10 Seconds of What I’m Working On Right Now

2012.02: Focused squarely on completing my book for MIT Press and promoting #media2012.  Also working on REF2014 coordination for my School.

2011.12: Can’t quite fathom how it’s been 4 months since i’ve updated this, but time flies, as they say. So, in a nutshell, I’ve been busy launching the Creative Futures Research Centre website, appointing its first Associates and Advisory Board, leading my School’s submission on the Research Excellence Framework 2014 submission, and giving talks all over the place, but in Europe mainly, except for Moscow. Highlights include the Abandon Normal Devices festival and the Battle of Ideas, but most exciting of all, @ethanmiahgarcia started walking.

2011.08: Working on a manuscript about the ethics of human enhancement for a Spanish project, a chapter on bioart, a documentary pitch on transhumanism, and back into my MIT book on Cybersport. Also, taking a bit of time in Barcelona.

2011.05: Finishing book for Routledge on ‘The Olympics’ for ‘The Basics’ series. Also, reviewing Nick Bostrom’s commissioned piece for the Foresight Horizon Scanning Centre in the UK Government Office for Science about the ‘Future of Identity’.  Working on my MIT Book ‘A Digital Olympics’ and a bunch of engagements from the Cheltenham Science Festival (synthetic biology and human enhancement), #media2012 pitch to the BBC London 2012 Steering Committee and the Virtual Futures conference in Warwick. No doubt will also be focused on the RE:WIRE conference programme too.

2011.04: Finishing trip to New Zealand with a quick stop over in Sydney to check out the ten year legacy of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Presently in Christchurch, which is still picking up the pieces from the February earthquake. Developing website for the Creative Futures Research Centre and finalizing advisory board members.

2011.02: Finished a marathon of conference presentations and now focused on my MIT book about digital technology and the Olympic Games, while also squeezing in a book titled ‘The Olympics’ for Routledge’s ‘The Basics’ series. This should see me through to April. Also planning visit to New Zealand as a visiting fellow at University of Otago – through Prof Colin Gavaghan in the law school, who’s working with the genetics department to bring me there. I’ll be giving a bunch of public lectures around NZ while there. Also this month, planning meetings for RE:WIRE and FACT’s Nam June Paik conference on Friday 18th. Finally, scoping out material for a possible International Handbook on Sport and New Media for Routledge.

2010.12: Currently my writing is focused on 2 book chapters, one on New Media for William Sims Bainbridge, for a book on Leadership in Science and Technology, another for John Nauright, about Sport and New Media, for a book on Global Issues and Sport, i think. Each of these are steps towards completing sections for the 2 books I’m focused on – both Olympic/Digital related – and a new book proposal I’ve been asked to write on Sport and New Media. Project work focused around #media2012 and upcoming regional meeting in the South West. A few presentations coming up, mostly in the UK, around the usual varied themes. Major events are the PODIUM annual conference in February, followed by the NeuroArts conference in Plymouth (both in same week), where I’ll talk about Neuroethics.