Web services, patience and attention to detail
for the arts, cultural, educational, voluntary and ethical sectors
research:
emerging technology surveys · programming culture · art-technology · digital information handling · disability & technology in the arts
strategy:
art and technology · web training and education · interdisciplinary connections · transdisciplinary research
webtech:
website hosting for cultural/voluntary/education/ethical sectors from £40 p.a. · standards-compliant cross-browser web coding & web technology guidance · web access/usability audits and fixes · information planning and handling
training:
information architecture · web primers for arts practitioners · web access and usability · web standards & valid, semantic cross-browser HTML, HTML5 & CSS, CSS3
projects in progress:
Greenview energy-monitoring app (Android version) · 3D Roman archaeological artefacts online (part of a larger Roman Leicester project for Jewry Wall Museum) · DeMontfort University New Media module planning and lecturing
completed websites and projects:
Go Green Week website and public display, Greenview iOS app - DeMontfort University · Vision 2020 · Institute of Creative Technologies · Martin Richardson Holograms and Lenticulars · East Midlands Arts in Rural Areas Network (EMARAN) website · Star Disc sculpture project website · Preston Museums children's site · Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915 · Culture East Midlands: rural culture website (closed) · Disability Arts Online · Sally Wilson (artist) · Loscoe State Opera band website
Information gathering defines civilization as much as food gathering defines the nomadic cultures that preceded the rise of urban communities, agricultural surplus, and stratified social hierarchies.
- Erik Davies, Techgnosis (on Amazon
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We long for more connection between what we do for a living and what we genuinely care about… to be seen as who we feel ourselves to be rather than as the sum of abstract metrics and parameters. We long to be part of a world that makes sense rather than accept the accidental alienation imposed by market forces too large to grasp…
Much as everyone thinks they want financial security, the happiest people are not those who have it, but those who like what they do.