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By Martyn Ware. First of all, some context… The year is 1999 – at this point I’d already spent over 30 years in the music business as an artist with The Human League, Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation, and as a producer for artists such as Tina Turner and Terence Trent D’Arby, but this…
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By Hannah Stewart – Royal College of Art. We hear the underlying automated hum of our ‘industry 4.0’ future near constantly at the moment, robotic factories and a data surveillance augmented society, VR and haptic interfaces gamifying our shopping or replacing our sex lives – it’s everywhere – the constant near audible hum of a…
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Annie Warburton is Creative Director at the Crafts Council, where she leads on exhibitions, international programmes, education, and research. She also directs the Crafts Council’s innovation programme on intersections between craft, science, technology and industry. Recent exhibitions include British Craft – The Miami Edit, Miami Art Week, 2017 and 2016; The New Materiality, Basel 2017;…
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By Annie Warburton, Creative Director, Crafts Council. Digital technologies are revolutionising how things are made, where they are made and who makes them. At the same time, craft is driving innovation in other sectors. We see the tacit intelligence of the hand stimulating innovation in such diverse fields as digital technology, aerospace and bioscience. Meanwhile…
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Founder of The Human League, Heaven 17, British Electric Foundation. 40-year career as record producer. Founder of Illustrious and 3D soundscape designer/composer. Born in 1956 in Sheffield, UK. After leaving school worked in computers for 3 years, in 1977 formed The Human League. Formed production company/label British Electric Foundation in 1980 and formed Heaven 17 the same…
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Tash has over 20 years of experience shaping future changemakers in the creative industry. She was previously programme leader of the BA and MA Graphic Design course at Salford University, and now facilitates the learning of worldwide postgraduate students that join the MA Digital Management and MA Digital Experience Design programmes at Hyper Island as…
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Mo is founder & CEO of IN4.0 Plc and Co-founder of INFORM Education. He’s a serial entrepreneur taking ventures from start up to scale and sale. A Board Member of the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership leading on schools and future skills. He is Chair of the Greater Manchester Careers and Employability Board. Awarded Enterprise…
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