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Richard Vickers is a Senior Lecturer in New Media at the Hull School of Art & Design. He
previously worked as a freelance photographer and designer, before becoming
interested in the possibilities of interactive multimedia in 1994. The emerging digital technologies had an immediate impact on his work as a photographer and he was an
early exponent of the ‘digital darkroom’. He gained industry practice as a multimedia producer, working on a broad range of websites and interactive multimedia projects
for commercial clients and arts organisations, before moving into lecturing full time.

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Venue: Java's Cafe, University of Limerick, Castletroy

In 1968 Andy Warhol stated that; ‘In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes’. Considering the mass popularity of reality TV shows such as Big Brother & The
X Factor, and the ability to publish your own video content via media sharing sites such
as YouTube; Warhol’s statement seems more pertinent today than ever.
Utilising new media technologies; the web and mobile cameraphones, 15x15 offers
the opportunity for anyone, anywhere, to be world famous……. for 15 seconds.
Anyone can contribute to the piece using a standard mobile camera phone that can
capture video, and can send video clips directly from the camera phone using MMS (Multimedia Message Service) to +44 (0) 7968 573084, via email to me@15x15.org
or upload from a personal computer to the online database www.15x15.org
The clips can be longer than 15 seconds but will be reduced to that length, participants
can send as many clips as they wish. The clips can be portraits, experiential, vignettes, experimental, anything within reason, from the banal to the downright bizarre!