Leigh Alexander
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United Kingdom
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How Gone Home 's design constraints lead to a powerful story
The Fullbright Company's Gone Home is elegant narrative, but as a work of design, it's equally so. Steve Gaynor explains the human story born from a history of environmental design. Spoiler-free! → Read More
The Multimillion-Dollar Industry of Being a Happy Family on YouTube
What does it mean when a parent is, essentially, a child’s employer? → Read More
Stop Worrying About What Algorithms Do to Your Kids. Worry About What They’re Doing to You.
Kids behead, bury, deface, bind, and shear their toys regularly. They’ll be fine. → Read More
Emotional Labour in SFF – The Work Of Caring
Writers Laurie Penny, Leigh Alexander, RJ Barker and Mazin Saleem got together with articles editor Eli Lee for a roundtable on emotional labour, and how it's explored in SFF. → Read More
Making art out of Crossrail – tech podcast
Navine G Khan-Dossos’s work explores the shared geometric and algorithmic language of Islamic art and the internet → Read More
One artist's deep dive into the online 'manosphere' – tech podcast
Angela Washko tells us how she immersed herself in men’s rights communities and made a dating simulator about pickup artists → Read More
A memory box for the digital age – tech podcast
Kumbu is a service to preserve your digital memories – but how do you decide which of our mountain of data to keep? → Read More
How smart cities can create their own poetry – tech podcast
Artist Naho Matsuda has harnessed real-time smart city data in Manchester to create live poetry displays reflecting on what’s happening in real time → Read More
How to free yourself from your smartphone – tech podcast
Binky is a spoof social media app suggesting the real reason we use our phones has less to do with keeping in touch, and more to do with compulsive behaviour → Read More
Can emoji evolve into a meaningful language? – tech podcast
Dr Vyvyan Evans on the first emoji terror threat and what the future holds for non text-based communication → Read More
What would you put in a virtual museum? – tech podcast
Artist Pippin Barr explores a virtual world where computer game visuals meet the work of artists Donald Judd and Gregor Schneider → Read More
How natural language tech is changing interactive gaming: tech podcast
Socially intelligent design is changing how writers approach interactive story-telling → Read More
The 'alt-right' approach to disrupting the media – tech podcast
A new report takes a nuanced look at some of the behaviours and cultural norms surrounding the nascent Internet-based far-right group → Read More
Dating revolutionised by big data and memes – tech podcast
Dr Steve Carter, chief scientist at eHarmony, talks about the company’s use of algorithms and memes to make real-world dating more successful → Read More
Tech as a creative instrument for music – tech podcast
Sound artist Kathy Hinde and computer artist Matthew Olden AKA I Am The Mighty Jungulator talk about creative ways of using tech as a musical tool → Read More
Tracking the 'render ghosts' – tech podcast
Artist James Bridle reveals his quest to trace the anonymous faces appearing on hoardings around our cities → Read More
The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software – tech podcast
Why circumventing 1980s copy protection is the first step in saving part of tech history → Read More
What would an AI make you for dinner? – tech podcast
Training neural networks to create recipes, jokes, and Doctor Who episodes → Read More
Can a neural network compose music you want to hear? – Tech podcast
The AI composers that are helping people make their own personal soundtracks → Read More
What can we learn from naked mole rats and eusocial living? – tech podcast
Using live animal data, artist Julie Freeman has created a multifaceted installation – A Naked Mole Rat Eutopia – at London’s Somerset House → Read More