The Black Operatives Department – Performances & Keynotes

I met with a friend last week who looked at me sternly and asked, “Marcus, what the hell is The Black Operatives Department? I like it, but what is it?” He’d never seen the talks live and had no frame of reference. As we chatted I realised that I’d never sat down and explained properly why I’m doing it, the …

Zombie Apocalypse Marcus John Henry Brown

Zombie Apocalypse and other peak pixel fantasies.

I’ve started scripting my talks, writing them out longhand, typing them up and performing them directly from the script. This has become part of my talking format, and it seems to work for me. I spoke at Silicon Beach in Bournemouth a couple of weeks ago, and as my talk wasn’t filmed I’ve decided to post the script here. I’ve …

The Black Operatives Department – Theories and Conditions.

I did/spoke/performed “The Parallel” at a conference a couple of weeks ago. Sadly, it wasn’t recorded and I’m not sure if I’ll have the chance to do it again. I’m toying with the idea of doing something on my own – maybe a show, like the Garden of Tweetdome things I did a couple of years ago. I had hair …

Using Artefact Cards to build The Parallel.

Behind the curtain – making of The Parallel.

I’ve been asked to talk at an event in Berlin this coming November and I’m quite excited about it. Philip and Jens asked me if I would be interested in doing „something about algorithms that go shopping, something a bit weird. You do weird, can you do it for us?“, during a lunch break at this year’s re:publica and I …