The South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) is a £6.5 million project to expand the use of creative technologies across the south west of England. The current cohort of 24 fellows are focussing their attention on automation, often regarded as ‘the ‘quiet’ revolution, working in the background and changing the way we live. Across a…
What is the creative potential of solitude? What next for storytelling in videogames? How do politics & power shape our ongoing relationship with technology? Interaction designer and leading IoT entrepreneur, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino; British video-game designer Sam Barlow; creative technologist and Global Games Jam founder Gorm Lai; interactive design studio Invisible Flock; intercultural contemporary theatre company…
Experience the North’s passion for the beautiful game like never before…. Large scale sonic installation, 105+db, brings the energy and roar of five Northern football stadiums to Great Exhibition of the North From this Friday 22 June 2018 interactive arts studio Invisible Flock, invites the public to experience a unique, mass-scale sonic installation, 105+db, at Great Exhibition of…
The leading ladies of electro and contemporary British jazz join forces as new media arts festival York Mediale announce their first music line up Suzaane Ciani / Kamaal Williams / Moses Boyd / Skinny Pelembe / Beatrice Dillon / Laura Cannell / Just Jam / Jonathan Herring New media arts festival, York Mediale, has today announced…
British TV stars brought the TIME’S UP movement to the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs) on Sunday to call time on sexual harassment, abuse and gender inequality Leading women from the TV industry – including Hayley Atwell, Millie Brady, Alexa Davies, Wallis Day, Claire Foy, Anna Hall, Liv Hill, Sharon Horgan, Vanessa Kirby, Alex Lawther,…
“Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights” Hillary Clinton On November 25, 1960, three sisters, Patria Mercedes Mirabal, María Argentina Minerva Mirabal and Antonia María Teresa Mirabal, were assassinated in the Dominican Republic on the orders of the Dominican ruler, Rafael Trujillo. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against…
What do Jose Ramos-Horta, Oscar Isaac and Victoria Barrett all agree on? That millennials have the biggest stake in our future and their voices need to be heard when carbon emission caps are decided. At the COP22 Global Climate Change Conference, a new eco-socio movement, The Future Is Ours, was launched. Backed by a seasoned select of academic…
The winners of the AHRC ‘Research In Film’ Awards have been announced at a special ceremony at the home of British film, BAFTA and the Ladbury team were there to join in the celebrations. Hundreds of films were submitted for the Awards in five categories. A panel of expert judges helped to decide the shortlisted…
A new report from the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism reveals that although millennials will soon be in control of $30 trillion through wealth transfer, they are fraught with comparative anxiety as they are made persistently aware, through social media, of their peers’ successes. The report, The Millennial Challenge for Inclusive Capitalism, produced by Impact Squared…
Last week, the Ladbury team sped up to Cambridge to meet a rather remarkable feline character, who’s fast becoming the talk of Cambridgeshire county. Cinder the cat is the latest digital delight from design studio Umbrellium Spawned from the searingly brilliant mind of creator Usman Haque, founding partner of Umbrellium, Cinder the cat embodies all…
As society’s need and desire for technology continues to evolve and expand, robots will inevitably play an ever-increasing role in our lives. Being There is a four-year project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which brought together five collaborative teams of researchers from the Universities of Exeter, Bath, Oxford, Cambridge…