Chair
Timandra Harkness
<www.timandraharkness.com>
Timandra chairs and speaks at public events on scientific and cultural
themes. She is particularly interested in the current obsession with getting
Art and Science into bed together. A regular panelist on BBC4’s
MIND GAMES, she can also be seen on BBC Open University’s THE NEXT
BIG THING, discussing the elusive Theory of Everything. Timandra writes
for print publications including the Sunday Times, Telegraph, and Motorcycle
Voyager magazine. Online publications include Spiked-online and the Guardian
online. She is a member of the Association of British Science Writers.
Contributors
Rod Dickinson
<www.circlemakers.org>
A practicing multimedia artist who has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and has been involved in making crop circles for the last decade with collaborators at circlemakers.org. His recent work focuses on historical moments that disrupt historical continuity using virtual and installation components to reconstruct real and imagined historical events in live public situations. Rod lectures in digital media production at the University of West England.
Thierry Meyssan
<www.reseauvoltaire.net>
French journalist and author of ‘The Big Lie’ an inquiry into
the events of 9.11 which sheds new light on the overlooked evidence, the
contradictory testimonies, and the Pentagon’s refusal to allow an
independent enquiry into the crashes.
Douglas Rushkoff
<www.rushkoff.com>
Rushkoff analyses, writes and speaks about the way people, cultures and
institutions create, share and influence each other’s values. He
is the author of eight best-selling books on new media and popular culture
including ‘Cyberia’, ‘Media Virus’ and ‘Coercion:
Why We Listen To What They Say’.
Alasdair Spark
<www.wkac.ac.uk/ccc/index2.htm>
Head of American Studies at King Alfred's College, Winchester, UK. Used
to be interested in Vietnam; now interested in conspiracy generally, especially
Black Helicopters, Roswell and Cosmic Conspiracy mythologies. Working
on a book ‘Trust No One’ with Peter Knight for Rutledge, 1999.
Co-author of ‘The Centre for Conspiracy Culture’ website
Sandy Starr
<www.spiked-online.com>
Sandy is technology editor and public relations officer at the online
current affairs publication Spiked. He also writes for print publications
ranging from the Times Literary Supplement to The Sun newspaper, and for
online publications ranging from Open Democracy to Tech Central Station.
He has worked with the European Commission research project Rights Watch
on copyright regulation issues, and with the Organisation for Security
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Internet regulation more broadly.
He is a contributor to the Hodder Murray book 'The Internet: Brave New
World?', and to the OSCE books 'From Quill to Cursor:Freedom of the Media
in the Digital Era' and 'Spreading the Word on the Internet: Sixteen Answers
to Four Questions'.
