Posts Tagged ‘London’

So, you may have heard whispers of a slight hoohah in London last night.  I ventured out this morning and took some photographs. (For wherever there is trouble I shall be bravely there, a few hours later, when things have calmed down, and it’s daylight, and I can get a cup of tea.)  Please insert your own social commentary as required. Photos after the break.

One of the (many) delightful things about my position with SENS Foundation is the people, meetings and events which so effectively bridge my professional and personal lives.  I already blogged about the first sameAs meeting, and the second was held last week, on the subject of sound.  (They’re held in London, and open to all, so I strongly suggest you check out the website and/or join the feed for @same_as.)  As ever, the presentations were interesting and thought-provoking, but the highlight for me was an art piece from Semiconductor introduced by Honor Harger, whose own work includes the art collaborations radioqualia and Radio Astronomy, an art and science project which broadcasts sounds intercepted from space live on the internet and on the airwaves. See some subsequent sentences...

Playfulness, toasters, negative space, Gatsby (and no witchcraft or Egyptian archaeology): last night was the TED Salon in London, down at the Unicorn Theatre, near Tower Bridge.  The topic for the evening was “Re-framing” with 15 speakers over 5 hours (including the usual networking breaks that are de rigueur at such events ).  As ever, each talk delivered something of interest, but their effectiveness to me was increased by SENS Foundation‘s current re-framing of its mission and message (see posts passim).  I have a small programme for the evening with more pencil scribblings on it than original ink.  Here’s a whistle-stop tour of some of the talks, in as much as they resonated with me, with links where appropriate.  A whistle-stop tour, you say? Lead on...