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…
“Solar powered beauty” Evening Standard Next Friday, 8 May groundbreaking choreographer Alexander Whitley’s 2017 dance production, 8 Minutes, will be presented as part of Sadler’s Wells free online platform, Digital Stage, designed to keep audiences “entertained and connected through dance during this lockdown period, wherever you are in the world.” This critically acclaimed and visually…
The South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) have just announced their Automation Prototype Teams! There are eight in all, each receiving SWCTN funding over the next six months to bring their ideas to life in readiness for the Automation showcase later this year. They’ll be posting blogs on their progress, so keep an eye on…
Created by immersive book publishers and Pervasive Media Studio residents VIKA Books as part of the South West Creative Technology Network, Baby BSL: Where is the Bird? encourages parents of both deaf and hearing children to learn British Sign Language together, helping to make pre-speech between babies and adults a reality. In 2019 Baby BSL:…