Ivan Pope
Ivan Pope is a writer, artist and long distance cyclist who lives in Brighton. He graduated from Goldsmiths College Fine Art BA in 1990 alongside the YBA generation. After graduating Pope was involved with a number of early internet developments in the UK and across the world. He invented the cybercafe at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and founded the world’s first web magazine, The World Wide Web Newsletter in 1993 and wrote extensively for Internet magazines throughout the 1990s. He started one of the first UK web companies, Webmedia, and invented the domain name industry at NetNames. He has taught at art colleges in London, Newport and Brighton and worked with performance group, Loophole Cinema, for ten years. His family now grown up, he is a writer of fiction and psychogeographic non-fiction. Following an MA in creative non-fiction at UEA he has recently completed a PhD in creative non-fiction at Plymouth University which focussed on the landscape of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. He is currently writing a chapter called The destructive superpower: attention deficit and the search for stimulation for A Handbook of Neurodiversity and Creativity.