Reader in New Media Research at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University. He has an MA in Computer Art and Design and a PhD looking at new means of representing artefacts made possible by new technologies and media. He is the chair of Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) and was director of the Computer Arts, Histories, Contexts, etc… (CACHe) project which ran from 2002 – 5, and which was concerned with the history of early British computer art. He is the author of Digital Culture (Reaktion, 2002), Art, Time and Technology (Berg, 2006), co-editor of White Heat, Cold Logic (forthcoming, MIT, 2008) as well as many articles and papers on aspects of the relation between new media and culture. He lives in a village in North Yorkshire with his family.