Speakers
Joe Baskerville
CogappJoe Baskerville is Head of New Technology at Cogapp and often works on projects that fall outside a digital agency‘s normal areas of development. He can be found experimenting with emerging technologies to use in future work, such as Augmented Reality, multi-touch screens, GPS and mobile devices.
Joe has worked successfully on some of the most challenging and innovative projects Cogapp has seen through in recent times. These include a GPS based in-car marketing tool for Land Rover, an interactive kiosk publishing platform for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Prudential Eye, where he was responsible for all the technical architecture and engine building, enabling four projectors to seamlessly merge separate projections into one ultra-widescreen moving image on a large custom built piece of Holopro glass.
Joe qualified with a BA in Visual Communication Design from Middlesex, worked in the design industry for a number of years, before turning to the dark side and becoming a self-taught coder. However he still enjoys making things look pretty, and has recently taken up knitting.
David Bickerstaff
Newangle and AtomictvBorn in Australia, David Bickerstaff studied fine art (painting), where he developed an interest in performance and time-based art. After a period of working as a professional actor in various film and theatre projects, he moved to the UK in 1989 where he started working with video, print and new media. David founded Atomictv as an umbrella organisation for developing new media projects and collaborations. His artist CD-roms and video works such as ‘Narrenturm’, ‘SONG’, ‘Channel 14’, ‘Muhammad Speaks’, ‘Forró’, ‘Braunschweig Tourist’, and ‘Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl’ have been shown both in Britain and internationally.
He has won various awards for his projects including an Insight Award for Excellence from the National Association of Film and Digital Media Artists in the United States and was a member of the 2004 BAFTA judging panel for Interactive Art. David’s digital and immersive works have been selected for various festivals including onedotzero (London and world tour), Sonar (Spain), Champ Libre (Montreal), FILE (Sao Paulo), with recent films screening at Tate Modern, The Wellcome Trust, Festival International du Film sur L'Art, Montreal and the documentary fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Over the past eight years, David has worked with the multi-media company Newangle, directing and producing commissions for museums and visitor experiences. Recent works include interactive and immersive installations for Kew Palace, the Space Galleries and Planetarium at the Royal Observatory, ‘Surreal Things’ and ‘Cold War Modern’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum, ‘Purple Planet’ at Cadbury World, ‘The First Emperor’ and ‘Shah Abbas’ at the British Museum.
Liam Birtles
squidsoupLiam Birtles is a Senior Lecturer in digital media at the Arts University Bournemouth. He studied 3D design at Newcastle Polytechnic 1989 after which he traveled to America to clean toilets.
In the second half of the 90s he worked as an RA at Coventry University on the Network Virtual Reality Resource Centre for Art and Design, where he developed his interest in 3D and interaction.
Liam's recent work includes the sound installation “wave, then wave again” for Geekfest and the “amblatron” proposal with Tom Reynolds, “in between” for meeting place, and “pathfinder bugs” with squidsoup.
Current interests & themes include the emotional mass of distance and time, a camera to record the soul, loss, the direction of force and an open source model for society. Liam is now working as part of squidsoup on the “ocean of light”.
Andrew Chitty
Illumina DigitalAndrew Chitty is Managing Director of Illumina Digital, one of the UK’s leading convergent media producers, established in 1998 to develop new forms of interactive content and services from TV to the web. Prior to founding Illumina, Andrew pioneered the combination of television production with interactive media while editing the BBC series ‘The Net’ and as an award-winning creative producer for Granada Education, Channel 4 Schools, Microsoft Network and BBC Science.
Andrew is a Board member of TRC and Skillset, and is currently Vice Chair of PACT. In 2007 he co-authored 'A New Approach to Public Service Content in the Digital Age', OFCOM’s policy paper on the proposal for a Public Service Publisher. Andrew also sat on the Steering Board appointed to guide the work of the Digital Britain report published in June 2009.
Sophie Clements
www.sophieclements.comSophie Clements is a visual artist, working specifically in relation to sound and music. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005, her work comprises audio-visual installation, music video, live performance and collaborative work with musicians, all unified by her approach to the ‘visualisation’ of sound or vice versa.
