GRAHAM HARWOOD has lived and worked with Matsuko Yokokoji (YoHa English translation ‘aftermath’) since 1994. YoHa’s graphic vision, technical tinkering, has powered several celebrated collaborations establishing an international reputation for pioneering arts projects, including the first on-line commission from the Tate Gallery London and work in the permanent collections of the Pompidou Centre, ZKM and Manifesta07. Harwood […]
NIGEL TYRELL is currently Head of Environment for the London Borough of Lewisham. He has a particular interest in the development and application of mobile technology. In 2004 he founded ‘LoveLewisham’ to draw residents and council workers together in posting real-time images of environmental problems to the web using mobile devices. LoveLewisham has inspired similar projects […]
DR JENNIFER GABRYS is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Principal Investigator on the European Research Council starting grant, “Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice.” Her work investigates environments, material processes and digital technologies through theoretical and practice-based work. Projects within this area include Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (University […]
OLIVIA SOLON is a writer and editor specialising in technology, science startups and digital culture. Currently Associate Editor of Wired.co.uk, she has also had work published in The Telegraph, Marketing Week, GQ, Music Week, and Frukt Source. Prior to working at Wired, she spent five years as a business journalist focusing on the media and marketing […]
DOLAN CUMMINGS is an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Ideas, having been its research and editorial director from 2001 to 2010. He continues to edit the IoI’s online review Culture Wars , where he writes about books, films and theatre. He is also one of the co-founders of the Manifesto Club, a campaign group for freedom in […]
KASPER DE GRAAF is a specialist in enterprise communication and information strategy, with experience of delivering large-scale innovative projects in the commercial sector as well as for national and local government in the UK and elsewhere. He is CEO of Images and previously a partner at 53K LLP, managing director at Applied Information Group and at Assorted […]
DAVID BARNARD-WILLS researches the politics of security and surveillance technologies. He is a Senior Research Analyst at Trilateral Research & Consulting LLP, and has previously been a Research Fellow at Cranfield University and the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Surveillance and Identity: Discourse, Subjectivity and the State, blogs at www.surveillantidentity.com, and is @dbarnardwills […]
DAVID MATTHEWS is an award-winning writer and journalist who has written for the Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, Esquire and the Mail on Sunday. David also wrote and presented the highly acclaimed three-part documentary series for BBC3, The Trouble With Black Men. His debut book, Looking for a Fight, was short-listed for the 2001 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and tells […]
CATHI UNSWORTH is the author of four pop-cultural crime novels, Weirdo (2012), Bad Penny Blues (2009), The Singer (2007) and The Not Knowing (2005) and the editor of the award-winning crime compendium London Noir (2006), all on Serpent’s Tail. She began her career as a music journalist on the weekly paper Sounds in 1987 and […]
FRANCESCA PANETTA is a multi award-winning producer and sound artist. She is currently working as Special Projects Editor leading on innovation in storytelling and new platforms, at The Guardian’s audio department. She also works as an independent producer and sound artist. She specialises in feature montage with specific attention to sound-design as illustrated in her Hackney Podcasts. She has won awards […]
PETER CUSACK is a field recordist and sound artist with a special interest in acoustic ecology. He initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project” to discover what people find positive about their everyday sound environment and ‘Sounds From Dangerous Places’ (described as sonic journalism) that investigates the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage such as oil […]
JOHN LEVACK DREVER is a sonic artist and soundscape researcher with a focus on the minutiae of everyday soundscapes, background noise and human utterance. His practice bridges collaborative art practice, electronic music, environmental acoustics and social sciences. He is a Senior Lecturer in Composition and head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research at Goldsmiths, […]
CHRISTIAN NOLD is an artist, designer and researcher working to develop new participatory models and technologies for communal representation. He has written the books ‘Mobile Vulgus’ (2001) and ‘Internet of People for a Post-Oil World’ (2011) with Rob van Kranenburg and edited ‘Emotional Cartographies – Technologies of the Self’ (2009). He has led many large […]
EMILIE GILES is a producer, artist and educator. Her work spans creative technology, pervasive gaming and maker culture. She is based in London and works for Codasign as Producer and as an educational expert for Technology Will Save Us. Emilie also runs workshops for MzTEK, an organisation that aims to encourage more women to learn skills in creative technology. She […]
MATTHEW FULLER is author of various books including ‘Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture’, (MIT) ‘Behind the Blip, essays on the culture of software’ and ‘Elephant & Castle’. (both Autonomedia). With Usman Haque, he is co-author of ‘Urban Versioning System v1.0′ (ALNY) and with Andrew Goffey, of ‘Evil Media’. (MIT). Editor of ‘Software Studies, […]
AJIT JAOKAR is the founder of the London based research company futuretext which specialises in identifying and researching cross-domain technology trends. In 2009, Ajit was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Future of the Internet’ council. In 2011, he was nominated to the World Smart Capital program (Amsterdam). Ajit moderates/chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel and […]
The ex-Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo once said “Internet + Internet of things = Wisdom of the earth” Indeed the Internet of Things revolution promises to transform many domains .. Here, I present a personal, citizen centric and a realistic view of where it is going. It is the basis of my Smart city talk at […]