expanded the horizons for how technology can interface with theatrical activity in an emotional and playful way. These pieces are set out of doors, in large urban spaces, without prepared actors or formal participants. The scale of the work creates a vast aesthetic impact on the urban environments in which these works reside, drawing audiences to it, quite often by chance as people go about their daily lives, curiosity draws people in but it is the intelligence of the language structures which layer within these installations which holds the public attention and engages them in problem solving, play and social engagement. By arresting time and space within the public arena and blurring the distinction between performer and audience, KMA’s work is opening up new and vast environments in which art and audiences meet, equally on each other’s terms.

KMA’s recent collaborators and commissioners include; Lloyd Newson / DV8, Darshan Singh Bhuller, The ICA, The Royal Opera House and Dublin Science Gallery. Kit and Tom have also recently completed the visual effects design for a US feature film starring Tom Berenger and Joely Richardson.