Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Graduate Interactive Arts 97, Postgrad MA Creative Technologies 98. Worked in the media industries, notably with New Order and The Doves, was Creative Technologies Director of IDEA (Innovation in Digital and Electronic Arts). Lecture at the shcool of Art and Media and the school of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. Video and video installation art work has been shown nationally and internationally. Co-founded Interval in 2005 and co-directs with Karen Gaskill. Founder member of Loosecollective est. 2007. www.interval.org.uk www.loosecollective.net
Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
James Robert
Tech manager @ Lets Go Global
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Lets Go Global enables people and organisations to have an active and creative role, becoming producers, publishers and distributors of their own content and participants in the new digital age.
Course Leader MA Surface Pattern, BA Surface Pattern @ Northern School of Design UCLan
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Bev Lamey teaches textiles and surface design. Background in carpet design, rugs and feltmaking. Research interest in design for mental healthcare, service user engagement, and the influence of "soft" materials and decoration on patient's wellbeing.
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Neil Harris
Arts & Regeneration Officer @ Lancashire County Council
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Kate Feld
writer and editor @ Openstories
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
I write Manchester arts and Culture blog The Manchizzle and run digital literature projects with manchester literature Festival including the Manchester Blog Awards.
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Garry Cook
Photojournalist
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Photographer and journalist = photojournalist.
Social documentary photography. Events and people photography. Photography blogging. Feature writing. Workshops and lectures.
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Journalism student at UCLan, part time writer for their student paper, Pluto.
Carlos Franco
Conceptual Artist @ Freelance
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Born in Mexico City. Holds a first degree in Communication and an MA in Contemporary Arts. Interested in the exploration of human experience and the creative process.
Ali Herod
writer, maker, performer, project manager
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Adrienne Frances
Creative Practitioner @ Multistory
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
I’m Adrienne.
I work with communities. I work with artists. I think I belong to both. I write. I make things. I write about the things I’ve made.
I like shiny things, handmade things, things with history and things that are new. I always have big plans, and am always busy. I’m terrible on the phone, not bad at 140 characters, and downright awesome at hand-written letters.
I love learning.
I love printing, photography, drawing, writing, sewing, knitting, spinning, welding, and many other ways of making besides.
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Brandi Richards
PhD Student @ HighWire - Lancaster University
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
BA in Comparative Human Development (University of Chicago)
MFA (University of Dundee)
MSc Design Ethnography (University of Dundee)
Currently: PhD HighWire, Computing, Management, Design (Lancaster University)
Sophie Vanner
Fashion and Brand Management Student @ Uclan
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Sara Domville
Digital Arts Lead @ Art Locates Me, Connexions
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
I’m a Senior Lecturer (Principal Lecturer) in Design at Lancaster University. My research interests explore the approaches designers use to consider the future, in particular the ability of designers to envision potential social, cultural, technological and economic futures. As a trained product designer, my research activities centre on design futures, trends, and forecasting, and have published over 25 peer review articles in this area.
I am a member of ImaginationLancaster, a design-led creative research lab that that investigates emerging issues, technologies and practices to develop solutions that contribute to the common good. With extensive experience of leading undergraduate and postgraduate design curricula, I’m currently Course Director for MA Design: Management and Policy at Lancaster University. I’m external examiner at a number of UK institutions and have acted as an academic advisor for curriculum development both nationally and internationally.
They Eat Culture runs a year round arts programme, and also creative writing & documentary projects onnline & offline. We explore the bit where fact and fiction meet.
Creative Industries Project Manager @ University of Bolton
Selected this as 3rd choice
Rebecca is Creative Industries Project Manager at the University of Bolton, working on a variety of projects that help bridge the gap between academia and the world of creative industries.
Student MA Online Journalism and Freelance Writer @ N/A
Selected this as 3rd choice
After University I badgered a national student monthly tabloid whatsonuk, I was appointed assistant editor and within 3 months I was editor overseeing the launch of several bi-monthly glossy guides and consulting the website www.whatson.uk.com. After 2 years I left with the head of sales and main staff writer to launch a new title Blowback. A free high quality monthly publication with a distribution of around 20,000 and eventually paid for in Borders worldwide. We also developed 2 websites, a teaser site which acted as a taster for the look and style of the magazine with the second more content based site a year into our development.
When I left I was employed as a brand consultant for Channel 4's youth-orientated arts magazine Ten4, which became 4Talent. At a similar time I was also consulted by Cancer Intelligence, a developing online medical journal, and ghost writing an article about embracing online for Professor Gordon McVie for Guardian Unlimited http://tinyurl.com/mcviesociety.
Also during this year I began contributing to Virtual Festivals (www.virtualfestivals.co.uk), the UK's largest festival website and various freelance writer jobs.