Her recent work in collaboration with Scanner has included Of Air And Ear (2008) at the Royal Opera House. The 6 hour live audiovisual work, commissioned as a piece for Wayne MacGregor’s ‘Deloitte Ignite’ festival, takes the form of a 12m x 5m ‘playable’ light sculpture that reflects the architecture of the Paul Hamlyn Hall in which it was installed. The circular screen structure was designed in direct proportion to the circular forms in the architecture of the Royal Opera House, and forms a double cone measured precisely to the throw of the two projectors, that spans the length of the hall.
Among other collaborations, Sophie has worked with D-Fuse, United Visual Artists (UVA), Tal Rosner and Cybersonica. In 2008 Sophie won the Jerwood Moving Image Award for her piece Evensong – a piece of visual music, sung by layers of landscape and the geometric light forms that emerge from them.
Desiree Collier
MarstellerDesiree is responsible for the day to day management of Marsteller, Burson Marsteller’s Integrated Communications agency. She is a lead digital strategist for Europe as well as a senior member of BM’s global digital task force. She works directly with clients providing strategy, planning, insights and direction across all media formats. Her role includes liaising with all stakeholders to ensure the team deliver against client objectives with a strong focus on measurable deliverables. Desiree was recently short-listed for PRCA PR consultant of the year. Clients include Environment Agency, Diageo, Sony Ericsson, Accenture, Engineering Technology Board, Kew, GSK, Doha 2016 Olympic bid committee, Petroleum Geo-Services, Royal Dutch Shell, and Hydro.
Prior to joining Marsteller in 2006 Desiree worked at Capital Radio plc (now GCap Media) as head of the in-house design and advertising team, she created online visual strategies for all Capital radio stations including Capital FM, XFM and the Century FM network.
Desiree is actively involved within the UK design industry and has judged the Design Week Awards, British Interactive Media Awards, D&AD and Great Britons 2004 Best British Creative for the Royal Society of Arts, Morgan Stanley and the Telegraph. She is a voting member of BAFTA, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from the University College for the Creative Arts, Surrey.
Paul Dawson
Jack Morton WorldwidePaul has been Executive Producer at Jack Morton since 2006. Previous to that he has worked at Spectrum, Stiletto (Now known as ‘The Bank’), MCB and Expertease and he was at Park Avenue Productions for 12 years as Board Director.
Paul's experience of creating major events for global brands has given him an understanding not only of how to overcome the most demanding technical challenges, but also of how to inject creativity and personality into even the largest-scale communications. With nearly 20 years of experience of event and TV production, his clients have included T-Mobile, Orange, Philips, British Airways, Disney, Peugeot, Lexus and General Motors.
Paul's major events include over 20 International Motor Shows for General Motors, events and advertising for British Airways, creating the innovative ‘Street Movies’ brand communication for T-Mobile, and designing and installing ride experiences for both Disneyworld and Disneyland in Florida and Anaheim.
Ed Firth & Shaun O'Connor
MOTHMOTH bridge the divide between club visuals and street art, generating site-specific HD 720p video graffiti designed in response to the morphology, texture and ambience of the spaces and structures of the outside world.
Jens Heinen
VisionLabz and LichtfaktorCivil engineer turned artist, Jens Heinen builds his own visual software, VJs, makes interactive installations and produces visuals for large scale events. Always in search of the undiscovered his work brings different materials and media together to produce a provoking fusion of technologies and programming at the border of electronic art.
With the “lightprinter” Jens is able to paint logos, words and patterns as if they are printed in the air – the next step in “lightwriting”.
Daniel Hirschmann
Jason Bruges StudioDaniel Hirschmann is a South Africa-born artist who uses technology, relationships and spontaneity to enable his artistic practice. His portfolio includes responsive sculpture, interactive spaces and generative prints which have been exhibited in shows around the world. He built on his Fine Arts studies with a Masters at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program – where he specialised in physical computing and interactive sculpture. Before moving to London he was invited to join Fabrica – Benetton’s creativity hub in Northern Italy – where he co-founded the Physical Computing lab. At Jason Bruges Studio Daniel’s understanding of physically responsive technologies and relational aesthetics are combined with architecture, site specificity and interaction design.
