Dr Drew Hemment

Hemment
Associate Director
Art Curation, Open Data, Social Technologies, Smart Cities, Digital Innovation
+44 (0) 1524 510889
d [dot] hemment [at] lancaster [dot] ac [dot] uk

Drew Hemment is Associate Director of ImaginationLancaster. His research explores the connections between people, emerging technologies and possible futures. This work is outward-facing, and Hemment acts as an intermediary, creating connections across the creative and digital economy spanning arts, policy, industry, research and various communities. Areas of research interest include Art Curation, Open Data, Social Technologies, Urban Interface, Digital Innovation, Knowledge Exchange, Locative Media, Open Source Culture. Co-Director of the MA in Professional Contemporary Arts Practice.

Current projects include The Creative Exchange, an AHRC Knowledge Exchange Hub in the Creative Economy, and CaTalyST Citizens Transforming Society: Tools for Change (EPSRC). He is Founder and Director of FutureEverything, a non-profit organisation that runs year-round innovation labs and the UK's leading event showcasing and driving emerging trends in new media. Shortlisted for Big Chip 2011, Winner of Lever Prize 2010, Shortlisted for Big Chip International Award for Innovation 2010 and Arts & Business Award 2010, Runner Up Lever Prize 2009, Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2008 for the artwork Loca: Set To Discoverable.

Updates and Outcomes

CX Funded PhD Studentships

Lancaster University is seeking to recruit five PhD students to participate in an exciting collaborative project with a range of academic and industrial partners in the creative and digital industries.

The five studentships are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council via The...Read full update

First CX Management Meeting

First CX Management Meeting

The Creative Exchange is picking up pace after the first management meeting for 2012

The Creative Exchange Hub Management team members from Lancaster University, Newcastle University and The Royal College of Art met in Newcastle to make key decisions about how the Hub will develop over the...Read full update

Olympics Data Visualisation RND

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Olympics Data Visualisation RND

Drew Hemment has been commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad in the Northwest to lead an RND project on the potential for data visualisation for London 2012.

Millions of mouse clicks and thumb prints will generate a huge volume of data. Data is the material for datavisualisation...More information

The Data Dimension at FutureEverything 2011

Articleby Drew Hemment, Kevin Smith
The Data Dimension at FutureEverything 2011

This article was published on Rhizome.org in May 2011 read article.

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The Data Dimension

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The Data Dimension

The Data Dimension exhibition at FutureEverything 2011 (Manchester, UK) featured a diversity of design and art projects which gesture towards a data-driven culture. 

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Data Visualisations selected by Aaron Koblin

Data Visualisations selected by Aaron Koblin

A selection of leading edge data visualisations by Aaron Koblin, presented as a part of the Serendipity City exhibition at FutureEverything 2010

We live our lives surrounded by data. 

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CX Funded PhD Studentships

Lancaster University is seeking to recruit five PhD students to participate in an exciting collaborative project with a range of academic and industrial partners in the creative and digital industries.

The five studentships are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council via The...Read full update

First CX Management Meeting

First CX Management Meeting

The Creative Exchange is picking up pace after the first management meeting for 2012

The Creative Exchange Hub Management team members from Lancaster University, Newcastle University and The Royal College of Art met in Newcastle to make key decisions about how the Hub will develop over the...Read full update

Data Visualisations selected by Aaron Koblin

Data Visualisations selected by Aaron Koblin

A selection of leading edge data visualisations by Aaron Koblin, presented as a part of the Serendipity City exhibition at FutureEverything 2010

We live our lives surrounded by data. 

...Read full update

Prime Numerics data visualisation by Sosolimited

Prime Numerics data visualisation by Sosolimited

A live data visualisation by USA design group Sosolimited that remixes in realtime the 2010 UK election TV debate, curated by Drew Hemment.

The 2010 UK election TV debate featuring Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg was remixed in realtime in a datavisualisation artwork...Read full update

Data Visualisation: Interpreting Complexity - Aaron Koblin lecture at Futuresonic 2009

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Data Visualisation: Interpreting Complexity - Aaron Koblin lecture at Futuresonic 2009

14th of May 2009, Manchester

Data Visualisation allows the representation of abstract concepts through visual means. Aaron's talk looks at the work of data visualisation artists and how they can help the understanding of complex environmental issues.

Aaron Koblin is an...Read full update

Open Lab - Environment 2.0 Design Principles

Event3 years ago
Open Lab - Environment 2.0 Design Principles

16th of May 2009, Manchester

A one day Open Lab unconference event exploring the theme of designing citizen science and mass participation projects on the environment, biodiversity and climate. It helped to evaluate the Environment 2.0 Participatory Mass Observation projects...Read full update

The Data Dimension at FutureEverything 2011

Articleby Drew Hemment, Kevin Smith
The Data Dimension at FutureEverything 2011

This article was published on Rhizome.org in May 2011 read article.

