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fuzzy thinking : some ideas from a talk.

2011-12-27T14:12:00.001-08:00

Ideas for the future @ Shuffle in London

2011-11-15T08:16:00.001-08:00

For the fourth year running Essence hosted Shuffle at The May Fair Hotel, aimed at bringing together the major players in the digital arena to talk, debate and ponder on what we’re all doing in the space and more importantly, why we’re doing it. Lots of fun

Post-Digital Art on Start the Week 19/09/2011

2011-11-15T08:05:00.000-08:00

Continuing the trend of appearing on radio and talking about things I know nothing about I was recently invited onto the BBC's flagship Radio 4 show Start The Week, talking about "post-digital creativity" and the AlphaVille Festival. Which is something of a life-time goal - so I shall now retire from public life.
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Start the Week, 19/09/2011

Andrew Marr with Misha Glenny, Martin Kemp, Tom Uglow and Jane Pavitt.

Download the mp3

Discussing Composition #1 on the BBC World Service

2011-09-11T10:35:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure I have a voice (or a face) for radio, but I did enjoy doing a short package for The Strand discussing the very unusual book, Composition #1 by Marc Saporto, reissued by Visual Editions in a superlative offline and online format (and with a little introduction from me).
If you are particularly interested you can download the mp3.

Beautiful Mistakes and the future of stuff at NeXT in Aarhus

2011-09-11T10:26:00.000-07:00

Went to Aarhus recently for their NeXT conference and had a really interesting time reprising my future of everything talk around the subject of beautiful misatkes - which, and let's be honest here, is firstly a specialty, so home turf when ift comes to talking about serendipitous errors and, secondly is basically an hour long dinner party monolgue of mine about where we are and how the world is either going to be amazing, or awful, or perhaps somewhere inbetween.

Seemed to go down well.
Considerate write-up from RWW (thank you)
At the Nordic Exceptional Trendshop (NEXT) conference in Aarhus, Denmark yesterday, we were treated to some thoughts about the future from Tom Uglow, a Creative Director based at Google’s Creative Lab in London...." more

a short video excerpt

Post digital books - taking the internet for granted...

2011-09-11T10:07:00.000-07:00

Took my Future of Books talk to Port Eliot - where it seemed to go down well despite being introduced as "Here's Tom Uglow - to question the future of books"! (as opposed to 'ask questions about the future of books').
Here's the deck:

Future of the Book:: Ted Project Pilot kicks off in NY

2011-06-12T13:23:00.000-07:00

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This is a fascinating project that Juliette La Montagne has got me involved with which kicked off last week by allowing me to talk at length and with monumental digression about what I consider to be the future of the book. Anyway - here are the notes and the slides from the talk. If there is a video I will post it.

Slides

Culture Show spots. May 2011

2011-05-31T13:08:00.000-07:00

Two slots back to back on the Culture Show! What will people think.
This time talking about Crowd-funding for arts and charities:

and also on the future of books:

Fallon "Future Proof" Festival 2011

2011-05-18T03:49:00.000-07:00

Least sensible head-shot decision of the year to accompany my talk at Fallon's "Future Proof" Festival

Watch the video if you dare. It's a whopping 52 mins long.
Tom Uglow podcast from we are fallon on Vimeo.

Building Digital Capacity for the Arts

2011-03-14T23:39:00.000-07:00

Building digital capacity for the arts launch event, London, 10 March 2011
Chair: Will Gompertz Arts Editor, BBC News
- Sir Nicholas Kenyon Managing Director, Barbican Centre
- Alan Davey Chief Executive, Arts Council England
- Mark Thompson Director-General, BBC
- Tom Uglow Creative Lead, Google Europe, Middle East and Africa

Arts Council page for the launch

Hopefully this event marks the beginning of a more consistent and progressive attitude towards digital from our bigger cultural institutions- despite many brilliant and innovative torch-bearers in a number of the smaller institutions. While, frankly, the prospect of this panel was most terrifying it turned out to be all rather good fun and very very interesting.