I also seized the opportunity to take stock of my own work and began blogging old articles as an online archive http://dandavies23.wordpress.com
After gaining full time employment as Metro Life Arts Editor for East Midlands I not only began contributing to Metro’s own West Midlands Blog westmidlandsblog.metro.co.uk but also started distributing my own musical podcast Silver Skins through my Wordpress site.
Director of The Education and Research Centre for Wellbeing @ HAMK University of Applied Sciences
Selected this as 3rd choice
Robert Hempsall
Information Designer @ robert hempsall - information designer
Selected this as 3rd choice
Information designer: specialist in making everyday information (such as forms and instructions) easy to understand and use, and more effective at its job
At the thinktank Kennisland | Knowledgeland, I work on stimulating civel society media in the Netherlands. In 2002 we started the Digital Pioneers project. Through this project small organisations can obtain the support necessary to realise innovative projects. They usually concern public information and opinion forming using the Internet.
Had various jobs in the music industry including owning rehearsal rooms, managing bands & I still own an independent record label. Have been teaching and lecturing at LIPA on a variety of music courses since 1999.
Director of a Software Development Consultancy, and extraordinarily deep interest in journalism, news and the impacts of technology on democracy and society
Participants
The following people have already registered and expressed an interest in attending the Love Culture Turtle
Venues and times have now been confirmed!.
Running time for this turtle is:
Monday 2.15pm - 4.30pm (16th Nov) @ Preston Arts & Design (PAD)
Please check the Programme Page for more information.
The following people are confirmed to attend...
Taylor Nuttall (Editor)
Chief executive @ folly
Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Chief Exec folly, arts organisation NW UK leading digital culture
Live in Cumbria, UK
http://www.folly.co.uk
http://www.folly.co.uk
Lucy Green
Talking Shop Project Coordinator @ Mid Pennine Arts
Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Talking Shop is a creative arts project run by Mid Pennine Arts since 2005, celebrating the role of independent shop keepers across Lancashire.
This exciting and innovative art project has already raised the awareness that independent shops are the heart and soul of a community!
http://www.lancashiretalkingshop.co.uk
Gary Peploe
Artsist/Designer/Curator/Film/LecturerGraduate @ Interval + Loosecollective
Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Graduate Interactive Arts 97, Postgrad MA Creative Technologies 98. Worked in the media industries, notably with New Order and The Doves, was Creative Technologies Director of IDEA (Innovation in Digital and Electronic Arts). Lecture at the shcool of Art and Media and the school of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. Video and video installation art work has been shown nationally and internationally. Co-founded Interval in 2005 and co-directs with Karen Gaskill. Founder member of Loosecollective est. 2007. www.interval.org.uk www.loosecollective.net
http://www.interval.org.uk
Pete Atkinson
Senior Lecturer, Film & Media, UCLan @ UCLan and NOISE Festival
Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
I am a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media and Employability at UCLan, UK. Also a NOISE Festival Trustee, based in Manchester.
http://UCLancethandNOISEFestival
Richard Wood
PhD Student - Digital Innovation @ Lancaster University
Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
PhD Student - Digital Innovation
http://www.richard-wood.co.uk
Hiran Panchal
Creative Director @ Freedom Of Creation
Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
http://www.freedomofcreation.co.uk
Kirsty Hillyer
Arts Manager @ Multistory
Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
http://www.multistory.org.uk
Kate Brundrett
Director @ The Cumbria Network
Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
http://www.thecumbrianetwork.co.uk
Octavia Pendrill-adams
Student
Selected this as 1st choice AND is a confirmed attendee
James Robert
Tech manager @ Lets Go Global
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Lets Go Global enables people and organisations to have an active and creative role, becoming producers, publishers and distributors of their own content and participants in the new digital age.
http://letsgoglobal.tv
Bev Lamey
Course Leader MA Surface Pattern, BA Surface Pattern @ Northern School of Design UCLan
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Bev Lamey teaches textiles and surface design. Background in carpet design, rugs and feltmaking. Research interest in design for mental healthcare, service user engagement, and the influence of "soft" materials and decoration on patient's wellbeing.
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Neil Harris
Arts & Regeneration Officer @ Lancashire County Council
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Kate Feld
writer and editor @ Openstories
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
I write Manchester arts and Culture blog The Manchizzle and run digital literature projects with manchester literature Festival including the Manchester Blog Awards.
http://rainycitystories.com
Michael Raoch
Director @ First Interval Ltd.
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
http://www.firstinterval.com
Gillian Hunt
Director @ Escata Ltd
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
marketing and business development.
Seeking resources and collaboration projects.
Background in media for plc and seed funding.
http://www.escata.co.uk
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Garry Cook
Photojournalist
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Photographer and journalist = photojournalist.
Social documentary photography. Events and people photography. Photography blogging. Feature writing. Workshops and lectures.
http://www.longlens.blogspot.com
Joseph Stashko-Adamaszek
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
http://ptbdisorder.blogspot.com
Kate Preston
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Journalism student at UCLan, part time writer for their student paper, Pluto.
