Bus-Tops is a collaborative public art project, comprising of 30 interactive, mass-participative LED screens attached to bus shelters across London. The project won the London arc of the Arts Council / LOCOG "Artists Taking the Lead" competition.

We caught up with Alfie Dennen of Art Public, the organisation behind Bus-Tops, to find out more about the project and how it has taken shape since its recent launch.
Daan Roosegaarde is the founder of Studio Roosegaarde, an internationally-recognised digital art and design studio responsible for many large-scale, interactive works across the world.

Studio Roosegaarde's work "Liquid Space" is coming to London this week, as part of the Kinetica Art Fair. We caught up with Daan to discuss the work, his influences, and the future of the studio.
Contemporary culture is as much a product of its past as its future. The comforts of who we were are challenged by the anxieties of who we could be.

In conversation to discuss these concepts and their relevance to culture, advertising, and society, are Leila Johnston and Chris Heathcote.
New magazine folio calls itself an "exhibition space on paper" and presents the work of several artists per issue. With print undergoing rapid and tumultous change, it's undoubtedly an interesting time to launch such a product.

Editors Merve Kaptan and Charlie Coffey, artists themselves, commissioned graphic designer, lecturer, and co-founder of agency We Draw Lines Paul Bailey to produce "A place is a space we give meaning", a special work which explores the content within folio issue zero. How do we experience three-dimensional, sculptural, time-based and de-materialised work within a physical, two-dimensional environment? We invited Paul, Merve and Charlie to discuss the challenges of print and how the work came into being.
Artist and former Imperica interviewee Max Dovey's new project, Yourhomepage, transforms Google Street View into a place where memories are explored – where we lived, the streets that we grew up in, and the areas which shaped us.

We invited Max back to talk to us about his new project, and how Google Maps and Street View are being used to interrogate and reawaken our memories.
A near-perfect storm of a contemporary culture that revels in the past, combined with mass computing power and storage to record seemingly everything, has changed the way in which we view the one thing which is uniquely ours – our memory. The ever-fragile relationship between subjective and collective memory is being transformed through what, on the face of it, is an increasingly ironic world: where everything is personalised within the context of a global shared experience.
To discuss the past, present and future of memory, Imperica invited two leading thinkers – Simon White and Gregory Povey - to come together for a discussion. Projects from the participants include MemCode and My Earliest Memory.


What is the the impact of connected technology on photography? If it isn't the ability to access millions of images at once and to access quality self-published work through Flickr, it's the total change in process and the relationship between brand, client, and the photographer themselves. How does all of this affect the professional photographer, and the role of the photography agency?
We asked two members of photography agency Vue - photographer Morgan Silk, and founder Cathy Bennett - for their views on how professional photography is changing through this multiplicity of impacts.

In mid-September, the European Council announced that copyright in sound recordings and performances was to be extended from its current duration of 50 years to 70. Known as Term Extension, this directive has been met with a wide and diverse range of reactions. Implementing Term Extension into national law has to be undertaken within two years.
We asked two experts on copyright and content issues for their views. Dominic's employer PPL licences the use of recorded music on behalf of 45,000 performers and over 5,000 labels; Joscelyn is an advocate of a freer, open culture for content creators and publishers.

The need to be agile is more important than ever in business, and advertising and media agencies need to be able to forward-read changes in technology, consumer behaviour, and social trends in order to maintain their own understanding of the world, and to pass that understanding onto clients at a premium price.
However, are the ways in which agencies relate to clients, and the way in which they price their services, right in today's commercial climate? We asked two leading thinkers and the authors of two recent articles on Imperica, Simon Kendrick and Jonathan MacDonald, to give us their views.

The view of what "design" is, and does, within society, is constantly changing. The role of artists and designers as shapers of society, and shapers of thinking, has become linked to particular periods and eras: sometimes positively, sometimes less so. What is the role of design and designers, and how can design help to create an optimistic future, when we are in a pessimistic present?
We caught up with Toby Barnes and Matt Ward, in advance of their talks at the tenth "This Happened" event to take place in London.





