TEDxLeeds - Megan Smith - Embedding Narrative
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Megan Smith is a new media artist and PhD candidate in Contemporary Fine Art Practice at Leeds Metropolitan University. She uses the web as a space to source and make socially useful work. Her projects probe new systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often works with Arduino, geo-location, digital print, video... Read more
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- -: TEDxLeeds - Megan Smith - Embedding Narrative
August 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Megan Smith is a new media artist and PhD candidate in Contemporary Fine Art Practice at Leeds Metropolitan University. She uses the web as a space to source and make socially useful work. Her projects probe new systems for delivering syndicated data through narrative structure and she often work...
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- -: TEDxLeeds - Julian Tait - Open Data, The City & The New Federation
August 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Julian Tait is the Open Data Cities and Social Sensor Networks Lead at FutureEverything. Originally trained as a photographer, he became more involved with digital arts and how technology could enhance our everyday experience. He is a serial project initiator and community activist who is passion...
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- -: TEDxLeeds - Susan Williamson - For Whom Do We Build, Design, Make
August 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Susan Williamson is a retail architect and social scientist who started her UK career 25 years ago during the shopping centre boom. She found her interest increasingly turned to the rationale -- both cultural and economic -- behind transactional spaces and the expert users of those spaces: the sh...
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- -: TEDxLeeds - Stuart Childs - 60 Seconds
August 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Stuart Childs co-directs The Jam Jar Collective using computers and electronics to make installations and run workshops for adults and children. With a background in designing sound and lighting for theatre shows he now shows people how to pick up a soldering iron and start making things. Stuart...
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- -: TEDxLeeds - Matt Edgar - The Makers Of Leeds
August 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)MATT EDGAR works in product strategy and design management in the amazing world of web and mobile media. He's run product strategy for Ananova, home of the world's first virtual newscaster, and design and usability for Orange UK. Before that he learned to ask questions and write short sentences a...
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- -: TEDxLeeds - Rashik Parmar - Creating a Smarter Planet... City by City
August 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Rashik Parmar is IBM's CTO for North East Europe, a Distinguished Engineer and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. During his twenty six years of practical experience in IBM, he has worked for financial, retail and manufacturing clients on IT projects of all sizes. Overall, he specialises ...
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- -: TEDxLeeds - Usman Haque - Extreme Connectivity
August 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Usman Haque is the director of Haque Design + Research, founder of Pachube.com and CEO of Connected Environments. He has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances around the world. His skills include the design and en...
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- -: TEDxLeeds - Imran Ali - The City As A Platform
September 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Imran Ali is the founder of the LSx Festival of Technology and also a founding partner of emerging technologies lab Carbon Imagineering. Here, Imran welcomes TEDxLeeds2010 attendees and introduces the themes and speakers for the evening's programme. -- In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, T...
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Nelson Mandela: Address at ceremony receiving Freedom of the City, Leeds
April 30, 2001 (about 23 years ago)In this ceremony conferring the Freedom of the City to Nelson Mandela in Leeds, he humbly accepts this honor on behalf of all the South African people. He talks about the economy of his country and of mutually beneficial partnerships. He ends by inviting the people of Leeds to come and celebarte ...
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