Carlos Franco
Conceptual Artist @ Freelance
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Born in Mexico City. Holds a first degree in Communication and an MA in Contemporary Arts. Interested in the exploration of human experience and the creative process.
Ali Herod
writer, maker, performer, project manager
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Adrienne Frances
Creative Practitioner @ Multistory
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
I’m Adrienne.
I work with communities. I work with artists. I think I belong to both. I write. I make things. I write about the things I’ve made.
I like shiny things, handmade things, things with history and things that are new. I always have big plans, and am always busy. I’m terrible on the phone, not bad at 140 characters, and downright awesome at hand-written letters.
I love learning.
I love printing, photography, drawing, writing, sewing, knitting, spinning, welding, and many other ways of making besides.
http://www.multistory.org.uk
Frank Beaver
Head of Music Technology @ Preston College
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Brandi Richards
PhD Student @ HighWire - Lancaster University
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
BA in Comparative Human Development (University of Chicago)
MFA (University of Dundee)
MSc Design Ethnography (University of Dundee)
Currently: PhD HighWire, Computing, Management, Design (Lancaster University)
Sophie Vanner
Fashion and Brand Management Student @ Uclan
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Sara Domville
Digital Arts Lead @ Art Locates Me, Connexions
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
http://www.art.locates.me.uk
Dave Mee
Design Director @ TANDOT
Selected this as 2nd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
http://tandot.co.uk
PAOLA DE GIOVANNI
TEXTILE DESIGNER/PHOTOGRAPHER @ MEANMAGENTA
Selected this as 3rd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
http://meanmagenta-photos.blogspot.com
Tracy Jackson
Employment Placement Officer @ Lancashire Care NHS Trust
Selected this as 3rd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
http://LancashireCareNHSTrust
susan comer
textile designer @ susan comer wearable art
Selected this as 3rd choice AND is a confirmed attendee
By deconstructing vintage clothing, I create one-off, unique wearable art pieces, which can be worn draped around the body or displayed
http://www.susancomer@yahoo.co.uk
Selected this as choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Jonathan Balls
Interaction Technologist @ Sandbox
Selected this as choice AND is a confirmed attendee
Joanna Hill
Photographer
Selected this as choice AND is a confirmed attendee
The following people expressed an interest to attend but are not confirmed because we have not assigned them to this turtle:
The reason can be 3 fold:
Neil Simpson
Chief Executive @ Storey Creative Industries Centre
Selected this as 2nd choice
http://www.thestorey.co.uk
Richard Crookes
Professional calligrapher/digital artist
Selected this as 2nd choice
Born Preston 1960.
I have been providing commercial traditional and digital artwork for over 30 years as a freelance.
http://www.rcrux.com
Brian Adamski
Business Development Manager @ Carbon Digital
Selected this as 2nd choice
http://www.carbondigital.co.uk
Martyn Evans
Senior Lecturer Design @ Lancaster University
Selected this as 2nd choice
I’m a Senior Lecturer (Principal Lecturer) in Design at Lancaster University. My research interests explore the approaches designers use to consider the future, in particular the ability of designers to envision potential social, cultural, technological and economic futures. As a trained product designer, my research activities centre on design futures, trends, and forecasting, and have published over 25 peer review articles in this area.
I am a member of ImaginationLancaster, a design-led creative research lab that that investigates emerging issues, technologies and practices to develop solutions that contribute to the common good. With extensive experience of leading undergraduate and postgraduate design curricula, I’m currently Course Director for MA Design: Management and Policy at Lancaster University. I’m external examiner at a number of UK institutions and have acted as an academic advisor for curriculum development both nationally and internationally.
http://www.imagination.lancaster.ac.uk
Mediha Boran
Creative Consultant @ Freelance
Selected this as 2nd choice
Natasha Carolan
HighWire Lancaster @ Lancaster University
Selected this as 2nd choice
HighWire PhD student, Lancaster University.
http://natashacarolan.agoodportfolio.com/
Keelin Tobin
Carer and student @ L'Arche community
Selected this as 2nd choice
Beth Harvey
Selected this as 2nd choice
Ruth Heritage
Director @ They Eat Culture
Selected this as 2nd choice
They Eat Culture runs a year round arts programme, and also creative writing & documentary projects onnline & offline. We explore the bit where fact and fiction meet.
http://www.theyeatculture.org
Rebecca Albrow
Creative Industries Project Manager @ University of Bolton
Selected this as 3rd choice
Rebecca is Creative Industries Project Manager at the University of Bolton, working on a variety of projects that help bridge the gap between academia and the world of creative industries.
http://www.thenervecentre.org.uk
Dan Davies
Student MA Online Journalism and Freelance Writer @ N/A
Selected this as 3rd choice
After University I badgered a national student monthly tabloid whatsonuk, I was appointed assistant editor and within 3 months I was editor overseeing the launch of several bi-monthly glossy guides and consulting the website www.whatson.uk.com. After 2 years I left with the head of sales and main staff writer to launch a new title Blowback. A free high quality monthly publication with a distribution of around 20,000 and eventually paid for in Borders worldwide. We also developed 2 websites, a teaser site which acted as a taster for the look and style of the magazine with the second more content based site a year into our development.
