Eyes Wide Open: How Stanley Kubrick saw humanity
Deep in idyllic Hertfordshire, in the last quarter of the last century, there lived an uncompromising genius. The director Stanley Kubrick was a recluse...
Face to Face // Screen to Screen
If there’s one thing a national lockdown has given me, it’s time. Weekly screen-time reports never fail to astound me – minding my business,...
Oxford backs COVID-19 tracking study
The University has announced that it will be supporting a new government study to track coronavirus in the general population.
The study aims to improve...
A country without libraries: what we are missing
You might think that working in a library would be a nice, peaceful job. That’s what I thought too. After spending two years working...
How Life in Lockdown is Preparing us for Smart Cities
Empty London buses follow the usual circuits on clear roads, like Scalextric cars. Churches take to streaming Sunday service. Students, uncertain about their foreseeable...
Folding@Home: the virtual fight against a global pandemic
As we all isolate at home in the middle of this outbreak, it is difficult not to feel powerless. We are not medical professionals,...
The Virtual Museum: Can technology transform the gallery space?
Curators must employ the technology of the future to breathe life into the past.
Truth and Technology: a Fraught Relationship
Recent discussion on the topic of so-called ‘fake news’ has exponentially grown. The use of the term “fake news” itself has increased by 40x...
Has video killed the Radio Star ?
Is it time to wave radio goodbye in the 2020s? Broadcasting audio across the airwaves seems antiquated. Do we not live in a world of virtual reality and TikTok videos, our eyes continuously glued to a screen?
The Early Roots of Film
The Parisians screamed. And it seemed a perfectly reasonable response. After all, packed into a musty early cinema, they had just witnessed the Lumière...
Magazines: a media migration
In a world where relaxation takes the form of 6 second Vines and temporary Snap stories, and where we are used to having our entire culture and news filtered through to us in carefully curated 280-word tweets, how can traditional print press compete?
Art in the Age of Technology
Imagine the future. You walk into a room expecting an art gallery. Instead, you come face to face with a baron white cubicle. A woman stands in the corner, holding a pair of VR glasses. She hands them to you. Puzzled, you put them on.
Byron, Elvis and Kim: Celebrity Now
With social media platforms, we are now closer than ever before to celebrities and influencers. But has this changed the way we perceive them? George Rushton explores the celebrity/fan relationships across the ages.
LOVE/SICK – ‘Your trip to Tesco’s will never seem the same again’
Matter of Act’s ambitious new production in an “alternate suburban reality” details the joys of falling in and out of love.