BIOGRAPHIES OF GUEST CONTRIBUTORS
POLITICS OF ACCESS Charlie Fox Charlie Fox is artistic director of counterproductions. counterproductions brings together artists, artistic practices, the public and non-professional producers in collaborative projects to generate new artistic culture, which is informed by and reforms contemporary artistic culture; creating work that offers the potential of an art for all by conjoining art practice, theory and method, to a street level understanding and appreciation of artistic expression. counterproductions collaborates in cultural exchange that investigate the cross-contamination between politics and aesthetics, art and the everyday. Current projects and collected activities include CGTV, The Communist Gallery, and DerCentreDerSpace (Marseille 2013). www.counterproductions.me www.decentrederspace.org Christian Nold Christian studied Fine Art (BA, 1999) at Kingston University. In 2001 he wrote the book ‘Mobile Vulgus’ and subsequently studied Interaction Design (MA, 2004) at the Royal College of Art. Since then he has been a lecturer and artist organising large scale participatory mapping projects in many countries across the world. In 2010, Christian launched an experimental complimentary currency the Bijlmer Euro and in 2011 co-wrote the book ‘Internet of People for a Post-Oil world’ which offers a vision of socio-technical tools for collective grassroots reshaping of the environment. Christian is a PhD student in the Extreme Citizen Science Group at University College London. www.softhook.com
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