Seb Lee-Delisle
Plug-in MediaSeb has been working in digital media for over 15 years and is one of the founding partners of UK Flash specialists Plug-in Media, working with clients such as BBC, Sony, Philips, Unilever. and Barclays.
He is also one of the developers of Papervision3D, the highly successful open source realtime 3D actionscript library.
Seb‘s work with Plug-in Media has pushed the boundaries of 3D and gaming in Flash. He has recently completed the live 3D GameDay visualisations for Major League Baseball and a ground breaking realtime 3D website for the BBC kids‘ show Big and Small.
He is a regular face on the international Flash conference scene, and has presented at Flash on the Beach, FITC, and FlashForward. He is known for his ability to communicate seemingly complex subject-matter in a friendly and accessible way. He is the manager of FlashBrighton, a Flash platform user group.
Malcolm Garrett RDI
Applied Information GroupMalcolm Garrett is a creative director at the graphic design consultancy Applied Information Group (AIG), which has offices in London and Vancouver. He is also creative director of the i-Design conference, and dynamolondon.org, an online forum for the interactive design industry. With over three decades of design experience, he has worked with all manner of communications, arts and entertainment media. His work throughout the 80s with musicians such as Buzzcocks, Duran Duran, Simple Minds and Peter Gabriel is widely regarded as having a seminal influence on contemporary graphic design. For the last two decades he has been particularly interested in user-experience and interface design for interactive media, across a range of platforms from web through to interactive cinema.
He is a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), and is a member of the RDI Executive Committee. He is a Visiting Professor at Central St Martins. He sits on the Eye Magazine Editorial Board, the Skillset Interactive Skills Council, and is a past member of the Interactive Entertainments Committee at BAFTA. He is a Founding Member of 5D: the Future of Immersive Design.
Andy Huntington
filmitExtraversion
Andy Huntington is an interaction designer and artist working with software and hardware, prototyping and development.
His main interest is creating playful interactive objects and experiences for galleries, museums and studios. He has worked with a variety of companies and organizations such as the BBC, The Science Museum, Nokia, Benetton, The Helen Hamlyn Trust, Schulze & Webb, Snibbe Interactive, and the Bartlett School of Architecture.
He completed an MA in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in 2005 where he specialised in developing musical interfaces. Prior to that he gained a BA in Commercial Music at the University of Westminster in 2001, during the last 2 years of which he became increasingly interested in interactive music technologies. In 2000 he joined London based studio Romandson as a sound designer/composer completing a number of projects for web, CDrom and exhibition. Following this period he spent 18 months as a consultant in the interactive department at Fabrica (Benetton’s Communication Research Centre, in Treviso, Italy) creating performance software, DVDs, CDroms, soundtoys, a 4 month interactive exhibition called DARE at The American Museum of the Moving Image (New York) and developing United People (a video messaging system for Benetton stores).
Recently he has co-directed and developed Open Futures filmit for the Helen Hamlyn Trust which provides a simple platform and framework for video making and sharing in primary schools in the UK and India.
Tali Krakowsky
Wet DesignAs Director of Experience Design, Tali is heading a think-tank at WET Design. Throughout her career, Tali has had a leading role in strategic and conceptual developments for clients such as the Museum of Modern Art, Frank Gehry, Airbus, IBM, the Grimaldi Forum, and Victoria’s Secret. In addition to her work, Tali has published several articles on design, architecture, and innovation through collaboration, and is a frequent speaker on the topic of design, technology, and architecture.
Born in Israel and raised in Hong Kong, Tali holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Design and a Master of Arts from UCLA’s School of Architecture, with a thesis on interactive architecture.
