Alistair Gentry

His short stories, novels, and sci-fi writings were both self-published and found in small presses such as Pulp Books.

In 2005 Gentry was commissioned by Radiator Festival For New Technology Art in Nottingham to deliver a series of nightly live-streamed performances in which they played an astronaut journeying to Mars, sharing information from memory about space exploration and the history of human's ambition to colonise new lands (titled Nowhere Plains). In 2018 Gentry began a series of performances as a character called DoxBox trustbot which interviewed participants about the apps on their smartphones and questioned their awareness of the data that the service providers held on them through usage of these services. DoxBox trustbot, described as a digital puppet or tech drag unit, addressed digital trustworthiness in a comedic and personal manner at London Data Week and The Open Data Institute summit as well as Furtherfield Future Fair. Originally developed as part of an R&D project funded by Innovate UK, the final performance of what was called the 'fake fake AI' was in 2023, prior to the widespread use of chatbots and AI assistants. In 2023 Gentry was commissioned by The Photographers Gallery London for the Screen Walks series, offering a 'sleazy' tour of Soho and Fitzrovia as part of Gentry's long-standing artistic practice of making up tourist attractions to draw attention to other histories of people and place. In this walk Gentry revealed the hidden locations of corporate tech companies.