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Artist and programmer based in [[Glasgow]]. His work addresses coding both in terms of its low-level formal mechanisms and aesthetics and in terms of its higher-level relationships to social structures and systems. These issues are explored through software projects, written texts, discussion, and hands-on workshops. Current projects include spring_alpha, making social enquiry through game design, and YOUR MACHINES, a series of events and practical workshops based around FLOSS technologies and their social-political consequences. He is a founder member of [[ChIT]], the Chateau Institute of Technology, an artist-run recycled media-lab in the heart of Glasgow. Helped to setup the Glasgow branch of OpenLab. Has written on aspects of Free Software and cultural praxis and has contributed to publications such as ''Software Studies'' (MIT Press, 2008), the ''FLOSS Manuals'' and ''Digital Artists Handbook'' project (GOTO10 and Folly).
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'''Simon Yuill''' is an artist, writer and programmer based in [[Glasgow]]. His work includes the use of interview and research processes, film, publishing, and custom software systems.
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He is a founder member of [[ChIT]], the Chateau Institute of Technology, an artist-run recycled media-lab in the heart of Glasgow. Helped to setup the Glasgow branch of OpenLab. He has written on aspects of free software and cultural praxis and has contributed to publications such as ''Software Studies'' (MIT Press, 2008), the ''FLOSS Manuals'' and ''Digital Artists Handbook'' project (GOTO10 and Folly).
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He was the inaugural winner of the Vilém Flusser Theory Award (Berlin, 2008), Research Resident at the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, 2005), Honorary Visiting Research Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Warwick (2013), Researcher with Sociology at Goldsmiths College (London, 2013-2015), and Visiting Researcher with the Digital Culture Unit, Goldsmiths. [http://www.lipparosa.org/ (2015)]
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* editor, with Kerstin Mey, ''[[Media:Yuill Simon Mey Kerstin eds Cross-Wired Communication Interface Locality 2004.pdf|Cross-Wired: Communication, Interface, Locality]]'', Dundee: University of Dundee, and Manchester: University of Manchester, 2004, 143 pp, [https://archive.org/details/crosswiredcommun0000unse IA].
  
 
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* http://www.lipparosa.org/
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* [https://simonyuill.info/ Website]
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* [http://www.lipparosa.org/ Website] (-2015)
 
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* [https://independent.academia.edu/simonyuill Academia.edu]
  
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Latest revision as of 11:58, 8 July 2023

Simon Yuill is an artist, writer and programmer based in Glasgow. His work includes the use of interview and research processes, film, publishing, and custom software systems.

He is a founder member of ChIT, the Chateau Institute of Technology, an artist-run recycled media-lab in the heart of Glasgow. Helped to setup the Glasgow branch of OpenLab. He has written on aspects of free software and cultural praxis and has contributed to publications such as Software Studies (MIT Press, 2008), the FLOSS Manuals and Digital Artists Handbook project (GOTO10 and Folly).

He was the inaugural winner of the Vilém Flusser Theory Award (Berlin, 2008), Research Resident at the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, 2005), Honorary Visiting Research Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Warwick (2013), Researcher with Sociology at Goldsmiths College (London, 2013-2015), and Visiting Researcher with the Digital Culture Unit, Goldsmiths. (2015)

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