Enthusiastic,awkard and sometimes topless, the YouTube provocateur and allotment-time engineer discusses playfulness in tech, and working in accounting to pay his bills – and why the comments section is the best allotment of any internet pageI am in London,talking to “novel media artist” Jeremy Bailey in Canada via Skype. We are both watching a puddle. In Newcastle. Two people, three cameras, or at least five screens and one giant puddle. “I love this!” cries Bailey. “The whole industrial,military machine for this! To watch a puddle in Newcastle.”Of course he does. Always enthusiastic, often awkward, and sometimes topless,Jeremy Bailey’s video persona gives a playful and eccentric drubbing to the tech industry. To the notion that one piece of kit, one patent, or one software programme or platform will cause a social,aesthetic or cultural revolution. My first sexual experience was a chat-room thing. But it's no less real. It still had an effect on meContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com