Author: amydensley
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
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
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
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
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.
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)
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.
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 – …
Fair Creative Economies: Creative Organisation Change Lab
The Creative Organisation Change Lab is a pilot scheme, designed to offer a group of creatives money, time and space to learn about different approaches to creative work and business, …
Immersive Arts: website live!
Immersive Arts is an ambitious three-year programme led by Verity McIntosh, UWE that will support over 200 UK-based artists and organisations to explore the creative potential of virtual, augmented and mixed reality …
Weaving Narratives of Care and Repair in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Teresa Dillon presented Weaving Narratives of Care and Repair in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction at Alliance Graphique Internationale [AGI] Congress at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel …
A New Vision for City Centres
In this brand new report, Elahe Karimnia & Tarek Virani address the innovative ‘meanwhile use’ of urban spaces, a response to the challenges faced by high streets amidst financial austerity and the changing landscape …