WRITTEN ON Thursday, January 24th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art

T sends me this chemists’ joke…

WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art

We love pertinent art, ie art which describes our relationship with the state. And look: State Britain – a classic piece of pertinent art based on the Brian Haw protest – has just won some arty farty prize! Hurrah! The reason we need pertinent art in the benighted world of government IT is that the […]

WRITTEN ON Sunday, November 18th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Pertinent Art, What do we want?

The new reality in Britain seems to have Waterloo Station morphing into a scene from an insanely violent computer game. We wanted a succinct vision of an ideal e-enabled future…looks like the exercise of state power on our streets will look increasingly like something out of Halo.

WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 10th, 2007 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Pertinent Art, What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap

Initiatives such as ContactPoint and eCAF to improve sharing of social care information continue to provoke controversy. In light of the fears that surround the use of technology in the public sector, one of our favourite think tanks* today suggests that we should be looking ‘backwards not forwards’ (sorry Tony), for a solution. The obvious […]

WRITTEN ON Friday, July 6th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Pertinent Art, What do we want?

Leafing around for some other stuff I came across this striking No2ID ad. I hadnt seen it in the press.

WRITTEN ON Monday, June 18th, 2007 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Identity, Pertinent Art, Transformational Government, What do we want?

A conversation on the exemplary Jeremy Gould’s site observes that direct.gov.uk has a long way to go before being useful. I couldn’t agree more. My search for my old boss, Jeremy Heywood, newly appointed from his sojourn at Morgan Stanley to the post of (the incoming) PM’s senior adviser on domestic policy and strategy, revealed […]

WRITTEN ON Thursday, June 14th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Ideal Goverment - project, Identity, Pertinent Art, Transformational Government, What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap

It’s publicly official! We’ve had a sensational ideal government walk-thru experience. Ruth and I have been a bit preoccupied creating it and therefore perhaps a little quiet on this blog. Forgive us, but I hope you’ll agree the efforts were not in vain. Inpsired by our dear friends at the NCC and with the support […]

WRITTEN ON Sunday, May 13th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Identity, Pertinent Art

The fun-loving and smarter-than-you-think No2ID campaign has quietly been building up a gallery of Pertinent Art They’re saying that Jack Straw is lined up for Home Secretary and may axe ID cards (Telegraph, Guardian etc). Are they just teasing us? Or should we be rehearsing the Dance of the Intellectual Pygmies (previously seen here and […]

WRITTEN ON Thursday, May 10th, 2007 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Pertinent Art

WRITTEN ON Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art

From Gapingvoid: