HMC’s Director of Digital Futures, Adam Montandon will be speaking at a Wessex Media Group event taking place at Bournemouth University on 15 October 2008. He will be outlining ways of widening creative business opportunities using interactive digital techniques and considering how these build on traditional methods of storytelling and production.

Neil Harbisson, Eye-Borg wearer and student at Dartington College of Art: “I was in a lecture given by Adam Montandon in Dartington college and he was talking about cybernetics and cyborgs and how new technology can change the way we perceive the world and, when he finished and asked him if he thought it would be possible to create something so that I could perceive colour in some way and he said ‘Sure’, and we began a project.”
Guide Voice: What Adam created was the “Eye-Borg” – a means of transferring …

This is my story about coming to university
When I came to an open day at the University I saw one of the lecturers presenting some of the great games that final year students had created. When I saw them I thought, “I’d love to make something like that.” Four years later I was running my own software development company and winning countless awards.
After graduation I was very busy. I won the Submerge Award with three other students for creating an online game and, together, we worked really hard to build …