It’s been a busy couple of months. I’ve been to Wakefield, Leeds, Birmingham, Berlin, London and Dublin (some twice!) speaking, teaching and presenting, having speculative meetings and just having chats with great people, and it’s been really brilliant. Most recently,…
Innovation out of context
There’s an abbreviated (and probably better for it) version of this on the British Council blog. Read that instead if you’re short of time. I don’t usually think of myself as an ‘innovator’ because I’m old enough to remember…
Stop having ideas
I’ve completely changed my mind about something. I used to talk about ‘making things fast’ and the great power that comes with the ability to generate masses of ideas. It doesn’t matter if they’re rubbish, I said, just make them…
Talk for Open Platform at the Do It Anyway festival
Here’s the talk I wrote for Open Platform’s “A Random Process” experiment at Sheffield Access Space’s “Do It Anyway” festival, this weekend. It’s basically a development of my lightening talk for Future Everything. There were a handful of presenters/performers going up…
The year so far and Leviathan
I never seem to blog anymore. Thought I’d get things going with some recent news. It’s almost half-way through the year. The story so far 2015 has been a year of professional anxiety so far, really. I feel like I’ve done…
Everything I know about sales
Hack Circus costs a bloody fortune. I am less than half way through what is, without doubt, the most expensive three years of my life so far. I think I knew it would be hard, but I didn’t know why…
The age of fun is over
In 2011, at the first Culture Hack event, I did a talk called “What if we have fun?” It was only short, but I talked about the value of subversion when engaging with tech – turning stuff inside out and…
Why I don’t want to talk about Hack Circus yet (but I will say this)
Haven’t blogged for ages! I’ve been a bit busy. A few things have happened. We made an amazing event and a new issue of the magazine, then I went to Greece for two weeks. More interesting, maybe, is what didn’t…
Starship Hack Circus
Citizens,You will by now be aware that we have been receiving radio signals from Earth-like planet KOI-3284.01. There has been much debate over protocol, but the longer governments and space agencies take to wrestle with the politics of response, the more…
Reflections on a residency
My three-month residency at Brighton’s Lighthouse Arts came to an end this week. We finished with a bang of flashing lights and music and paper radios and my BBC BASIC slides, and BBC Click came to film us working for…