Pope's early work was in the field of new media art: He was a member of the seminal net.art collective I/O/D (1992-99), whose Web Stalker won a nomination for Prix Ars Electronica (1997) and a Webby Award (2000), and was included in Rhizome’s new media art show at the New Museum, New York (2017).

In 2003 Pope represented Wales at their inaugural exhibition at the Venice Biennale of Fine Art, which coincided with a fellowship award from the UK National Endowment for Science Technology and Art (2002-05) to explore the social modalities of walking as art – especially in the production of art through walking together.

From 2000-2010, Pope was a lecturer (Associate Professor) and Reader (Professor) in the UK, leading MFA and MA Fine art programmes, and also taught masters and undergraduate level programmes in Canada and Belgium and given artist-talks at universities, art schools. and galleries internationally.