Alfie Dennen

Career

Dennen co-founded the mobile blogging platform Moblog, formerly MoblogUK, in November 2003. Commercial users of the service have included Ronan Keating, Bloc Party, Greenpeace, Elbow, Imogen Heap, Max Clifford, Channel 4, Oxfam, Amnesty International and Comic Relief. The service gained prominence in 2005 when Eliot Ward uploaded a photo to the site from one of the London Underground bombings.

Dennen responded to the terrorist attacks on London"s public transport system by creating the website We"re Not Afraid.

The site"s message was one of a public uniting against terrorism by refusing to sacrifice freedom in response to fear. Within days of the bombings, around 3,500 images had been submitted to the site.

The site was the subject of a British Broadcasting Corporation documentary and coverage included Sky News, Channel 5, American Broadcasting Company"s World News Tonight and the New York Times. Dennen"s Stopped Clocks project attempts to collate images of stopped public clocks and campaign to get them working again.

The campaign has featured on British Broadcasting Corporation News, London Tonight and The One Show.

In 2008, Dennen launched two art projects involving the creation of map-based images using mobile photography and Global Positioning System tracking. The first, in October 2008, was a treasure hunt around London to find photographs by James Nachtwey. Run in conjunction with the think tank Demos and XDRTB.org, the competition raised awareness of XDRTB. The second project, Britglyph, invited people from across the United Kingdom to build a nationwide geoglyph, placing rocks at specific locations around the country and uploading photos of themselves doing southern

The image was based on John Harrison"s Chronometer.

On 31 August 2012 Dennen re-launched the Big Art Mob project and was given control of the project from previous administrators Channel 4. The Big Art Mob in its new incarnation shifted focus from mapping the United Kingdom"s Public Art to mapping the whole world"son

Achievements

• Moblog collaborated with Channel 4 on the Big Art Mob, which won the On The Move Award at the Royal Television Society Innovation 2007. lieutenant was described as "a creative project that encourages almost everyone to get involved.. a large-scale example of television production in your pocket. Anyone can become a contributor or commentator, as long as they’ve got a mobile camera phone." lieutenant also won the MediaGuardian"s innovation award for community engagement in 2008. lieutenant also received 3 British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations across the interactive and mobile categories in 2008. Moblog also collaborated with ShoZu on Britglyph, which won the Experimental and Innovation Award at the Webbys 2009. On 14 August 2009 the Arts Council and LOCOG announced that Dennen"s Business.Tops project, in collaboration with Paula Le Dieu, was Shortlisted for the London award in the Artists Taking The Lead Public Art competition. The project was awarded a £5,000 development grant to further develop the project in competition with 4 other shortlisted artists for a £500,000 award to create a new work of public art in London. On 22 October 2009 the Arts Council announced that the Business-Tops project had won the competition.