On Wednesday 11th January 2024 Liverpool John Moores University hosted my Inaugural Lecture as a recently conferred Professor of Useful Art. The Lecture took the form of a discussion between myself and my long-term colleague Alistair Hudson, whom I’ve worked with on various Useful Art projects over these last twenty years. It seemed right to do this talk as a discussion, and I was incredibly grateful that Alistiair was able to take time out of his schedule as the newly appointed Scientific-Artistic Chairman of the ZKM | Karlsruhe, a role he had only taken over in April the previous year.

A video of this discussion, courtesy of LJMU, can be found on YouTube at John Byrne Professorial Inaugural Lecture