Emit Snake-Beings (aka Snakebeings) is a New Zealand based multi-media visual artist and Sound artist who works in Kinetic art, Sacred art, sculpture, tuned noise music,and Underground film and is currently residing in Auckland, New Zealand.

Born in the Royal Free hospital in Islington, London Emit was moved by his parents to the new town of Welwyn Garden City where he grew up under the combined influences of the cold war and the garden city social engineering, which was immanent in the excessive structures of town planning. At the age of 20, after studying art and design at the University of Hertfordshire he moved to London to pursue a career in art, where he Lived and worked in the economically depressed Hackney, London between the years 1987 and 1998. During this time he encountered diverse influences, including underground film, Santaria, Anarchism, squatting, outsider art, art collectives, installations using found material, and site-specific installation art. All of which was going on in the relative obscurity of one of the poorest areas of london. In 2000 Emit moved to Hamilton, New Zealand, continuing to work with multi-media projects including street theatre and the organisation of a 13 piece semi-scripted and improvisation orchestra called The Kaosphere orchestra. In 2006 he founded the Hamilton Underground Film Festival now in its 6th year (2011)