marcus gilroy-ware
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I work in a number of different areas and media.
Some are specialities with years of experience, others not.
For me, they all converge around one nascent, as-yet unnamed discipline; essentially a deep and largely qualitative study of our creative and civic lives on the web.
My true interests and critical skills lie at this point.
different people think of me as...
a lecturer & speaker
Visiting Lecturer in Online Journalism at City University London, where I convene the online journalism curriculum for students on the Master of Arts in International Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism.
I have also recently spoken/taught at the Media Development Centre, Birzeit University (Ramallah, Palestine), Société Romande de Relations Publiques (Lausanne, Switzerland; given in French), Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University (Netherlands), London Design Festival (UK), School of Information and Library Sciences - Pratt Institute (New York, USA), Nottingham Trent University (UK) and Centre for Creative and Social Technology (CAST), Goldsmiths, University of London.
an entrepreneur
Founder and director of VSC Creative, a creative consultancy.
Co-founder of Smartest, a web standards-based content-management system for design-critical projects.
Original co-founder of Not on the Wires, although I have since left.
a lawyer
Well, not yet. I hold an LL.M. (Master of Laws) from the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London.
I am interested in where the legal meets the digital - everything from criminal law to defamation law to intellectual property and notions of ownership.
Law, like technology, is a category of tools, and best understood as a reflection of its creators, rather than simply in terms of what it is designed to achieve.
a coder
Created Smartest - a fully featured web publishing system - from the ground up, as well as Quince 2 - a rapid development architecture on which it is built.
Lead developer at VSC Labs
Preparing a number of forthcoming iOS projects that blur the line between technology and art; code and culture.
a journalist
Member, editorial board; Broadsheet, Frontline Club, London UK
Co-founder and former co-editor of Not on the Wires, although I am no longer involved.
I also write articles on a freelance basis.
Journalism is first and foremost an elusive philosophy of communication.
a linguist
Once upon a time, at least. Received a BA in Linguistics from School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College in 2005.
I speak Brazilian Portuguese (fluent), French (pretty good) and Spanish (good enough to explain vegetarianism).
a musician
I was named after a certain prominent electric bass player hailing from Queens, NY.
I have been an electric bass player since childhood. jazz, funk, avant-garde.
I studied contemporary improvised music with Yusef Lateef and Mark Dresser.
“Marcus Gilroy-Ware is a virtuoso electric bass player” --Mark Dresser, 2002
other things too
Member of the Labour Party in the ward of Stroud Green, London.
I am also a coordinator and contact point for the estate of my late grandmother, Dr. Beryl Gilroy, who was a novelist and well-known educator.