Simon Mills
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- For the producer and director, see Simon Mills (producer/director)Simon Mills (producer/director)Simon Mills is a television producer who amongst others, was responsible for Above The Below, and has been working with Derren Brown on The Heist, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Trick Or Treat and The System as well as Death Wish Live, a week of live television stunts for Channel 4.-External...
Simon Mills is a writer/artist/programmer who was instrumental in the foundation of the influential new media organisation the trAce Online Writing Centre, where he designed and built the first website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
and remained principal designer until 2005.
On leaving trAce, Mills became Senior Lecturer in New Media at De Montfort University
De Montfort University
De Montfort University is a public research and teaching university situated in the medieval Old Town of Leicester, England, adjacent to the River Soar and the Leicester Castle Gardens...
, where he teaches new media and is course leader for the post-graduate Diploma in New Media Publishing.
Until recently, Mills edited the Online Journal of Culture & Technology. One of his current projects is framed, which marks the closing of the journal and augments it as a record of this period by interviewing many of the artists and writers it published with regard to their practice, both past and present, and to enquire with them about the current state of new media art and writing.
Simon Mills is also a digital artist whose work includes Glory Hole, a collaboration with poet Catherine Byron, and Let us Turn, a response to Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...
's poem from Leaves of Grass.
