About
Associate Director of Imagination@Lancaster, a new interdisciplinary research institute at Lancaster University. Artistic Director and founder of the Futuresonic festival, and Director of FutureEverything, a creative, research-active 'community interest company' recently awarded Regularly Funded Organisation status by Arts Council England. Part of the interdisciplinary art group Loca, whose Loca: Set To Discoverable premiered at ZeroOne and ISEA2006 in San Jose. Curator of a Manchester Firsts project commissioned by Manchester International Festival. Has curated numerous international exhibitions on urban media, including Always On at Sonar/CCCB in Barcelona in 2006, when he was the first international guest curator on the Sonar programming group. Founder member of PLAN - The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network. Involved in early UK electronic dance culture as DJ and event organiser. Completed an MA (Distinction) at the University of Warwick, and a PhD at University of Lancaster.Current projects
LocaAn artist-led interdisciplinary project on mobile media and surveillance. Loca is an exercise in grass-roots, pervasive surveillance; tracking digital bodies in physical space.
loca-lab.orgFuturesonic
An International Festival of Electronic Music and Media Art, established 1995.
futuresonic.comSonarmatica06
International member of programming group for Sonar2006 festival in Barcelona
sonar.es All Drew Hemment's projects, past and present, are listed in the projects archive.
Texts: recent entries
Last Night An Arphid Saved My LifeA run in with Conrad Chase, the guy putting RFID in the arms of clubbers in Barcelona
Click here to read the article. Locative Arts (revised)
Discussion of locative arts practice available via Leonardo
Click here to read the article. Locative Media and pervasive surveillance: The Loca Project
A collaborative text with John Evans, Theo Humphries and Mika Raento
Click here to read the article. Locative Media
Edited LEA double special issue available via Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Click here to read the article. Read all Drew Hemment's texts in the texts archive.
Current projects
LocaAn artist-led interdisciplinary project on mobile media and surveillance. Loca is an exercise in grass-roots, pervasive surveillance; tracking digital bodies in physical space.
Futuresonic
An International Festival of Electronic Music and Media Art, established 1995.
Sonarmatica06
International member of programming group for Sonar2006 festival in Barcelona
All Drew Hemment's projects, past and present, are listed in the archive.