The Challenge of Conventions

I'm winded by that last post, so this one is now a series of bullet-points that I hope to expand upon later.This is a post that Annette ...

Papa Bound Conventions

I spoke last week at the Media Arts Festival at the Roundhouse, on a panel on games chaired by Clare Reddington chair of the Pervasive Media...

Make Believe by Jimmy Stewart

I was asked along to deliver a 5-minute provocation to Wonderlab today, and posting the essay here by request.--------------------------Hell...

Horses for Courses

This is a placeholder for a full post I should write about different digital platforms and how and why people use them.This arising from a d...

999999

The most famous sequence of numbers in pi is the Feynman Point which comprises the 762nd through 767th decimal places of pi '...999999...

WorldCupLondon

It's the World Cup. And maybe no better place outside South Africa to watch it than London, where every nation of the world lives somewh...

Nostalgia, perfectly formed

North/South

I flew east from London on Thursday afternoon.The plane looped north of Iceland to avoid any ash 15000 feet beneath, then over northern Gree...

Please come to the Opera House, Langtry

Out in Texas on a road-trip, I drove west as far as Langtry, as far as I dared before I had to turn again to reach Austin in time. It was a ...

Time, it's a funny thing

I did a Peachy Coochy - the live art world's version of Pecha Kucha - on request of Tipping Point last summer as part of a night of refl...

Ryan Stevens and the Man from Mars

RyanStevensAnd a smattering of our lovely audience. Photos by Paul Bennun.Jimmy Stewart... strode into performance at BAC earlier this month...

Small Town revisited

Here's a video documenting, as much as is possible in a short video, something of what it was like to be in A Small Town Anywhere.Small ...

Playing in a city

Following are my notes from a panel I spoke at in Tokyo as part of Connected, the British Council's expedition taking a bunch of interac...

Pecha Kucha Fail

I was at the Dana Centre last night delivering a Pecha Kucha as part of Technology You Can't Live Without, curated by the splendid Aleks...

Tokyo > Mars > Texas

I haven't been here in a while, I've been in other places.Spent last week in Tokyo as part of the British Council's Connected ga...

Snorkels

The London Snorkelling Team gig at the Vortex. This really is it. A meticulously playful quartet of Tom Haines, Chris Branch, Pascal Wyse an...

Darkness overcomes the city

A gem via Old Hollywood, which I'm posting so as not to lose for myself: production shot of preparing Mephistophiles for Murnau's Fa...