The Hardest Button to Button
is the one that unlocks your imagination, and locks it up again. This is a space for unbuttoning.
View ArticleI edit; you censor; they oppress
There’s a well known verb declension in the online world we edit you censor they oppress I was reminded of it by Emily Bell’s excellent piece in Sunday’s Guardserver (what else can we call it on...
View Article‘Applied for and evidenced’
According to the recent report on Operation Alice, the Met’s investigation into ‘plebgate’, the rather unfortunate ‘incident in Downing Street involving the Rt. Hon Andrew Mitchell MP and police...
View ArticleFringeweb – where it began.
One morning in August 1994 I woke up in a large, airy flat somewhere in Edinburgh. Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc were making breakfast, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring were getting ready for another day...
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“The future of creativity”
The quotes are intentional. I was asked to give the opening talk at the CREATe ‘All Hands’ conference in Glasgow last week, which took place in the House for An Art Lover. House for an Art Lover CREATe...
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Reclaim the Net
Looking at Gothic On October 2nd I gave a talk at the Cybersalon event ‘Reclaim the Net‘ and had an excellent time. There’s a video. There was an audience, including Christian Payne and Richard...
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The Information Age Gallery: our Chartres Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral Chartres Cathedral The Information Age Gallery at the Science Museum is not simply a museum gallery. It is a powerful testament to the world we have created through our growing...
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Shifting the Platform
PLATFORM shift+ is an artistic network created to meet the new challenges of producing theatre for young people in the digital age, recognising the urgent need to engage with digital technology at a...
View ArticleThe Magic is In Your Head
On January 8 I took part in an event at Watershed in Bristol around the Stories of Change project, along with Mandy Rose, Director of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE Bristol and Joe Smith...
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Two days in Paris
I’m in Paris, chairing the EuropeanaTech conference in the Bibliotheque Nationale – details here and the hashtag is #eurtech15 over on Twitter. Jacob Lundqvist took this lovely pic of my talk at the...
View ArticleThe Great Charter
If you head over to the BBC World Service website you can – until July 9 at least – listen to a one hour radio drama that is concerned with some of the big issues that face us over the next decade,...
View ArticleState of the Network
I’m fortunate enough to be invited to speak at OpenTech each year, and to give what has come to be known as a ‘State of the Network’ address. Here’s this years – published as I stand up to speak....
View ArticleThe Cruelty of the First Law of Robotics
There is a scene towards the very end of Humans (@humansamc on Twitter) – so look away now if you haven’t got that far – where one of the humanoid robots or ‘synths’ is so cruelly treated that it has...
View ArticleThe Open Web and Its Enemies
This lecture builds on my thinking over many years, going back to my essay Damn the Constitution in 2002[1]. It also owes much to research and thinking done for a lunchtime lecture organised by Digital...
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The Road from Jarrow Docks
I have lived in two towns that were destroyed by economic change and government policy. This may explain why I’ve lived in Cambridge for so long, because the place does have resiliency, and the...
View ArticleGiving the BBC a purpose. Or six.
In Sunday’s Telegraph someone claimed to have heard that the proposed new BBC Charter would not include one of its current public purposes: Delivering to the public the benefit of emerging...
View ArticleWhere Next?
In her book The New Propaganda, written in 1937/8, the British feminist and scholar Amber Wells Blanco White (read about her here… ) dissects the use of modern communications technologies to support...
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Doctor Bill…
Sort of. After a ceremony today at Anglia Ruskin University’s Chelmsford campus I how have an Honorary Doctorate of Arts, which is a very fine thing. You can read the citation over on the ARU website....
View ArticleSometimes you get it wrong… sorry, Steve
It’s ten years to the day since Steve Jobs launched the iPhone and defined the shape of the portable networked computers that now dominate our lives and act as the portal between real and virtual...
View ArticleThinking Out Loud: Technology and the Arts
For the last three years I’ve held a seminar for the students on the ‘Experience’ Module of the MA Arts & Cultural Management at King’s College London, where we consider the development and likely...
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