Luke Robert Mason - Digital Portfolio [Updated 2012/05]

1. LUKEROBERTMASON
Researcher in Technology & Cyberculture!
Director of Virtual Futures!
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@LukeRobertMason!
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lukerobertmason@virtualfutures.com!
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2. PERFORMANCEART
2011!
1. ESS [re]Code, University of Warwick (February 2011)
Online Documentation: http://virtualfutures.co.uk/archive/papers/coding-consciousness-ess-recode!
2010!
1. ‘State Your Date’, Live Art Speed Date, Fierce Festival Interrobang 2, Birmingham (25 September 2010)!

4. ESS [re]Code, 2011

5. ESS [re]Code, 2011

6. ESS [re]Code, 2011

7. ESS [re]Code – Qlab Programming

8. Coding Consciousness: Transhuman Aesthetics in Performance, Teleplace (17th November 2010)

9. Coding Consciousness: Transhuman Aesthetics in Performance, Teleplace (17th November 2010)

10. ESS [re]Code, Work-in-Progress

11. 'State Your Date’
Fierce Festival
LIVE ART SPEED DATE
presented by Stoke Newington
International Airport
25 Sept 2010
[Photo: Briony Campbell]!

12. ‘State Your Date’ Fierce Festival - Rehearsal

15. "Homo-Cyberneticus" 2010 (Video Art Promo Photo)

16. CONFERENCEORGANISATION
1. Virtual Futures 2011, University of Warwick (18-19 June 2011)!

17. The University of Warwick’s Virtual Futures conferences occurred in 1994, 1995 and 1996. Dan O’Hara , the original VF
organiser, highlighted the mission of VF: “Much of the publicity we did beforehand was […] letting people know that what
was going to happen was not just a dry academic conference but some kind of chaotic freak show.” The mid-90s national
press embraced the hysteria with articles about “cyber-seers” and the “futurists” converging on Warwick for one mad
weekend of argument, academia and virtual reality.!
The revival of the conference in 2011
served as part of a wider research
project to discover what was predicted,
what was unpredictable and what
technologies were overlooked – but
have now become part of everyday life.!

18. When Virtual Futures returned to
campus on the 18-19 June 2011, it
aimed to reconnect Warwick with one
of the most important intellectual and
cultural developments of our times –
the technological extension of the
human condition. !
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This event enabled the attendees to
not only to reflect on lessons learned
in the last fifteen years but, more
importantly, explore new grounds and
discover the potential held by
advancements in society, art, politics
and new technology which could
conceivably 'Ctrl', 'Alt'[er], 'Enter' and
perhaps even 'Delete' our bodies over
the next 15.!

19. An array of world renowned speakers and
artists including Stelarc, Dr. Dan O'Hara, Dr.
Rachel Armstrong, Dr. Richard Barbrook and
James Flint, returned to the University of
Warwick, 16 years after appearing at VF 95.
Professor Steve Fuller, Professor Andy Miah
and Mark Fisher questioned how we will move
forward in our evolution at a time of ever
improving technology and WMG's own
Professor Alan Chalmers and Professor
Jeremy Wyatt shared the latest innovations in
digital technology. All of the Virtual Futures
talks listed and more have been documented
and made available via the Warwick
Knowledge Centre.!

20. The revival of Virtual Futures attempted to reclaim a
critical framework within which to analyse the web, the
convergence of information technology and
innovation's impact on the understanding of what it
means to be human. The organisers from each
decade, Dr. Dan O'Hara and Luke Robert Mason, are
now working towards a publication that will analyse the
epistemology of the ‘cyber-' prefix charting it’s various
usage in disciplines such as art, philosophy and
culture.!

21. CONFERENCEPRESENTATIONS
2012!
1. Augmented Reality Event 2012, Santa Clara Convention Centre (09 May 2012)!
2. TEDxDelMar, University of California San Diego (29 April 2012)!
3. Being Human in an Information Age, University of Warwick (16 March 2012)!
4. LSEsuAMP Annual Conference, London School of Economics (06 March 2012)!
5. Future Human: Transparent Life, The Book Club, Shoreditch London (08 February 2012)!
6. TEDx Warwick 2012 (Homegrown Ideas Event), University of Warwick (30 January 2012)!
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2011!
1. Society for Existential Analysis: The Permeation of Technology in Everyday Life, Wellcome Trust, London (19 November 2011)!
2. Multipack Presents: Responsive Web Design, Birmingham Science Park Aston (12 November 2011)!
3. Humanity Plus UK: Beyond Human - Rethinking the Technological Extension of the Human Condition, London (08 October
2011)!
4. International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), Sabanci University (17 September 2011)!
5. British Conference of Undergraduate Research, University of Central Lancashire (19 April 2011)!
6. Humanity Plus UK: Making a Human Difference, Conway Hall, London (29 January 2011)!
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2010!
1. Coding Consciousness: Transhuman Aesthetics in Performance, Teleplace (17th November 2010)!

22. Augmented Reality Event 2012, Santa Clara Convention Centre (09 May 2012)

23. TEDxDelMar, University of California San Diego (29 April 2012)

24. Future Human: Transparent Life, The Book Club, Shoreditch London (08 February 2012)

25. IATL Student as Producer Showcase
(Photos by Peter Marsh at ashmorevisuals)

26. TEDxWarwick – Homegrown Ideas

28. PRESS&MEDIA
1. Guardian UK, How bots are taking over the world by Dan O’Hara and Luke Robert Mason. Guardian UK, Comment is
Free (30 March 2012)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/30/how-bots-are-taking-over-the-world!
2. theMachineStarts.com, Understanding the Robotic Infosphere by Luke Robert Mason (20 January 2012)
http://www.themachinestarts.com/read/82!
3. BBC Click (World Service Radio), Interview with Dr. Rachel Armstrong on Virtual Futures (14 June 2011)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00h4vs8/Click_14_06_2011/ !

30. LUKEROBERTMASON
Researcher in Technology & Cyberculture
Director of Virtual Futures
@LukeRobertMason
lukerobertmason@virtualfutures.co.uk!