Neil Forrester | |
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| Born | 3 January 1971 |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, Musician, Actor |
Neil A. Forrester (born 3 January 1971, in Keynsham, England) is a British research assistant in the field of developmental disorders and language acquisition at the University of London and former reality television personality.[1] He is best known to the general public as one of the cast members of the fourth season of the MTV reality television series The Real World: London, which aired in 1995. At that time he was the lead vocalist of an underground, alternative-orientated band called Unilever, which had punk and performance art leanings.
Forrester was co-founder of an online currency company called Beenz.com.[2] He is also co-author of a number of technology patents.[3][4][5]
In his current line of work he has written a variety of academic papers with such titles as "Learning the Arabic plural: the case for minority default mappings in connectionist networks."[1] He has a website at neilforrester.com,[6] but it now depicts a message simply stating "There is no neilforrester.com". It offers a link to the website shardcore.org, which currently contains an extensive collection of artwork developed under his alter ego, Shardcore.[7]