source code

Ars Electronica was my first international new media festival and a blast on many levels which started even before I’d landed. As I was reading the program on the plane somewhere between Canada and Europe, I looked out of the window and saw laid out in the landscape, a giant circuit board in the pattern of the roads and fields. A portent of thing to come… (more…)

In November 2003 I attended a two week training workshop in a new community network, software and resource base called Nine(9).  The workshop was one in a series convened by the artist group Mongrel Inc, and was held at the Jelliedeel Shop in Southend-On-Sea, the infamous Cockneys’ Escape, sixty minutes due east of London, overlooking the slave/pirate/smuggler mud where the River Thames becomes sea.  (more…)

Rule 1: Adults do not play games, therefore Australia does not require an adult rating on computer games, and any game requiring an adult rating will be automatically banned in Australia. (more…)