Ben Vickers is a curator, writer, explorer, technologist and luddite. He is currently based between London and Athens. Curator of Digital at the Serpentine Galleries, is Co-Director of LIMAZULU Project Space, a Near Now Fellow and facilitator for the open-source development of unMonastery, a new civically minded social space prototyped in Matera, Southern Italy during 2014 and now set to replicate throughout Europe 2015/16. During his spare time he contributes to EdgeRyders, co-runs the nomadic talks programme The Thought Menu and host’s Open Funerals.