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Environment 2.0 Art Exhibition Curatorial Essay

Articleby Drew Hemment
Environment 2.0 Art Exhibition Curatorial Essay

The Environment 2.0 art theme at Futuresonic 2009 is the culmination of three years of activities in Manchester, Singapore, Lancaster and Berlin. It adds an engagement in the environment to the festival's now perennial themes of society, technology and the city, in an exhibition featuring thirty international artists and ten world premieres.

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Pilot Carbon Audit

Articleby Drew Hemment, Paul Upham, Philip Boucher, Steve Connor, Holly Waterman

ImaginationLancaster and FutureEverything have worked in partnership with Tyndall Centre Manchester to help FutureEverything (formerly Futuresonic) begin its work on measuring, managing and mitigating the festival's contribution to climate change. The Tyndall Centre brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists who together are working to develop sustainable responses to climate change through...Read full article

Book Chapters

The Loca Project: Locative media and pervasive surveillance.. / Hemment, Drew ; Raento, Mika ; Humphries, Theo ; Evans, John.

In: The Hothaus Papers: Paradigms and Perspectives in Media Arts. ed. / Joan Gibbons ; Kaye Winwood. Vivid Publication in association with Article Press, UCE, 2006. p. 163-166.

Research output : Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter

Mobile connections : curator's statement.. / Hemment, Drew .

In: Futuresonic 2004. Manchester : Futuresonic, 2004. p. 5.

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Journal Articles

Climate bubbles : project development and trial.. / Hemment, Drew ; Buontempo, Carlo ; Dennen, Alfie.

In : Leonardo , Vol. 44, No. 1, 02.2011, p. 64-65.

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100 years of climate change : project development and trial.. / Hemment, Drew ; El-Sherbini, Yara ; Carlo, Buontempo ; John, Tweddle.

In : Leonardo , Vol. 44, No. 1, 02.2011, p. 68-69.

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Participatory mass observation and citizen science.. / Hemment, Drew ; Ellis, Rebecca ; Wynne, Brian .

In : Leonardo , Vol. 44, No. 1, 01.2011, p. 62-63.

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Biotagging Manchester: project development and trial.. / Nold, C. ; Tweddle, J. ; Ellis, Rebecca ; Hemment, D ; Wynne, B .

In : Leonardo Transactions , 01.2011.

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Biotagging Manchester : project development and trial.. / Nold, C. ; Tweddle, J. ; Ellis, Rebecca ; Hemment, Drew ; Wynne, Brian .

In : Leonardo Transactions , 01.2011.

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Creative assemblages : organisation and outputs of practice-led research.. / Wilkie, Alex ; Gaver, William ; Hemment, Drew ; Giannachi, Gabriella.

In : Leonardo , Vol. 43, No. 1, 02.2010, p. 98-99.

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Environment 2.0 : participatory mass observation.. / Hemment, Drew .

In : Leonardo , Vol. 43, No. 2, 04.2010, p. 104-104.

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Freeing urban space.. / Hemment, Drew .

In : Filter , Vol. 67, 2008.

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Locative arts.. / Hemment, Drew .

In : Leonardo , Vol. 39, No. 4, 08.2006, p. 348-355.

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Locative media guest editorial.. / Hemment, Drew .

In : Leonardo Electronic Almanac , Vol. 14, No. 3, 07.2006.

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The mobile effect.. / Hemment, Drew .

In : Convergence : the International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies , Vol. 11, No. 2, 06.2005, p. 32-40.

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The locative dystopia.. / Hemment, Drew .

In : nettime.org , 04.01.2004.

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e is for Ekstasis.. / Hemment, Drew .

In : New Formations , Vol. Spring, No. 31, 1997, p. 23-38.

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Conference Contributions

Everyday imagination, practices, systems : designing with people for systemic change. / Buscher, Monika ; Hemment, Drew ; Sangiorgi, Daniela .

2008. Paper presented at Changing the Change conference, Turin, Italy.

Research output : Contribution to conference › Conference paper

Other

Environment 2.0: Through Cracks in the Pavement - Leonardo Call For Papers. / Hemment, Drew .

Research output : Other contribution

Loca: Set To Discoverable.. / Hemment, Drew ; Evans, J. ; Humphries, T. ; Raento, M..

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Futuresonic.. / Hemment, Drew .

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Themes

Key Projects

Environment 2.0Environment 2.0 Environment 2.0 Investigating new forms of social sensing and participatory observation of local environment and climate.
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