ABOUT CLASS WARGAMES: THE PLAYERS

The members of Class Wargames are:

Dr. Richard Barbrook, University of Westminster and author:
http://www.imaginaryfutures.net & http://www.theclassofthenew.net
Richard Barbrook is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages at the University of Westminster.

Richard studied for a BA in Social & Political Science at Downing College, Cambridge, a MA in Political Behaviour at Essex University and a doctorate in Politics & Government at Kent University. In the early 1980s, he was involved with pirate and community radio broadcasting. Helping to set up the multi-lingual Spectrum Radio station in London, he published extensively on radio issues during this period.

Having worked on media regulation within the EU for some years at a research institute at the University of Westminster, much of his material was published in his 1995 Media Freedom book. In the same year, he became the coordinator of the Hypermedia Research Centre at Westminster's Media School and was the first course leader of its MA in Hypermedia Studies.

Working with Andy Cameron, he wrote The Californian Ideology which was a pioneering critique of the neo-liberal politics of Wired magazine. His other important writings about the Net include The Hi-Tech Gift Economy, Cyber-communism, The Regulation of Liberty and The Class of the New.

In 2007, Richard moved to the Social Sciences School of the University of Westminster and published his study of the political and ideological role of the prophecies of artificial intelligence and the information society: Imaginary Futures.

Richard is a trustee of Cybersalon and a founding member of Class Wargames. He is currently carrying out research into the politics of ludic subversion.

Rod Dickinson, University of the West of England and artist:
http://www.milgramreenactment.org
Rod Dickinson is an artist and lecturer whose work explores ideas of belief, behaviour and social control. He teaches Digital Media at the University of West England in Bristol.

For the last eight years he has been making work that uses re-enactment as a strategy to investigate historic events that have a resonance with the present. Using interventions into social groups, and detailed research into moments of the past and present he has made a series of works that explore social systems and interrogate the belief and behaviour that attends them. This has included a live recreation of Stanley Milgram's controversial Obedience to Authority social psychology experiment.

His work has been internationally exhibited in institutions such as the Witte de With in Rotterdam, the Kunst-werke in Berlin, the Science Museum in London, the Institute for Contemporary Art in London and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. He lives and works in London.

Alex Veness, University of Southampton and artist:
http://www.alexveness.net

Ilze Black, Waterman's Art Gallery and artist:
http://www.hivenetworks.net & http://www.take2030.net

Fabian Tompsett, London Psychogeographical Association and author:
http://www.unpopular.demon.co.uk/lpa/organisations/lpa.html

Mark Copplestone, Copplestone Castings and figure designer:
http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk

Lucy Blake, software developer.