I have spent the last year working as a 'partner journalist' on the Media Mates scheme, a project designed in order to engineer coverage of new media art in the North. One of my articles, a self-reflexive look at my role as critic and the scheme itself is in this months
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Media Mates
On the 5th of April I spent an hour interviewing an artist who has had a profound impact on the field of new media art (in advance of his UK retrospective ‘Silicon Remembers Carbon’, at FACT in Liverpool). The artist, David Rokeby, has produced works such as Very Nervous System (1986 - ), the Giver of Names (1991 - ) and n-Cha(n)t (2001), which have set a precedent in audience interactivity – not to mention code writing as artistic practice – which many new media artists, curators and critics across the globe are still digesting, yet I was unable to get the interview published in print.