Duncan Shingleton is a postgraduate researcher and digital artist based at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. His research is based in the emerging phenomenon known as the Internet of Things (IOT) refers to the technical and cultural shift anticipated as society moves towards a ubiquitous form of computing that facilitates the connection of everyday objects and devices to all kinds of networks. The Internet of Things creates a link between concrete objects and abstract data, producing a hybrid of physical and electronic spaces that enables communication and interaction between people and things, and things themselves. It is an all-encompassing framework to reflect on and design towards more digital connectivity, a system that is local and global, accessible in real-time from any location.

His research and practice explores theory relating to the attachment of data to objects, and the resulting the role these objects might have in our networks.