if:book:group

Chris Meade: I'm Chris Meade, co-director of if:book in London. At if:book we look at how the locus of culture has shifted from printed book to the screen. As a group, we have a variety of approaches. I've spent the last 12 years promoting books: poetry, children's literature and fiction. Recently, I've also become involved [...]

I was an editor at small publishing house - so small I did everything - we were trying to work out how to get books out there with no budget. So I used the internet a lot. Gradually I became more absorbed in that, and as well as blogging I now work for a [...]

I've been fascinated with words, stories (plot is the most accurate) since I was very young. I've also always been interested in computers and games. I'm involved with lots of projects: probably the most relevant to this gathering is 'The Written World', a collaborative writing project that we're launching in the new year. We want [...]

I'm a producer of arts organisation Foolish People. We create art, ritual theatre and meta-events using immersive, interactive, open-source myths.

I'm a director of the theatre group Foolish People. Foolish People is about the missing link, the piece that's always left out. Hermetica, esotericism, gnosticism. When people connect with the word, we're interested in how and what that connection is. The numinous. If people come away from our events without fundamentally changing, we've failed. We [...]