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2009
I have a blog for inspiration / odd things here
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2008
My main
focus these days is on the production of Mr
Jones Watches and also of Tengu.
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October 2007
I will
be doing a talk at Camberwell
College of Arts.
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8-12
October 2007
In Milan
to teach a workshop at NABA with
Laura Perin from ID-Lab
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2
October 2007
I will
be doing a short talk as part of the This
Happened... event (I will talk about the development of Tengu).
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19
- 23 September 2007
It's
London Design Week - I will be exhibiting at
designersblock
in the Nicolls and Clarke building on Shoreditch High Street. I will be
showing the Monster Tengu alsongside the Mr Jones Watches.
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May - 2 September 2007
One
of the first series of Mr
Jones Watches will be on display as part of the exhibition "On
Time" at the Museum
für Gestaltung Zürich.
Remember You will die...
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May 2007
I'm
doing a talk at the RCA in the
as part of the Design Products Professional Practice Lecture series.
Design
Products 8th Floor Seminar Room from 6pm
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Milan
2007
I'm
showing some work at several shows in Milan during Salone Del Mobile:
18-23 April 2007 - Designersblock
(pv 17th April from 18:00)
I'm
showing the Mr Jones
Watches and the Tengu at Designersblock:
Studio Romeo Gigli
via Angelo Fumagalli 6
20143 Milano
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April 2007 (10-22:30) -British Design Day
I'm
showing the Mr Jones
Watches at the British Design Day:
Consul-General’s Residence,
4th Floor, Piazza Sant’Ambrogio 10,
Milano
18-21
April 2007 - NABABOOM (Cocktail
Wednesday 18th April 8pm)
I'm
showing the some more Tengu's at the NABA show:
Nouvo Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA),
Via C.Darwin 20.
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11 April 2007
Did a presentation of some of my work at Pecha Kucha at the ICA here in London - I showed the Mr Jones Watches in public for the very first time (and they seemed to go down quite well!)
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22 February 2007
Doing a presentation of my work to students at Ravensbourne College.
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9 February 2007
I will be doing a presentation on my work to students at ITP in New York. Details here
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31 January 2007
Did a presentation of my work to the MA Textile Futures and MA ID students at Central St Martins.
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25
January 2007
I was
at the RCA as a guest tutor reviewing the Design
Interactions Interim Show 2007.
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23
January 2007
Did
a short talk about my work and some tutorials with some MA
in Design - Critical Theory and Practice students at Goldsmiths College.
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November 2006
Whilst
I was in Japan recently a TV company filmed me discussing the UMPC project,
they transmitted the short item about me and the project , "Harmony
of wisdom" on TV Tokyo today.
You
can see a stream of it here
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November 2006
I'm
doing a presentation of my work at Schooling Pad - this is the third time
which I have prevented there - once in each of their three terms. Also
I am featured in the book they published recently.
Schooling Pad
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4
November 2006
I'm
speaking super briefly at the "Peace Needs a New Logo" event
at the UN University.
Peace needs
a new logo
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31
October 2006
I'm
speaking at Design UK Pecha Kucha at Superdeulxe tonight.
Pecha
Kucha
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October 2006
I will
be in Japan showing the tablet PC design I made for PBJ at 100% Design Tokyo
100% Design Tokyo
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September 2006
I will
be speaking at the Icon Flypitch event at the ICA. My speaking slot is
at 2pm.
Icon
Flypitch
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September 16th 2006
I am
producing a stall for the Traveling Apothecary exhibition which is a one
day event at London Design Week. I am making a stall which cures people
of Ikeamania - the cure is effected by shaking hands with an Electric
Lady.
Traveling
Apothecary
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August
2006
Mr Jones
watches will be featured as part of ISEA2006
in San Jose
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July
2006
The
Human Screen Proposal and
Energy Shutdown are both featured in Lucy Buillivant's new book
Responsive Environments.
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June
2006
In Japan
for various projects - gave a presentation of my work to the second group
of students at Schooling
Pad and meeting with PBJ
to discuss our ongoing collaboration
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May
25 2006
Gave
a presentation of my work to students of 3D
Design at Camberwell College.
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April
2006
I
am teaching one day a week on the Interaction Design course at the RCA
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March
2 2006
I'll
be showing the Social
Mobiles at the Soapbox event at the Dana
Center
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February
2006
Katazukue
and Mr Jones Watches
are being exhibited in Yokohama as part of the
Electrical Fantasia exhibition.
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January
2006
Robson
& Jones have a new exhibit which we built in conjunction with Ab Rogers
Design at the Science Museum in London. The exhibit tells the story of
the winner of the 2005 MacRobert Award - CSR.
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January - March
2006
I am teaching
on a project run by Rachel
Wingfield at Central St Martins on the MA
Textile Futures course..
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November
26 2005
Speaking at the
Arduino Workshop
which is being run by Massimo Banzi in London.
