"Distinguished Lecture Series – a lecture by Professor Sue Thomas
Professor Sue Thomas explores the evolution of the landscape of cyberspace from its creation as an unpopulated wilderness through its exploration, colonisation, cultivation, settlement and growth and offers some predictions for the future of this most exotic place.
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media at the Institute of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities. She has written several books including the novel 'Correspondence', short-listed for the 1992 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and most recently the 2004 non-fiction cyberspace travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality'. She has written about computers and the internet since the 1980s and is now working on 'Nature and Cyberspace: Stories, Memes and Metaphors', a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. She co-directs the influential Transliteracy Research Group and the DMU TransdisciplinaryGroup, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts."
Really interesting lecture and discussions after. A few quick notes of links to follow up.
I think the slides and (my) audio recording will appear on the TDC blog shortly...
2 books, independently published 1984:
'Cyberspace' term first used in William Gibson's Neuromancer
Biophilia app by Bjork: video intro by David Attenborough. "Music, nature and technology"
Hylozoic (Ancient Greek term meaning everything is alive) Ground by Canadian artist Philip Beesley
Biophilic design... film.....design... architecture etc.
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