Weekly Round-up

I’ve just had an amazing week in Cambridge as one of eight artist residents on the Collusion Lab for Artifical Intelligence. We were based at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence – a tucked-away building in a courtyard…

In one of the creativity motivation posts I wrote for my Huffington Post blog back in late 2016, I suggested freelancers ‘give yourself a promotion in 2017‘. I recommended making yourself more valuable, add a few more strings to your…

Last Thursday saw the second of the Site Sessions events that I’m curating regularly for the Site Gallery. Our venue was The Roco in Sheffield, I called this one The New Economies because I wanted to stoke some fresh thinking around alternative…

UPDATE: Here’s the audio! Part 1 and Part 2. Apologies for the audio quality on Part 1 and various pops and scuffs. The podium mic wasn’t connected to the mixer. The second half is easier to hear as we’re at the table,…

A quarter of the way through the year already. Don’t know about you, but to me it’s felt really busy. I thought it might help to take stock of the things I’ve done so far. I’ve been making a concerted…

I’m constantly struck by how wildly digital is missing the point when it comes to the arts, as you know. There is such a cosmic boner across arts and tech these days every time we have minor update in technology, that…

I have recently started writing a column for Brandwatch, a digital insights agency with a global profile. I’ve been writing about the digital-related things I feel people are talking about these days, and supporting my column with Brandwatch’s own data analytics…

. We are going to print with HC #12 this month, and the project (as we know it) is drawing to a close. I have occasionally felt a bit down about Hack Circus – an awful lot of people worked…

I’ve been thinking about why 2016 feels a tiny bit empty to me, despite having achieved a few nice things and being very busy. I think it’s simply because every other year since 2010, I’ve put on at least one…

Hack Circus is a magazine, podcast and experimental live show about ‘fantasy technology and everyday magic’ that I’ve produced, directed and self-funded for the last three years. We created 12 editions of a magazine, six sell-out live shows in different…