Bob Cotton

Bob Cotton has extensive experience as a creative director, artist, designer, film-maker and writer on and about new media. His were some of the earliest overview books on new media to appear in the 1990s (Understanding Hypermedia, Phaidon 1993, The Cyberspace Lexicon Phaidon 1994). Recently he has focussed on Innovation, design, and the role that futurecasting (technology forecasting) plays in the design and innovation process (Futurecasting Digital Media, Pearson/FT.com 2002). He was recently Research Fellow in Digital Media at London College of Communication (University of the Arts, London), where he organised several conferences and exhibitions on new media. He has judged interactive media for both BAFTA and D&AD. Currently he is Visiting Practitioner Professor in Digital Media at University of the West of England, and recently a visiting Senior lecturer in Interactive Media and Film at the Arts University College Bournemouth, and Supervisor on the Press Association/University of the Arts, London Knowledge Transfer Partnership. He is currently building a resource for digital artists and designers mediainspiratorium - covering innovations in art and media from 1800 - present. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2016. His film ZeitEYE has insdpired a new orchestral work by the Spanish composer Pedro Guajardo Torres to be performed December 2018. His IOS app expanding mediainspiratorium for the iPad is in beta stage and due for release in 1019. He is also an associate working with Augmented Solutions Ltd on applications of machine-learning and augmented-reality. He is planning a self-learning ‘expert system’ based upon his mediainspiratorium.