In order to focus my energy on open-source & community projects, I’ve recently decided to step away from Interactive Scientific, a company which I co-founded in 2013. I am now focusing intention on ArtSci International, a non-profit that supports open-source software tools for scientific simulation and aesthetic enquiry. Open innovation & community-values will form the bedrock of our ethos moving forward, taking inspiration from companies like Mozilla. It’s something I’m excited about, because a strong intellectual commons encapsulates the values, philosophy, and approach that has driven scientific enquiry for centuries. ArtSci’s mission will be focussed on supporting various community projects in order to enable cooperative learning. Stay tuned for more!

The last couple weeks have been lots of fun! With support from the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society, Arts Council England, and the EPSRC CHAMPS programme, I’ve been working on a project called “Figuring” at the Wickham theatre in the University of Bristol’s Department of Drama, with a talented team drawn across artistic, scientific, and technological practices. On 21 Sept, we showed Figuring to an audience of artists, producers, and technologists. This follows on from a previous showings of Figuring, for example at the Knowle West Media Centre, as part of their Commons Sense programme.
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