International real estate developer, Tishman Speyer, in collaboration with Vigo Gallery and Encounter Contemporary, announces the debut exhibition of ‘Autonomous Morris’ by British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové at the newly re-opened Smithson Plaza. Standing at approximately 10-feet high, the ‘Autonomous Morris’ sculpture is the largest mask the artist has completed to date and is set to…
A contemporary arts programme of live performances by acclaimed artists and thinkers from around the world brought to rural Devon, to explore the ‘big’ questions in an imaginative, innovative and transformative way Dartington Live 2018 Totnes, Devon The Dartington Live 2018 autumn/winter (A/W) arts programme includes original commissions from: Upswing and Stratford Circus Arts with Bedtime Stories adapted for a Devonshire winter, a not so sleepy feat of acrobatics and adventure transforming the bedtime story for children …
Make a date to walk on water with AURORA From September 21 to October 7 a Victorian reservoir in Liverpool will become home to an exciting, high technology experience asking us to think about our increasingly uncertain relationship with water. It’s called AURORA and its appearance could not be more timely. A wet winter has…
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…
The British Council and Watershed have today announced the two UK creatives who won the Playable City Tokyo 2018 open call to travel to Tokyo for a two-stage residency in June and September 2018; Bristol-based designer Tom Metcalfe and London play scholar, Sophie Sampson. The residency is an opportunity to collaboratively research and develop playful…
On 14 July 2018 new exhibition, The Heart of the Matter, will open at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) and Centrespace Gallery in Bristol. Merging art and medicine to reflect on the human heart with artworks inspired by patients with congenital heart conditions, their families and clinicians, this exhibition invites the public to…
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,…
The Heart of the Matter exhibition brings together art and medicine to reflect on the human heart “I feel like I am holding snow in my hands” Mother of a 3-month old baby on seeing her child’s heart as a 3D model Through artworks inspired by patients born with heart conditions, their families and clinicians,…
Ben / Leeds Duet is coming to a close. 368 individual questions, shared with a 1,000+ people across two continents and over 23,000+ messages exchanged over the course of a year. It began over two years ago and was the result of a lot of iterations, research and back and forths between our studios in…
Manchester, Wednesday 21 (Whitworth Gallery) to Thursday 22 (The Bright Building) March 2018 futuresessions.org As computing dissolves into the everyday, we find ourselves surrounded by millions of connected, intelligent objects. Scattered throughout the city, a bin, lamppost or coffee cup can be a computing device, a sensor or actuator. Invisible agents monitor and influence our…