Bob Cotton is currently a visiting senior lecturer at Arts University Bournemouth, visiting practitioner professor at University of the West of England, co-director of the Visioneca Festival of Experimental Film, and a trustee and chair of the Development Committee of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust. He was recently Research Fellow at University of the Arts, London, and has written several books on the media arts, including Understanding Hypermedia (1993), The Cyberspace Lexicon (1994) and Futurecasting Digital Media (2002).