August Internet of Things talks at Redgate

After a hiatus, we've got great speakers this month with Scott from Google talking about their Physical Web project (http://physical-web.org) and Mark talking about his recent Collusion (http://www.collusion.org.uk) commission 'Data Shadow'. As I expect this will be a popular night, we'll be hosting this months talk at Redgate allowing us to raise the attendee limit.

Mark Farid (https://twitter.com/markfarid) is a multimedia conceptual artist, who through an interrogative practise, examines the ethics of performing in social situations to help understand the administrated identity of the individual, in relationship to the institutions and systems.

Currently using technology to dissect these systems, Farid aims to help understand the power structures that bind together the collective of individuals, which act as the cogs in these formations. In doing so, Farid subverts the nature of this relationship in the hope of deconstructing the administering rules of function, with the aim of emancipating the participant and audience from these very power structures.

Farid graduated from Kingston University, London with a First Class in Fine Art (Hons), 2014, and has since participated in group and solo exhibitions in London, Paris, Frankfurt and Abu Dhabi.

Collusion (http://www.collusion.org.uk/), lead by Rachel Drury and Simon Poulter, is a playful, experimental not for profit agency for Cambridge that operates at the intersection of arts, technology, and human interaction. They facilitate collaborative interdisciplinary explorations focusing on new work with artists within the area of embedded and locative systems - including the wider generic concepts of the internet of things and smart cities.

Scott Jenson (https://twitter.com/scottjenson) has been doing user interface design and strategic planning for over 20 years. He worked at Apple on System 7, Newton, and the Apple Human Interface guidelines. He was the director of Symbian’s DesignLab, VP of product design for Cognima, a manager of mobile UX for Google for 5 years, and a creative director at frog design in San Francisco.

Scott returned to Google working on the Chrome team in November 2013

As a battle-scarred veteran of the software industry, Scott has shipped a consumer spreadsheet, been a part of 2 Mac OS releases, 5 Newton product cycles, 4 commercial web site revisions, designed 3 different mobile phone UIs, sworn at innumerable mobile browsers, and has over 20 patents.

The agenda will be:

Arrive 6:45 for a 7pm start

> Introduction by Mark Cheverton (@ennui2342)

> Data Shadow - Mark Farid (@markfarid)

> Physical Web - Scott Jenson (@scottjenson)

> Networking

9pm Close

Hashtag: #iotcam. Thanks to Redgate for hosting the meetup:

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