THE MESSY EDGE

Digital Culture Conference 2017-2019

As Director of Brighton Digital Festival, I developed and curated the Messy Edge, the Festival's in-house conference, designed to challenge the dominant narratives around digital technology and culture by inviting artists, activists and thinkers from outside of the usual white male perspectives that are over-represented in the conversation. As such, the conference was radically at odds with the usual digital culture conference offer.

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Testimonials

It was a pleasure to be part of Messy Edge. It's a lovely vibe and I really like your ethos. I especially notice and appreciate the work you have put into diversifying the voices represented, crucially without publicly patting yourself on the back for it and tokenising everyone in the process!

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Congratulations for another outstanding conference. It’s truly my favourite conference. It takes diversity seriously & provokes our understandings & mid understandings of (digital) society & culture. Truly the cutting edge of the #messyedge

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Thanks to Laurence Hill and the speakers, for yesterday's The Messy Edge conference. I'm awake early hours of the morning with a head full of the diverse, complex, engaging, challenging and currently, very relevant ideas presented. 

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#messyedge literally confounded my expectations. Well done Laurence Hill

for an excellently curated set of speakers. I like it when my reality tunnel is perturbed.

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