Sean Clark's Profile and Publications

Sean Clark BSc(Hons) MA FBCS
Artist and Technologist
seanc@cuttlefish.com
www.seanclark.me.uk

After graduating from Loughborough University in 1988, Sean worked as a research associate at Loughborough and Derby Universities. During this time he published extensively in the research press. His fields of interest were 'Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)' and the understanding of drawing and sketching behaviour.

He was an active participant in the Internet revolution of the 1990s and was involved in writing for, and editing, a number of newsstand Internet magazines, including NetUser, Internet Today and Total Internet. These had a combined monthly readership of over 40,000 and Sean can proudly claim to have introduced many thousands of people to the Internet. He created his first public website in 1992, when such sites in the UK numbered less than 50.

In 1995 Sean helped start web design company Headland Multimedia, working with clients such as Girobank, 3i, Raleigh Bikes, Alliance and Leicester, Cornhill Direct and Pace Micro Technology. He collected the Times/New Media Age award for Best E-commerce Site in 2000.

He went on to establish Cuttlefish.Com in 2001, a company with a strong focus on creating arts and community websites. In 2005 Cuttlefish.Com became Cuttlefish Multimedia Ltd (www.cuttlefish.com) was joined by arts organisation Cuttlefish Digital Arts (www.cuttlefish.org).

In parallel with his commercial activities, Sean has developed a successful practice as a digital artist and has maintained an active interest in research. His current interests are systems theory, emergence and artistic representations of flow and connectedness. Sean's digital arts activities have led him to work nationally and internationally on live performances and gallery installations.

In 2007 Cuttlefish began to develop expertise in Internet mapping and mobile multimedia, leading to the production of the 'cSocial' social media platform. Sean has since begun to integrate this technology into his creative work and has recently started to use cSocial as a vehicle for research in to 'locative media' at the Pervasive Media Research Group at De Montfort University (www.pervasive.org.uk).

Sean holds an Honours Degree in Computer Studies from Loughborough University and a Masters Degree in Digital Arts from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. In October 2009 he started PhD at De Montfort University researching the nature of systems thinking in digital arts. Sean is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a member of the Computer Arts Society.

Updated March 2010

Research Papers

2000

Stephen A.R. Scrivener & Sean Clark (2000) Uncertainty and Sketching Behaviour, Design Studies, Vol.21, pp.465-481.

1998

S.A.R. Scrivener, S. Clark & N. Keen (1998) LookingGlass Shared Distributed Workspace, in Encylopedia of Computer Science and Technology, eds. Allen Kent and James G. Williams, publ: Marcel Dekker Inc, New York, USA, Vol. 38, Suppl. 23 pp.315-333.

1996

Maryliza Maziloglou, Stephen Scrivener & Sean Clark (1996) Representing Design Workspace Activity, in Analysing Design Activity, pp.389-416. Edited by Nigel Cross, Henri Christians, and Kees Dorst, UK: John Wiley and Sons.

Robin Hollands (1996) The Virtual Reality Homebrewer's Handbook, with contributions by Chris Hand and Sean Clark. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0 471 95871 9.

1995

Sean Clark, Giles Mahoney & Stephen Scrivener (1995) A study into Video Conferencing Using the Apple Macintosh Platform, Advisory Group on Computer Graphics, Report No: SIMA 14.

1994

Stephen A. R. Scrivener & Sean M. Clark (1994) Sketching in Collaborative Design, in Interacting With Virtual Environments, Wiley Professional Computing, England.

S.A.R. Scrivener & S.M. Clark (1994) Introducing Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Publ: Avebury Technical, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, England, ed. S.A.R. Scrivener, pp.51-66, 1994 (Chapter 1).

S.A.R. Scrivener & S.M. Clark (1994) The Derby-Sydney Link: Utilising Design Expertise at a Distance, Cybernetics and Systems '94, Proceeding of the Twelfth European Meeting on Cybernetics and System Research, ed Robert Trappl, pp.483-490, Vienna, April.

S.A.R. Scrivener & S.M. Clark (1994) Experiences in Computer-mediated Communication, Information Systems Architecture and Technology Workshop, Szklarska Poreba, Poland, September.

S.M. Clark & S.A.R. Scrivener (1994) Using Computers to Capture and Structure Drawing Activity, Revue Sciences et Techniques de la Conception, 3(1). pp.51-59.

1993

Stephen A.R. Scrivener, Sean Clark, Anthony Clarke, John Connolly, Steve Garner, Hilary Palmén, Michael Smyth & André Schappo (1993) Real-Time Communication Between Dispersed Work Groups via Speech and Drawing. Wirtschaftsinformatik 35(2). pp.149-156.

S.A.R. Scrivener, D. Harris, S.M. Clark, T. Rockoff & M. Smyth (1993) Designing at a Distance Via Real-Time Designer-to-Designer Interaction, Design Studies, 14(3), pp.261-282.

Maryliza Mazijoglou, Sean M. Clark & Stephen A. R. Scrivener (1993) The Use of a Shared Drawing Surface as a Co-Ordination Tool, Proceedings of OZCHI'93, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp.23-34.

Sean Clark & Stephen A.R. Scrivener (1993) The Use of Interactive Computer Techniques to Capture and Structure Drawing Surface Activity, Proceedings of the First Symposium on Creativity & Cognition, Loughborough University.

1992

S.A.R. Scrivener, S.M. Clark, M. Smyth, D. Harris & T. Rockoff (1992) Designing at a Distance: Experiments in Remote-Synchronous Design, Proc OZCHI '92, Goldcoast, Australia, November, pp.44-53.

1991

S.W. Garner, S.A.R. Scrivener, A.A. Clarke, S. Clark, J.H. Connolly, H. Palmen, A. Schappo & M. Smyth (1991) The Use of Design Activity for Research into Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW), DATER'91 Conference, pp.84-96, LUT.

1990

S. Clark & S. Scrivener (1990) Knowledge-based Drawing Interpretation Using a Focus of Attention Strategy, Visual Search, (Proceedings Of The First International Conference, Durham, UK, September 5-9, 1988), Taylor & Francis, pp.249-260.

Newsstand Magazines

1995/6/7

Total Internet, Rapide Publishing
Consultant Editor from Issue 1 (December 1996) to Issue 2 (January 1997)
Wrote a cover-mounted book on Web design.

Get Online, Paragon Publishing Ltd.
Contributed to Issue 1 (Spring 1996)

Internet Today, Paragon Publishing Ltd.
Contributing Editor from Issue 10 (August 1995) to Issue 17 (March 1996)
Wrote articles, cover features and columns. Documented much of the creative internet work I was doing at the time. Wrote 'WebWeaver' articles on how to create Web pages.

NetUser Magazine, Paragon Publishing Ltd.
Editor/Consultant Editor from Issue 1 (July 1995) to Issue 17 (December 1996)
Wrote the editorial, columnist and commissioned articles. This title sold well and introduced a lot of people in the UK to the Internet.

1994

Audio Visuality, MCP Ltd.
Wrote for the first couple of issues in November/December 1994. Had an interesting media/lifestyle/technology mix. It went bust before issue 3. Perhaps ahead of its time?

3W Magazine, Ivan Pope
Wrote an article on VR resources on the Net for Issue 4 (June 1994) of Ivan Pope's pioneering Internet magazine.