Conville & Walsh

Imagine a world in the not-too-distant future, in which the internet has left our screens and inhabits the world around us, overlaid as an extra layer of what we see.

Fin is just out of rehab, having gone cold turkey on technology for six months. George, meanwhile is still plugging away at his job fixing holograms. Together, the two friends begin to realise that, underneath the gaudy spectacle of the projections, buildings, tube stops – even whole streets – are going missing.

Each page of augmented appearances and adverts is an artwork in itself, but as more places disappear, it becomes increasingly important not to believe what you are seeing…

About the Authors

Anna Mill studied Architecture at UCL and has worked in practice in London and Mumbai. Her solo work has been exhibited at Gordon Square and a collaborative project was shown at the Blyth Gallery and went on to be curator’s choice at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2010.

Luke Jones studied Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He won the Donalson Medal and Faculty of the Built Environment Medal for his degree project, an underground station in Venice. His published work includes a chapter in the ten year retrospective Bartlett Designs (London: John Wiley 2009), and the essay ‘A spectral turn around Venice’ Opticon1826 Issue No. 5 (Autumn 2008). He returns frequently to critique students’ work, and to teach at the Bartlett Summer School.

He and Anna have collaborated on a variety of architectural and illustration projects as Mill & Jones since mid 2007, and were runners up in the 2010 Observer / Jonathan Cape prize for their graphic short story, on which this novel is based.

Chris Day studied Politics and Philosophy at The University of Sheffield, winning the Peter H. Nidditch Prize for Philosophy. In the last few years he has worked for intelligent free newspaper ‘Notes From The Underground’ and video game company Square Enix.