James Stevens

James Stevens is the founder member of SPC and lives with his family in Deptford

SE London. Whilst directing operations at web boutique Obsolete in 1996

he launched Backspace, the proto cybercafe on Clink Street, London Bridge; a

response to conversations with Heath Bunting on the needs for an

accessible place to explore creative networking and critical media in

public. After fitting it out with artist Tim Cook it was modeled by

digital native Dorian Moore to become a touchstone to a thousand web

coders and inventors, and inspiration for the technology spaces and

businesses that boomed in the years that followed.



James teamed up with Julian Priest in 2000 to present wireless network

primer Consume which advocated the open wireless networking that today

thrives at OWN based in Deptford SE8. SPC moved up to Deckspace in 2001

and retains the rooftop studio spaces for use by its subscribers and

continues to offer DIY web, mail and media hosting alongside a bramble

of experiment and collaboration in progress.