From 19 December 2020 the Royal Opera House will present the world’s first opera in hyper reality: Current, Rising – a unique collaboration between the Royal Opera House’s innovation programme, Audience Labs, award-winning Figment Productions and Royal Holloway, University of London. Developed by a female-led creative team and funded by UK Research and Innovation, Current,…
Container is a new online magazine that puts the spotlight on the people and processes behind creative tech, and provides a platform for voices outside the mainstream. The magazine will be a home for different stories about creative technology: an emergent and expansive field that harnesses the powers of technology for social and cultural means….
Soundworlds is a new four-part series of theatre podcasts directed by dramaturg Patrick Eakin Young and produced by Eleanor Turney using binaural sound to transport the listener to new worlds. The series takes the best bits of radio, theatre, sound art and story made by exceptional artists, musicians, ensembles and theatre-makers from the UK and internationally,…
Watershed has today been awarded £731,993 from Arts Council England, as part of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund, one of 1,385 cultural and creative organisations across the country receiving urgently needed support. The award will allow Watershed to re-instate the reserves that were used for survival during the pandemic, and to invest in some…
WATCH, VOTE AND HAVE YOUR SAY NOW Depict is Watershed’s brilliant ultra-short film competition. Free to enter and open to anyone from anywhere in the world, there is just one rule – all films must be 90 seconds or less! This year’s shortlist has just been announced and Watershed are asking for your votes to…
The Watershed building in Bristol opened this week. Ahh how we’ve missed them! Their cinemas will reopen today with a brilliant and characteristically eclectic programme they’ve called ‘Films That Love the Cinema’ …and love to be seen in the cinema. A host of films that are at their best seen in the unique shared experience…
Excellent blog below from South West Creative Technology Network Data Fellow Tracey Bowen, creative, musician, producer and Pervasive Media Studio resident, who is researching blockchain solutions for data privacy and autonomous control. Data Dignity For All Data dignity and data rights are now buzzwords but what do they mean? Well, by now most of us…
Just a few weeks after opening, one million people have already visited Virtual Factory, the new digital manifestation of The Factory, the landmark cultural space currently under construction, which will be Manchester International Festival’s year-round home. Gamers and non-gamers alike have been experiencing Your Progress Will Be Saved by the artist avatar LaTurbo Avedon, Virtual…
A timely and unconventional limited edition artwork delivered to your home, from (typically) digital-art producer Abandon Normal Devices (AND), creative prompt cards Abandon Normal Strategies aspire to galvanise alternative approaches to thinking during this extraordinary time of change and profusion of screen-based activity. Inspired by Oblique Strategies, Abandon Normal Devices has invited AND artists and…
Another fascinating SWCTN blog, this time from Data fellow Grace Quantock revealing common experiences and responses to data gleaned from her work as a trauma therapist. Emotional dysregulation Traumatic stress tends to evoke two emotional extremes: feeling either too much (overwhelmed) or too little (numb) emotion.(1) Trauma breaks boundaries; the boundaries of our body, our…
Interesting and timely blog from South West Creative Technology (SWCTN) Data fellow Corinne Stuart, an engineer/maker with experience in both automotive and product design. Through the fellowship she will explore the true environmental impact of our data usage. Yes, we are not flying, driving, shopping as we were a few months ago but we are…
Launching today, world premiere of the first Virtual Factory commission reimagines OMA’s landmark design for Manchester International Festival’s future home Other Virtual Factory artists premiering original digital work over the next 12 months include Jenn Nkiru, Robert Yang and Tai Shani The influential avatar artist and curator LaTurbo Avedon has created a new work for…