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I went to Ars Electronica for a few days last month (thanks to the lovely arts council) which was fantastic I thought.

There was so much to see that I didn't do it all justice once round, and I'd happily have gone round everything again when I had.

So this isn't really any sort of measured judgement, more of a "I liked this. And this. Oh, and this. And this."

The only judgement I've made is to put what I liked into three groups, themed around what I'm interested in,

The Fourth Plinth event a couple of Sundays back was a revival of early 00s SMS media art projects like

No one is excluded from digital opportunities, or any other opportunities!

We don't live in a centralising, homogenising plutocracy in which rule sets are made in the best interests of a few tens of thousands of wealthy and privileged people.

The last 18 months have proved that!

So there is no need to challenge the plutocracy, or challenge exclusion.

Martha Lane Fox isn't at the heart of, and hasn't profited from, a plutocracy and that is why she will never ever ne

This is a poem written by a member of a readers and writers group that has sprung up round Kirklees Council's INtouch digital TV service.

It's nicely written and quite moving in its self awareness and honesty about loneliness, isolation and ageing.

And the more so for being, as I imagine it, keyed into a TV set by the writer.

And read on a TV screen by the invisible group, which almost feels old