I have beem using the internet since 1989 and created my first website in 1993. Ever since then I have been documenting my activities (across art, business and research) digitally and I have built up a large archive of websites, pictures, videos, blog posts and items of digital ephemera. I am now starting to upload these materials to a single online location - cuttlefish.org. I expect to complete the processing and upload in summer 2023 - 30 years after I published my first website. After this I will begin on the next phase of the project - developing a conversational AI that will allow people to interact with the archive using natural language.
Dr Sean Clark
seanc@interactdigitalarts.uk
www.interactdigitalarts.uk
The 26th June 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of my registration of the domain name cuttlefish.com. To recognise this milestone,I have written A Brief History of Cuttlefish. The article includes screengrabs of the cuttlefish.com site ßßas it has developed over the years.
cuttlefish.com
1997
Cuttlefish
2001
Cuttlefish
2002
Cuttlefish
2005
Cuttlefish
2007
cuttlefish.org ↑
Archive
Interact Digital Arts ↑
Company
www.seanclark.org ↑
Artwork
Facebook ↑
@seancuttlefish
Twitter ↑
@seancuttlefish
Instagram ↑
@seancuttlefish
LinkedIn ↑
@seancuttlefish
GitHub ↑
@seancuttlefish
@seancuttlefish ↑
10,000+ Pictures
Sean Cuttlefish ↑
400+ Videos
(Under Reconstruction)
Computer Arts Society ↑
200+ Videos
Research Gate ↑
40+ Academic Papers
Google Scholar ↑
40+ Academic Papers
PhD Thesis
2018
1990s Magazines
Other Publications
CAS Talks ↑
2020
GDUT Workshop
2020
In The Dark 2
2020
CAS50 at V&A
2019
CAS50 2019
2019
Event Two at RCA ↑
2019
EVA London 2019
2019
GDUT Workshop
2019
In the Dark
2019
PhD Thesis
2018
27 Artwork
2018
Computer Arts Society ↑
2018 - 2022
The Art of Crass
2016
Art.CHI
2015 - 2017
Interact Digital Arts
2015 - 2020
Sounds of the Cultural Quarter
Hidden Stories
St Georges App
Empedia
Leicester Hackspoace
2014
Automatic Art Exhibition
2013
Interact Labs
2013
Interact Live 4
2012
BYOB @ Fabrika
2012
Interact Live 3
2012
Interact Live 2
2012
Interact Live 1
2011
The Interact Gallery
2011 - 2012
Computational Arts PhD
2010 - 2018
Stench
2009 - 2011
MA08
2008
Cuttlefish
2007
Autopoiesis
2006 - 2008
ArtScanner
2009
Phoenix Digital
2008
Confluence
2008
Summer Sundae Fringe Events
2006 - 2012
Summer Sundae
2008 - 2012
I See You
2007
DNA Sculture
2007
seanclark.me.uk
2005 - 2020
Moving Science
2006
Cuttlefish Digital Arts
2005
Cuttlefish
2005
Bathysphere Live Multimedia2004 - 2008
Cuttlefish
2002
Cuttlefish Radio
Leicestershire Villages
Meertrek CD-ROM
Early 2000s
Cuttlefish
2001
Vote Andy Reed
Pineapster
2001 - 2012
The WebWorks Gallery
Early 2000s
ClickIt! Photography
Early 2000s
Flow
2000
Zion Train Live Multimedia
2000 - 2003
Charnwood Arts
Early 2000s
The websites shown below were designed to run on 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 pixel screens so will look a bit odd on modern computers with largedisplays.
Pace Micro Technology
1999
Girobank
1999
Cornhill Direct
1999
cuttlefish.com
1997
Alliance and Leicester
Raleigh Bikes
3i
Universal Egg
1996 - 1997
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds
1006
Total Internet Magazine
1996/7
S4C
1996
TVWeb
1996
The work from this era took place while I was a researcher at Loughborough University and Derby University between 1989 and 1996. Working at a university gave me early access to the internet and and I was an active pre-web internet user. In 1993 I created a website about Virtual Reality, which brought me to the attention of Colin Angus from The Shamen and I worked with them on web projects over the following five years. This included at the Megatripolis club and at live events, such as Glastonbury 1995. When I moved from Loughborough to Derby University in 1994 I co-founded arts-group Resonance with Geoff Broadway, Noel Douglas and Jayne Murray, and in 1995 established an early web design company called DRC Internet. Resonance did a lot of events with Birmingham club Oscillate. I also did multimedia work with the band Zion Train and computer artist William Latham. I wrote for lots of magazines in the mid-1990s - most of which I still have copies of. These included popular newstand titles NetUser and Internet Today. My academic research at this time was mostly concerned with the topics of Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Virtual Reality.
The websites shown below were designed to run on 640 x 480 pixel screens so will look a bit odd on modern computers with large displays.
OSC Chillspace
Dec 1996
The Shamen's Hempton Manor
Oct 1996
ion Train's WobblyWeb
May 1996
Headfirst
May 1996
NetNatter
Mar 1996>
The Shamen's Heal Single Release
Jan 1996
Internet Today Magazine
1995/6
NetUser Magazine
1995/6
The Shamen's Forum Webcast
Nov 1995
Surf
Oct 1995
The Shamen's Axis Mutatis
Oct 1995
Livewire
Sep 1995
The Shamen at Glastonbury
Jun 1995
Feed Your Head
Feb 1995
Virtual Gallery
1995
Resonance
1995 - 1998
The Shamen's Nemeton
1994 - 1999
Audiovisuality Magazine
1994
1st UK VR-SIG Conference
Mar 1994
Visual Search
1989