Campfire with David Rowan, The Darkroom and Kinetica

To inaugurate the 2012 series of talks, and celebrate Campfire’s second anniversary, it is with great fanfare that we confirm David Rowan, the UK editor of Wired Magazine as our January storyteller.

Published by Condé Nast, Wired Magazine is the publication that no self-respecting technophile would be seen dead without. For decades it has predicted, with the unerring accuracy of a Casio wristwatch, where technology will take us and how it will transform our lives.

As its UK editor, David Rowan lives his life on the far side of Moore’s curve, anticipating future trends in their embryonic state. A seasoned speaker with a busy calendar of appearances, his talk promises to be of great interest to all Apple Store Geniuses, Silicon Roundabout entrepreneurs, GeekDads, WebMonkeys and Laundry-Folding Robots. So if you’re any of the above, make sure you reserve your seat fast.

On the ditto doors, Kinetica Art Fair will be sharing a sneaky advance view their 2012 exhibition, with displays by interactive artists Tom Wilkinson, Neil Mendoza and Anthony Goh. Staying with all things digital, we’ll also be having a surprise installation from the amazing motion graphics studio, The Darkroom, in our upstairs space.

And we’ll be celebrating our Campfire anniversary with the release of our 2011 Compendium, a print magazine and accompanying app featuring highlights from last year’s Campfire, Fireside Favourites and ditto doors. Be sure you don’t go home without yours.

So join David, ditto and all the artists in celebrating all things digital, in a very analogue way, with a room full of interested and interesting people, and a few bottles of wine. We can hardly wait, and neither can our office iMacs, which are already performing recursive searches in anticipation.