Ken Hollings hunting for non-people. Image via. This is an early draft of the foreword I wrote for Ken Hollings’ book The Bright Labyrinth: Sex, Death and Design in the Digital Regime, published December 2014. …
Journey to the Centre of Google Earth
This essay was commissioned by Anne Hilde Neset for Only Connect Festival Of Sound 2014: J.G. Ballard. It was published in the Only Connect catalogue, May 2014, edited by Anne Hilde Neset and Audun Vinger. …
Afterword: Changed by the Climate
All photos by Simon Sellars, Christchurch 2011. This piece was written in April 2011. It was originally published in October 2011 as the Afterword to Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe, eds Andrew Milner, …
Hakim Bey: Repopulating the Temporary Autonomous Zone
Hakim Bey: Repopulating the Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Simon Sellars. Originally published in Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Volume 4, Number 2, 2010, pp. 83-108. The poet and essayist Peter Lamborn Wilson is widely …
Concrete Island: J.G. Ballard Goes Dutch
interview by Simon Sellars Originally published on ballardian.com, 7 October 2005. Isabelle Jenniches, originally from Germany, is a multimedia artist now based in California. With collaborator Stefan Kunzmann she staged a theatre adaptation of JG …
Mitomi Tokoto: Japanese Cyber-Kid
interview by Simon Sellars Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 20 October 2003. There’s a unique sense of overload for the first-time visitor to Tokyo. Intricate layers-upon-layers of ever-shifting urban culture crush the hapless tourist, who’s …
Cornerfold: Reinvigorating Web Writing
Cornerfold screenshot: I Am A Toaster: Courtney Collins/Allison Colpoys by Simon Sellars Originally published in RealTime magazine, no. 55 June–July 2003. The New York Times recently posited that only two things succeed on the Internet: …