When I left I was employed as a brand consultant for Channel 4's youth-orientated arts magazine Ten4, which became 4Talent. At a similar time I was also consulted by Cancer Intelligence, a developing online medical journal, and ghost writing an article about embracing online for Professor Gordon McVie for Guardian Unlimited http://tinyurl.com/mcviesociety.
Also during this year I began contributing to Virtual Festivals (www.virtualfestivals.co.uk), the UK's largest festival website and various freelance writer jobs.
I also seized the opportunity to take stock of my own work and began blogging old articles as an online archive http://dandavies23.wordpress.com
After gaining full time employment as Metro Life Arts Editor for East Midlands I not only began contributing to Metro’s own West Midlands Blog westmidlandsblog.metro.co.uk but also started distributing my own musical podcast Silver Skins through my Wordpress site.
http://dandavies23.wordpress.com
Charlotte Riches
Development Producer, Audio Drama @ BBC
Selected this as 3rd choice
Matthew Buck
Illustrator-Animator-Journalist @ Hack Cartoons and Multimedia
Selected this as 3rd choice
Award-winning visual journalist for print and pixel
http://www.mattbuckhackcartoons.com
Hwa Young Jung
Creative Director @ TANDOT
Selected this as 3rd choice
http://tandot.co.uk/
Merja Saarela
Director of The Education and Research Centre for Wellbeing @ HAMK University of Applied Sciences
Selected this as 3rd choice
Robert Hempsall
Information Designer @ robert hempsall - information designer
Selected this as 3rd choice
Information designer: specialist in making everyday information (such as forms and instructions) easy to understand and use, and more effective at its job
http://www.roberthempsall.co.uk
nikki timmermans
advisor social innovation @ kennisland
Selected this as 3rd choice
At the thinktank Kennisland | Knowledgeland, I work on stimulating civel society media in the Netherlands. In 2002 we started the Digital Pioneers project. Through this project small organisations can obtain the support necessary to realise innovative projects. They usually concern public information and opinion forming using the Internet.
http://www.knowledgeland.org-and-http://www.digitalepioniers.nl
Richard Smedley
Social Entrepreneur @ Northern Dialect
Selected this as 3rd choice
Social entrepreneur; Free Software campaigner; hackspaces; project manager; P2P education; permaculturist; choral singer; organic grower; technical author; poetry reader; father; husband.
http://goodGNUs.org/
Jade Wright
Music Writer @ Liverpool Echo and Daily Post
Selected this as 3rd choice
Jade Wright is the Liverpool ECHO and Daily Post's music writer. She has a passion for all things musical, and particularly for promoting local bands.
http://musicblog.merseyblogs.co.uk/
Mat Flynn
Lecturer in Music Business @ LIPA
Selected this as 3rd choice
Had various jobs in the music industry including owning rehearsal rooms, managing bands & I still own an independent record label. Have been teaching and lecturing at LIPA on a variety of music courses since 1999.
http://www.lipa.ac.uk
natalie diggle
student @ UCLAN
Selected this as 3rd choice
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/ndiggle?v=info&ref=profile
Louise Kidney
ICT Systems Tech @ Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Selected this as 3rd choice
Jane Stuart
Creative Industries Liaison @ University of Bolton
Selected this as 3rd choice
http://www.bolton.ac.uk
Christian Payne
Social Technologist @ Our Man Inside
Selected this as 3rd choice
http://ourmaninside.com
Anna Kröger
Freelance writer and translator / student @ MA Magazine Journalism@UCLan
Selected this as 3rd choice
http://www.xing.com/profile/Anna_Kroeger
Cheaps Cheapskate
Musical Craftsman @ Cheapskate
Selected this as 3rd choice
I make melodies
http://www.iamcheapskate.com
Sophie S.
Student @ UCLan
Selected this as 3rd choice
Steven Carlin
Business Development Manager @ Workhouse
Selected this as 3rd choice
http://www.workhousemarketing.com
Paul Robinson
Director @ Vagueware Ltd
Selected this as choice
Director of a Software Development Consultancy, and extraordinarily deep interest in journalism, news and the impacts of technology on democracy and society
http://blog.vagueware.com
Jenny Hudson
Director @ Vanilla Storm Limited
Selected this as choice
http://www.vanillastorm.com