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November
24-25 2005
Speaking at the
Ambient and Augmented
symposium at the Architectural Association in London.
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November
2nd 2005
Speaking at the
Y'innovation
forum in Yokohama.
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October
28th 2005
Opening of BankArtLife
exhibition in Yokohama where I am exhibiting a new piece: Katazukue, the
tidy table.
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October
24th 2005
Presented the
Mr Jones Watches video at PechaKucha
night Vol 27 at SuperDeluxe
in Tokyo.
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October
24th 2005
Talk in Kyoto
organised by Kyoto Seika University.
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October
21st & 31st 2005
Talk
at Vantan Art and
Design Institute.
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October
13 2005
I Delivered a
lecture at Nagoya University of the Arts.
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October
2005
I will be spending
October in Japan, amongst other things I will be running a workshop
in Setagaya at IID.
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June
2005
I've been working
with e1 exhibiton unit at Interaction Ivrea on the design and production
of a set of interactive maps for the Venice Biennale. The two physical
maps are installed in the Arsenale and the Giardini.
e1
Exhibition Unit
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June
2005
The Social Mobiles
(well three of them) will be appearing in the exhibition "Touch Me"
at the V&A Museum in London.
V&A
Touch Me Exhibition
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May 2005
The prototypes
I have been developing are in an exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography. The second set of prototypes is being evaluated
by Elekit at their headquarters to determine whether to produce it.
Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Elekit
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May 2005
I have been teaching for the past nine months on The Future Something Project, working with a group of young people in Worthing developing their skills as interaction designers. We held an exhibiton in Brighton which was very well received.
Future Something
Project
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April
12th 2005
Speaking at Bergen
University at a seminar on Interaction Design.
Interaction Design
Seminar
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January
- July 2005
Working one week
per month at Interaction Ivrea in their Exhibition Unit (E1)
Interaction
Ivrea
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February
19th 2005
Participating
(via i-Chat) in artdemo.05 in Yokohama, Japan.
I will be presenting the proposals that I have made for the E+ Project
for Elekit
coolstates
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December
4th 2004
Speaking at the
Mobile Futures Symposium in Bremen.
http://www.magni7icent.net/
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November
2004
Working in Ivrea
on interactive exhibits for an exhibition in Venice.
Interaction Ivrea
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November
2004
Watch project
released. Already featured on a number of blogs:
core77
We
Make Money Not Art
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July
2004
Energy Shutdown
a new exhibit for the Science Museum is (touch wood) finished. The exhibit
which is part of the 'Energy - fuelling the future' gallery opens on July
23rd. This was made as part of Robson
and Jones in collaboration with KRD.
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May 2004
Electrophile
is featured on neural.it an Italian website which has loads of interesting
content in the new media / hacking area. Not entirely sure why they're
featuring it now.
Electrophile
on neural.it
Neural in English
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April
14 - 19 2004
An Invisible
Force is being exhibited at Salone Del Mobile as part of the Interaction
Design Institute Ivrea exhibition, "This
is today".The exhibition is taking place at:Milan Triennale,
Viale Alemagna 6.
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January
23 2004
Talking with
Stefano Mirti at a one day conference in Milan about designers' use of
video organised by Simone Muscolino
Il
progetto, video.
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November
2003
Working in Ivrea
again with Stefano Mirti, teaching and working on proposals for an Interaction
Ivrea exhibition.
Interaction Ivrea
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September
2003
Social Mobiles
will be featured in the Ars Electronica Center 'Museum of the Future'
exhibition for the next 12 months. I will go to Linz to attend the festival.
Ars Electronica Center
Social Mobiles in the Museum of the Future
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I have been invited to participate in Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2003. The exhibition will be in the Panasonic Center in Ariake.
www.daf-tokyo.jp
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Interaction Design Institute Ivrea first exhibition of graduating students. Some of the work I did with Michael Kieslinger on fluidtime will be exhibitied.
www.interaction-ivrea.it
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user_mode conference at Tate Modern in London. I will be talking about the use of pain in interactive artworks. You can see a video stream of the talk here
http://www.usermode.net
Tate Gallery audio/visual archive
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shift have a report on Artdemo03 which Graham Pullin (from IDEO) and I spoke at.
http://www.shift.jp.org/077/
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Social Mobiles won the Grand Prize Interactive Art at the CG-Arts festival in Tokyo. All the Social Mobiles will be on display in Tokyo for the exhibition (although owing to incompatabilities the handsets won't function there).
www.cgarts.or.jp
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Working at the Interaction Design Institute of Ivrea in Italy. I will be working on the fluidtime research project and teaching a course with Stefano Mirti.
www.interaction-ivrea.it
www.fluidtime.net
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An Invisible Force wins honorary mention in the Interactive Art Catagory of Ars Electronica 2002. On display in Linz in Austria.
Ars Electronica 2002
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