Robert Sharl: Profile

I’m currently a Lecturer at Birmingham City University within the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, and the founder of Futurilla, a network for new ideas around technology, community, design and education.

My main blog for ideas is Usergland and my photos are on Flickr . My del.icio.us feed is at http://del.icio.us/sharl/ . Page updates are tagged page-updated .

A short biography for publication is available for download.

• Ultraparallelism: Birmingham 2004, Gregory Sporton & Robert Sharl
• Transformative Technology: Cybercultures, Prague 2005, Robert Sharl & Mike Priddy (Conference & E-Book)
• Transformative Technology (Expanded Print Chapter), 2006, Robert Sharl & Mike Priddy
• Identity 3.0: Composite Entities in the Emerging Metaverse, 4th Annual League of Worlds Colloquium, Karlskrona Sweden 2007, Robert Sharl & Michael Priddy (Conference Presentation)
• Art in Bits: The Cult and Culture of the Digital Image, Third International Conference on The Arts In Society, Birmingham UK 2008, Robert Sharl (Paper Presentation, July 2008)

In Progress

• Futurilla founder
• Protova.com ceo
• Metapod Project Lighthouse Wolverhampton Chief Technical Officer
• Darian Technologies Ltd Human Interface and Multimedia Designer
• Insatiable Founding Partner

• Animation/Animation for Games Design BA(Hons), Birmingham City University
• Visual Communication BA(Hons), Birmingham City University
• Visual Communication MA Birmingham City University
• Theatre, Performance & Event BA (Hons), Birmingham City University
• Visual Communication, SUIC, Bangkok
• Multimedia Design, Silpakorn University of Arts, Bangkok
• Moving Image/Graphic Communication, IVE, Hong Kong
• Multimedia Art BA, Lasalle SIA, Singapore
• Performance Design BA(Hons), UCE Birmingham
• Electronic & Electrical Engineering (Design Module), University of Birmingham

2005: December: Transformative Technology & Remix Culture on Web 2.0. Canterbury & Christchurch University, UK.

2006: March: Futurilla I. Web 2.0 & the New Frontier of Experience Design & Futurilla II. Digital Creativity, Learning & The Coming Singularity. MA Lecture series, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, UK.

2006: November: Digital Tools/Digital Spaces Visualisation Research Unit eScience for the Visual Arts lecture series. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham UK.

2007: June: Giraffe 1 – Tutorial Techniques Workshop BIAD’s Learning Teaching and Assessment Annual Workshop and Conference. School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham UK.

2007: November: Expert Facilitator for New Technology and Music Sessions Second Gigbeth Conference, Birmingham UK.

2007: February: Literature, Culture & Digital Media Archive. Consultancy and Guest Lecture on the use of Web 2.0 services to establish the Archive. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden.

2007: March: Digital Media BA (Hons) Programme Revalidation. External Examiner for Revalidation Panel, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

2007: July: Creative Visual Media BA (Hons) New Programme Validation. External Examiner for Validation Panel, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

2007: July: Digital Central Online Music Innovation Fund. Consultancy, applicant interviews and mentoring for successful music industry applicants to the fund.