Nico Macdonald
Nico Macdonald | SpyNico Macdonald writes and consults on innovation, design and media. He is author of What is Web Design? (RotoVision), and has written for most of the key design publications in the UK and US. He created the ground-breaking AIGA Experience Design London community of interest and through this evemt series and the Designing the Internet (1996) and Design For Usability (2000) conferences helped develop interaction design thinking and practice in the UK. Most recently he founded the Innovation Reading Circle and Innovation Forum to encourage high level and cross disciplinary debate around innovation.
Tim Milne
MatterboxIn 1981, at the age of 20, Tim Milne looked at the printing industry and saw an opportunity to create a more interpretive service that bridged creativity and manufacturing. Artomatic made printing creative rather than merely reproductive and pioneered a tactile visual language we now see every day.
As the world turned its attention to the Internet, he became fascinated with consumers’ interaction with printed objects and pondered their future role in a digital world. He re-invented Artomatic as a consultancy and much-copied retail concept that introduced urban art to London and told a new story about the value of printed matter.
He watched his customers’ fascination and excitement at the things in his shop and wondered how objects could be used to communicate ideas. He came up with the idea for Matterbox – a three-dimensional advertising medium for the digital age. He helps Royal Mail develop Matter in the UK.
He divides his time between London and Richmond, Virginia.
Ross Phillips
SHOWstudioRoss Phillips is Creative Technical Director at SHOWstudio. After completing a BA in Time-Based Media at UWE Bristol, he immediately went to work at AMX, specialising in enhanced CDs, viral games, mobile content delivery and Interactive TV. Phillips then completed an MA in Hypermedia at Westminster before moving to Treviso, Italy to work at Fabrica, Benetton’s Communication Research Center. Working with Andy Cameron, Phillips produced interactive installations for Benetton Megastores; this work can still be seen in locations including London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Lisbon and Milan. Notable projects include: ‘IN/OUT’, a CD-ROM of sound toys published by Benetton; ‘UNITED PEOPLE’, a kiosk that allows users from all over the world to send and receive video messages from a Benetton store, and a four month exhibition entitled ‘DARE’, at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York.
Since joining SHOWstudio in 2003, Phillips has been working on online and location based installations, including ‘Taking Liberty’s’, an installation in the window of Liberty, Regent St, and ‘Tokyo Style Clash’, based at the Beams Superstore in Tokyo. Recent work includes two projects in the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale and three interactives in the last Science Museum exhibition, ‘The Science of Spying’. He was nominated in the interactive category of the Designs Museum’s ‘Designs of the Year’ 2008 award and showed work as part of ‘Design Cities’ at the Istanbul Modern.
Nicolas Roope
PokeFrom leading creative practitioner and cofounder of Antirom in 1995, though to creative director roles at Oven Digital and Poke, Nicolas has always looked beyond industry rhetoric to the inspiring truths of interactive networked media; this passion driving his career in the business spanning the last fifteen years. He has creatively driven numerous high profile projects and personal initiatives, picking up world class awards all along the way.
Nicolas was appointed member of the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 2006 and is the UK‘s Webby Ambassador. He is also a UK Coolbrands board member.
In 2004 Nicolas also founded Hulger, another creative slant on technology, but in this instance physical. Two of Hulger‘s phone designs and their Plumen low energy light bulb concept were included in MoMA New York‘s permanent design collection in 2008.
Adrian Shaughnessy
ShaughnessyWorksAdrian Shaughnessy is a self-taught graphic designer based in London. He spent 15 years as creative director of Intro, the design studio he co-founded. Adrian left Intro in 2004 to pursue an interest in writing, and to work as an independent design consultant. Today he runs ShaughnessyWorks, a consultancy combining design and editorial direction.
Adrian has written and art directed numerous books on design including the Sampler series, a trio of books devoted to radical music graphics. His most recent publication is Cover Art By:, a survey of current music graphics.
In 2005, he published How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul. It has been published in numerous languages and has sold 60,000 copies. He is currently working on a follow up entitled A User’s Guide: an A-Z of Graphic Design.
