Diarmuid Pigott
Murdoch University
School of Information Technology
South Street
Perth Western Australia
6150 Australia
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/

Diarmuid Pigott has a BA in Philosophy (University of WA) and a Graduate Diploma in Library Studies (Curtin University of Technology), and is currently a PhD student at Murdoch University, researching computerised representations of art-historical opinion. He has over twenty years industry experience in systems design and development, particularly in management of online digital assets and methods of knowledge modelling. His current passion is the archaeology of computer languages and their significance in the history of ideas.

Diarmuid will present The Gernsback Machine: Towards a Museum of Possible Futures and Probable Pasts.