Author: amydensley
Games engines: Optimising VFX, shaping visual media

From experimental productions Research Fellow, Tom Livingstone:
With experimental work with emerging production technologies such as Game Engines, Virtual Production and In Camera VFX gathering momentum at The Bridge and in Immersive …
Beyond the ‘god-trick’ – Multisensory storytelling and documentary epistemology

Mandy Rose and Tom Livingstone have published a number of outputs reflecting research they’re conducting within the UKRI My World project. This blog post reflects a developing engagement with Multisensory Storytelling, and a recent …
Roads to Withered Hill – Immersive Audio

DCRC Director, Tom Abba, has recently worked alongside David Barnett and the Canelo team to produce an immersive audio experience like no other – one that transports you to Withered Hill …
Tarek Virani talks with Anna B. Sexton about Everyday Creativity (Podcast)
Anna B. Sexton talks with Tarek Virani about cultural networks, staying in creative connection with ourselves through our passions for music, making, social activism and localism. They talk about the …
I am Echoborg returns to Berlin

I am Echoborg is being performed twice at the Spy on Me #5 festival at the HAU theatre, Berlin on 19th October. This fifth iteration of the theatre festival is focussed …
Kinship Wayfinder

As part of the MyWorld: More than AI Sandbox, six teams were chosen to explore what AI might achieve when considered with other disciplines – both commercially, creatively and ethically.
DCRC …
Cultures of AI Podcast: Higher Education

In the fifth and final episode of the mini-series, Samborne speaks to three guests who are all involved in the higher education sector, but in different ways.
Frances Patrick was a …
Sights and Sounds of Alternative Technologies: A Just Transition – Project Blog

Alternative Technologies: A Just Transition was a co-produced enquiry between Pervasive Media Studio and the Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC), which sought to integrate our previous work looking at responsible and inclusive …
Patterns in Practice Podcast: Cultures of AI

Patterns in Practice is an AHRC funded project that is exploring how practitioners’ beliefs, values and feelings interact to shape how they engage with and in data mining and machine …
New Volume Published: Global Creative Ecosystems – A critical understanding of sustainable creative and cultural production

We are pleased to share that Associate Professor of Creative Industries, Tarek Virani, has published Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production as part of the …
Grounding Technologies Report

In 2023, Grounding Technologies brought together 6 diverse teams from across the West of England to explore how creative technology can bolster place-based, community-led climate action. Read our report on …
Bristol and Bath Screen Summit 2023

In November 2023, leading filmmakers, producers and writers joined production companies, commissioners, and politicians at the second Bristol and Bath Screen Summit at Arnolfini to celebrate the rise of the screen …
Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Final Report

In October 2023, The Bristol+Bath Creative R+D team released their final report: Hopeful Futures for Creative Innovation. It is for anyone with an interest in thinking differently about how to …
Game Engines: Adoption and Adaptation

On 16th October 2023, we held a lively roundtable discussion exploring the impact of game engine technology on the ways in which media is made and experienced.
Hosted by the DCRC …
Urban Hosts’ 10th Anniversary

Urban Hosts is a practice-centred, public programme that provokes and promotes alternatives, to how we currently govern and live in cities. For the last 10 years the programme has been …