He is editor of Varoom: The Journal of Illustration and Made Images, and writes regularly for Eye and Creative Review. He is a contributing writer to Design Observer, the most widely read design blog in the world. He has a monthly column in Design Week and is a contributor to avant-garde music magazine The Wire.
Adrian has been interviewed on television and radio, and lectures extensively around the world. He hosts a radio show called Graphic Design on the Radio, on Resonance FM.
Andrew Shoben
GreyworldAndrew Shoben is the founder of Greyworld, a world renowned artists' collective who create art in public spaces. His work finds expression through the mediums of installation, sculpture and multiples. His primary objective is to create public art that involves the human in an urban context. greyworld has created works in some hugely coveted locations across the world, and they now have permanent installations in twelve countries.
In 2004 he launched The Source, a permanent installation for the London Stock Exchange that opens the markets every morning. It was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and is watched by millions everyday on television. Earlier this year Andrew launched Invisible, a large scale and multi-sited work in Burnley UK with the support of Channel Four's Big Art Project. The documentary to accompany the project was aired on Channel 4 in late autumn 2008. Andrew is Professor of Public Art and Computation at Goldsmiths University.
David Taylor
Arup, Arts and CultureDavid is a theatre designer and planner who has led some of the most acclaimed arts building projects of the last decade, including the Kodak Theatre for the Oscars©, Disney’s New Amsterdam and Hyperion Theatres, the new halls for the orchestras in Philadelphia, Seattle, Kansas City and Miami Beach, and the new opera houses in Dallas and Kansas City. David now leads the Performing Arts Sector for Arup, the world’s leading sustainable design and engineering firm, where he sits on the Social Infrastructure Executive. He is currently designing new theatres for Baryshnikov and The Wooster Group, for DanspaceProject and Toronto’s Sony Centre and upgrades to the Sydney Opera House and the renowned Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis.
Two strong themes define his work – engaging new audiences with performing arts clients and venues, and developing long range strategies to maintain sustainable arts companies and environments. David continues to design sets and lighting for opera, dance and theatre, most recently as lighting director for the largest live Bollywood stage show at the National Theatre in India, as well as teaching graduate theatre design studies and film making to highschoolers.
Bill Thompson
Technology criticNew media pioneer Bill Thompson is a journalist, commentator and technology critic based in Cambridge, England. He has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984.
Indeed, Bill knows everything there is to know about technologies, and future technologies. He is a bona fide expert. Back in the nineties, he set up The Guardian website, a groundbreaker that paved the way for many other similar online sites. Later, he became the Ambassador for Pipex, a position that meant for much public speaking, introducing the masses to the company and its many benefits.
Currently, Bill keeps himself busy with his weekly column, the BillBoard, which appears in the technology section of the BBC News website, while also contributing to other off and on-line publications, including The Times, The Register, and The New Statesman. Additionally, he writes a monthly column for new net users for BBC WebWise, and a technology column for Focus magazine.
Bill is a visiting lecturer at City University where he teaches Online Journalism, an external editor for OpenDemocracy.net and a consultant for wattwatt, the energy efficiency blog, as well as the Editor and Systems Administrator for the Working 4, an MP website.
Needless to say, Bill is an experienced, educational and inspiring after-dinner, keynote and public speaker. He is much in demand by those wanting to prepare for the future and whatever technological changes it might bring. Clients are impressive and include many financial, medical and media bodies.
Martyn Ware
Future of SoundIllustrious
In 1978, Martyn Ware formed the band The Human League. He established the music production company and label British Electric Foundation in 1980 and formed Heaven 17 the same year. Ware has written, performed and produced two Human League, two BEF, and nine Heaven 17 albums. He founded Illustrious Company with Vince Clarke in 2001 to explore the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique three-dimensional sound technology in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts, and corporate clients around the world. Martyn Ware produces and presents a series of events entitled “Future of Sound” around the world, and created sonic architectural works at the British Pavilion at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2006.
He is a Visiting Professor at the University of London, a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a patron of Arts & Business. He also lectures extensively on music production, technology, at universities and colleges across the world and runs the world-leading soundbranding agency Sonic ID.
