About
Justin Pickard is an MA student, futurist, infovore, and all-round zeitgeist limpet.
- BA (Hons.) in International Relations & Anthropology from Sussex (2005-2008)
- “GM” on the Institute for the Future’s massively-multiplayer forecasting game, Superstruct (Sept 2008)
- editorial intern at Wired UK (Jan 2009)
- studying for an MA in Digital Media at Goldsmiths, University of London (2009-2010)
Current interests:
- the digital & the material – 3D printing, digital distribution, AR & VR, screen cultures, locative media, cartography, telepresence and notions of the digital or sentient city
- representations of the future – in science fiction, film, design fictions, concept art and public discourse
- remediation – the dynamic by which new media pays homage to, rivals, and refashions earlier media forms
- information politics – piracy, post-scarcity economics, intellectual property, open source, peer production and ethonomics
Long-term game plan:
- house made from reclaimed shipping containers
- sprawling magazine articles about science, technology, politics and culture – and the places they come into contact
- offbeat sci-fi stories, compiled in thin paperbacks with strange covers
- general gallivanting
He can also be found on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious and LinkedIn.