Free Online Event – Tradition to Vision: Reimagining Society Through Art & Architecture

Tradition to Vision – Reimagining Society through Art and Architecture 

Thursday 30th October:  16:00-17:30

Hosted by UWE Bristol’s Global Majority Network and the Africa Strategy’s Social and Cultural Engagement strand, we are …

DCRC @ BTF+

BTF+ is where tech, creativity and culture collide, in a city that specialises in all of them.

Check out the activity from DCRC Members below!

6/10/25• Inclusive and Accessible Technology …

Call for Screenworks Practice-As-Research Submissions

We are pleased to announce the call for submission to the latest edition of Screenworks, edited by DCRC Members Amanda Egbe (UWE Bristol) & Amber Mota (UWE Bristol).

Special …

Dancing at the Edge: Container Magazine Retrospective

10th - 10th October, 2025 5:00-7:30

10th October, 17:00 – 19:30Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Bristol, BS1 5TX 

A retrospective of experimental digital art – from video games to music, computer viruses to documentaries – …

DCRC Director Tom Abba was invited to host a workshop as part of VoidSpace Live in London on June 7th. VoidSpace – an international community of immersive makers, curators and …

MIX 2025: Writing with Technologies

2nd - 2nd July, 2025

Now in its eighth year, Bath Spa University’s MIX has established itself as an innovative forum for the discussion and exploration of writing and technology, bringing together researchers, writers, technologists …

Ritual Virtual: Inside the sacred rites

3rd - 4th July, 2025

An immersive theatre experience by the Duvet Brothers.

UWE Bristol, Frenchay Campus, Bristol, Multiple showings

For around two thousand years in ancient Greece annual initiations called the Eleusinian Mysteries were performed. Dedicated …

Lunchtime Talk: Small Anthropology Methodology and Researching the Home

13th - 13th June, 2025 1:00-2:00

In this talk, DCRC member, Professor Shawn Sobers, explores why Small Anthropology is a powerful and necessary methodology for interdisciplinary research.

Join us in person at Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, Bristol, or online …

Spike Island Open Studios 2025

2nd - 4th May, 2025

Friday 2 May 18:00 – 21:00, Saturday 3 May 11:00 – 17:00, Sunday 4 May 11:00 – 17:00.

Coming up this weekend – Bristol’s Spike Island – one of the UK’s …

The Body is Along for the Ride: constructing extended reality stories.

23rd - 23rd May, 2025 5:30-7:00

The Digital Cultures Research Centre invites you to join us for a public lecture by Nonny de la Peña facilitated by Professor Mandy Rose.

Watershed, Bristol.

Nonny de la Peña, PhD, …

Verity McIntosh & Catherine Allen | We’re All in This Together: Safety, Policy and the Translation of Human Rights into Multi-Person Virtual Environments

As immersive technologies and spatial computing paradigms move into the mainstream, public and political interest in the ‘metaverse’ is growing.

For many, virtual spaces offer an exciting view of the future, …

The Big Thing (Immersive Arts)

9th - 11th July, 2025

Bradford UK City of Culture 2025

The Big Thing is our annual gathering, where the immersive art community—at any stage in their journey—can come to connect, spark new ideas, and push …

New from Container

Computing in 2025: Musician artist and game developer Jazz Mickle composes a reflection on contemporary computing for Container Magazine.

Listen Here

The Benefits Panopticon: Amid the UK government’s proposed intensification of …

Playful Storytelling with what3words

DCRC member Dr. Jack Lowe has just launched a new game, Pin the Tale, in early access to the public.  

Pin the Tale is an online, map-based …

Immersive Arts: Over 80 UK projects receive nearly £1.2 in first funding round  

Almost £1.2 million has been allocated to 83 artist-led projects across the UK, including several in the Bristol and South West region, in the first round of Immersive Arts funding – …