NetDRIVE Call for Demos and Posters – Autumn Gathering November

Galvanising Collective Action towards Sustainable Computing

The rising carbon emissions of research computing make a significant contribution to global emissions, in particular via the high energy demands of artificial …

The Big Thing 2026 – Immersive Arts’ Annual Event

9th - 11th September, 2026

Wed 9th – Fri 11th September 2026 Llandudno, Wales

The Big Thing is Immersive Arts’ annual gathering, where the immersive art community—at any stage in their journey—can …

DCRC Seminar: Speculative Geographies? Creative, participatory methods for envisioning hopeful, place-based futures.

19th - 19th May, 2026 1:00-2:00

We warmly invite you to the 2025-26 DCRC Seminar Series…a space for unpacking ideas, unlocking imagination and sparking conversations.  

Founded in 2009, the Digital Cultures Research Centre is an open …

Immersive Acts: Disrupting the Frame by Otherwise Narratives (Royal College of Art)

How can immersive experiences and technologies support communities to develop shared practices and shape more just and equitable worlds?

Immersive Acts: Disrupting the Frame by Otherwise Narratives invites contributions that …

DCRC Seminar: Amanda Egbe – Listening Between the Gaps: Fugitive Historiography as Method and Practice

2nd - 2nd December, 2025 1:00-2:00

Listening Between the Gaps: Fugitive Historiography as Method and Practice

In this talk, Amanda Egbe introduces fugitive historiography, a framework developed through her moving-image practice and research into archives, racialised vision, …

Lunchtime Talk: Video Nation – Home Movies of the 90s

7th - 7th November, 2025 1:00-2:00

In this Lunchtime talk, Mandy Rose will revisit the Video Nation project, with a focus on the Shorts that were the best-known output.

Between 1994 and 2000, hundreds of …

BDAS: Between Digital and Physical Worlds

12th - 12th November, 2025 6:00-9:00

📅 Wednesday 12 November 2025 | 🕕 18:00–21:00 | 📍 WatershedBetween Digital and Physical Worlds: artists reimaging reality | UWE Bristol

As part of Being Human Festival, join Verity …

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 …

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 …

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). …

Dancing at the Edge: Container Magazine Retrospective

10th October, 17:00 – 19:30

Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Bristol, BS1 5TX 

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

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 …

MIX 2025: Writing with Technologies

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, …

Ritual Virtual: Inside the sacred rites

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 …

Lunchtime Talk: Small Anthropology Methodology and Researching the Home

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

This event took place in person at Pervasive Media Studio, …