My bit:

Q&A:

BBC Culture Show pt2. - collaborative film-making

2011-02-19T04:57:00.000-08:00

Part two of our session from last year:

Culture Hack Day 2011

2011-02-19T04:39:00.000-08:00

Culture Hack Day was an event that took place over the weekend of 15-16 January 2011, bringing cultural organisations together with software developers and creative technologists to make interesting new things

Here's my talk and here's the overview video.

And here are my notes

Huge thanks to Rachel, Erin, Katy and everyone involved - great day! more please.

What if the Web is a Fad? from Culture Hack Day on Vimeo.

Culture Hack Day - 15/16 Jan 2011 from Culture Hack Day on Vimeo.

BBC Culture Show

2010-12-14T15:04:00.000-08:00

This was fun to film, and fascinating too. Hopefully a prelude to a few more for the new series in 2011. But even if not - it's always nice to say you've been on the telly. (and yes, that is my shed.)

Guardian Tech Podcast

2010-11-13T04:50:00.000-08:00

I met Aleks Krotski the other day. She came to Google for a talk I gave about the Google Creative Lab as part of Internet Week Europe and afterwards we had a chat. Paul got Charles Arthur, so I am counting this as a win. You can hear the post here:

Overall Internet Week was a very very strange week... I was interviewed by the Guardian, introduced the Creative Lab, ran a three hour coding workshop for non-coders, got sworn at by Bob Geldof, was photographed looking like a marxist at Mother, was screen-tested by the BBC and got hit by a car ... and my day job was quite busy too.

I will post the deck from the Lab talk soon.

Coding for Dummies :: time to get #codefu

2010-11-13T04:23:00.000-08:00

"who knows what a server is?" (45 blank faces despite the slide on the screen)
"No one? Good. We're all starting at the same place"

Sometimes, over-enthusiasm gets mistaken for a good idea.
I have given short "HTML for non-engineers" courses at Google a few times and so we decided for Internet Week Europe to pair up with Mel at BBHLabs and bring the idea to the world.
We called it codingfordummi.es

We also decided to try and stick in css, javascript and html5... to see what happens.

The point is not to "teach" HTML or anything like it - but to just open up the engine and have a look, reduce the fear factor, and break down some barriers. The walls between those who code and those who think and those who use are getting unnecessarily high...

Admittedly it was also terrific fun and I think you get the best sense of the event by following the #codefu hashtag from the bottom
Jeremey Ettinghauser did a lovely blog post: http://bbh-labs.com/crash-test-dummy
Paul Truong did an awesome HTML5 overview
Jason Cartwright did some high-speed javascript
and I talked for 3 hrs...

Check out the deck

The Creative Internet :: 106 things about stuff that is cool

2010-10-08T15:22:00.000-07:00

For a number of reasons I put together this long deck of lots of interesting things: http://bit.ly/creativeinternet

It's not all new, (plenty of old stuff) and it's not all Googleness. In fact it's more about everything else (there is http://goollery.org after all). But it's definitely interesting.

Google Creative Jam UK

2010-07-11T04:39:00.000-07:00

Tom Uglow: Creative Lead Google & YouTube Europe

2010-07-11T04:35:00.001-07:00

Talk given at Three Drunk Monkeys in Sydney

WOW! 1 : Tom Uglow Creative Lead Google & YouTube Europe from Three Drunk Monkeys on Vimeo.

WOW! (words of wisdom) is a monthly inspirational talk at Three Drunk Monkeys. An informal presentation within the agency where we invite people that inspire us both locally and internationally.

This first episode features Tom Uglow, Creative Lead for Google and YouTube Europe, amongst other things he shares the endless opportunities that digital provides for new ideas. Enjoy.

Play: 22 things to do with video online

2010-07-11T04:35:00.000-07:00

Deck for a talk at BAFTA for the IPA/APA/Contagious event: Future of Advertising in One Afternoon

D&AD Inspiration Channel video

2010-07-11T04:26:00.001-07:00

87 cool things about stuff

2010-07-11T04:05:00.000-07:00

A deck I did with Andy Berndt that was delivered in an early form at Cannes 09 and later at NY Marketing Week.
bit.ly/87coolthings