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Contact

Simon Pope, simon@informal.org.uk

Biography

Simon Pope is an artist and NESTA Fellow. He lives in Cardiff, Wales and teaches on the post-graduate Transmedia programme at Hogeschool Sint-Lukas, Brussels. Recent activity includes directorship of the undergraduate 'Design for Interactive Media' programme at UWIC, Cardiff, Wales; 'Art is everything business is not', a paper commissioned by the Arts Council of England; Art for Networks touring exhibition with Chapter in Cardiff, Wales; founder membership of informal (www.informal.org.uk), an extra-academic research unit. As NESTA Fellow, Simon is currently undertaking research into walking as a research method in fine art practice.

Previous projects include the Webby winning software 'IOD 4:The Web Stalker' (http://bak.spc.org/iod); 'Into the Web' installation for the Office of Zaha Hadid at the Millennium Dome, London; 'Ice Cream for Everyone' (http://bak.spc.org/ice); the technical manual, London Walking (B.T Batsford, 2000);'Art for Networks', a survey of networked art practice for BBC Online and Out of Our Tree', an essay for Diffussion's Species of Spaces series (www.diffusion.org.uk).

Online notes for some current projects

I've started to keep online journals for various projects - public weblogs are: