Author Archives: Andy Polaine

In 1995, I co-founded the award-winning new-media agency antirom in London. I also spent a spell as a senior producer at Razorfish in London.

Tired of the London life, I visited Australia in 1999 to travel, lecture and get a tan. Charmed by the lifestyle, I moved to Sydney and started the interactive department of visual effects company, Animal Logic.

Since 2001 I have been a Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at UNSW’s College of Fine Arts as well as working as a freelance designer and writer. I write a regular column called Foreign Policy for Desktop magazine and occasionally for other publications and my own blog, Playpen. I also lecture, speak and have performed in various countries around the world. I am also working on my PhD at UTS with the title “Developing a language of interactivity through the theory of play” as well as writing a novel.

As if all that wasn’t enough work, I just finished a Guest Professorship here in Germany at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

Notes on Design and Questions

The fourth part of our conversation on Omnium and academia is online at Notes on Design and we would really like to hear some comments from others about the issues we discussed. So head on over and let us know…

Published by Andy Polaine on the 16th of September, 2008 in Learning & Teaching 0 Comments

Notes on Design - A conversation about Omnium

Notes On Design invited Rick Bennett and I to talk about our experiences of long-distance and global online creative collaboration within the Omnium Research Group.

Rick and I have often felt that some of the more interesting conversations we have had have been over a couple of beers in informal settings, rather than sometimes dry and […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 2nd of August, 2008 in Readings, Uncategorised 0 Comments

The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be

A few weeks ago I was invited to present at the Associate Deans Away Day at Northumbria University. I wanted to try and get them thinking a little differently about their university’s strategy for the future and where things might be heading.

I gave a talk called The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be that […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 23rd of July, 2008 in Presentations 0 Comments

A Vision of Students Today

If you enjoyed Mike Wesch’s now famous The Machine is Us/ing Us video about Web 2.0, you might like this one about the experiences of students today.

(Thanks to one my online Masters students, Kymaree Sheather, for finding this).

Published by Andy Polaine on the 8th of April, 2008 in Learning & Teaching 0 Comments

Tuition Fees Favour The Rich

The Guardian has a piece today titled, Tuition fees favour the rich - new study. Did anyone really need a new study to work that out?

In Australia, of course, tuition fees are nothing new, but they are a recent development for local students in the UK. There are a number of knock-on effects of high […]

Published by Andy Polaine on the 14th of February, 2008 in Learning & Teaching 0 Comments