I spent about 7 hours yesterday exploring Milton Keynes with artist and mythographer Phil Smith. We set out to orient ourselves in the city in preparation for our Digitalis project, working with the Libraries network the... Read more
On 17 January we held the first Collider Conversation of the year, bringing 'diversity' forward, at Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester discussing Neurodiversity. Chaired by Susan Jones, published writer and researc... Read more
Threshold Studios are thrilled to announce that Co-Founder and Director Uzma Johal has been awarded an MBE in the 2017 New Year’s Honours List for services to the Digital Economy in the East Midlands. The aw... Read more
I feel a certain Schadenfreude at Assemble's success in winning the Turner prize for contemporary art. It's the furore that it has caused in the contemporary arts establishment that fires me up. The decision tells me tha... Read more
University is over, my education has finished. It’s time to head out into the big wide world and make something of myself. Graduation hasn’t even come round yet and I’m already in a graduate internship, but I donâ€... Read more
The brilliant Ariane Delaunois of Sound Art Radio yet again produced some great coverage of Frequency. Check out this interview Barry gave, discussing Frequency's ethos and vision, current debates surrounding digital cul... Read more
28 participants, two days, three workshop stations. How will the young generation of today cope when thrown into the world of coding and creative tech? “It’s so important to learn the skill of coding because of how m... Read more
Something magic(k)al happens every time I end up in Northampton. Last time it was hanging out with Alan Moore at Robert Godfrey's Lodge Studios where I got lost in a haze of Unearthings and Dodgem Logic. This time round... Read more
So yes, I'm old enough to have been there at the dawning of the cultural revolution that was Punk and all the subsequent kaleidoscopic offshoots that blossomed from that defiant root, planted in the industrial ruins of w... Read more
March 20th offered us a rare chance to experience a partial solar eclipse - did you see it? Only 95% of Totality this time so no dip to darkness, nothing to scare the birds into silence, none of the corona or Baily's Bea... Read more