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I'm the Director of MTF Labs, a Senior Researcher at the Industry Commons Foundation, advisor to ArtEO and founder of New Music Strategies.
I'm an author of books about technology, culture, music and radio. I'm also an award-winning broadcaster and filmmaker, a public speaker and lecturer, record producer and festival director. I am closely following developments in emerging technologies and the cultures and ethics surrounding them, and my projects typically focus on issues of justice, inclusion, and sustainability.
Most of my work involves surrounding myself with incredibly smart and talented people who would have no other reason to ever be in the same room as each other. That's when amazing things happen.
I tend to talk a lot about music (often jazz-adjacent and particularly on vinyl, but also playlists and mixtapes). I'm enthusiastic about food and cooking, the intersection of art and science, new technologies, vintage technologies, education, social progress, silence, innovation, narrative, data commons, culture, sound art and the spoken word. This blog will continue to reflect those diverse and shifting enthusiasms. I may also digress.
I'm from Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand, I have Scottish ancestry, I've spent a decade in the south of Birmingham UK, and another in a forest in the north of Sweden.
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Hi there,
I have created a new club night which will go under the name of – Endless Nameless. The launch night is Friday June 18th in the small room at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham. The club night will then be on the third Friday of every month thereafter.
We will be showcasing local and national bands, DJ’s and VJ’s but also keen on poets, comics and performance artists of any kind. I want this to be a platform for anything alternative that struggles to find an audience or venue to perform in. Grunge, rock, punk and breaks will feature mainly throughout the evening , hopefully this will create the usual Endless Nameless theme.
I was hoping you could spread the word and if anyone you know wants a chance to perform then by all means pass on my details.
many thanks
Steve Kelly