Gillian Fuller (me) is a researcher, producer and writer who works in and through digital cultures. I am both abstract and practical in my focus.
I tend to change disciplines and lives about every seven years but everything seems to circle around the same themes: communication ( the wonder of it) and complex systems.
About twenty years ago I trained as a linguist and then did a PhD in Semiotics. I was obsessed with modelling and structures. (Its a great training if you want to solve data problems in your later years!)
A little later I discovered digital cultures (as opposed to digital systems), began hanging with network theorists, started reading Deleuze, and began working with artists to solve research questions.
About seven years after that, I was calling myself transdisciplinary media geographer writing about systems of mobility and the relations of network architecture and bodies.
Now I am research director of a national online database servicing art and design research collaborations and I love it! Back to my roots with models, heuristics and ontologies, folded through the free and open ethos of digital cultures and working with lots of clever creative people.
I am also a very keen gardener.
