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WE-HOPE CANTASTORIA

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]WE-Hope (2019-2022), is inspired by the first-hand histories of those experiencing, living, and navigating migration and separation. Finding humanity in stories of survival, repeated th... Read more

UNINSTALLING NORMALITY – DOLLY SEN

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Some of us who have been labelled with disabled minds find normality tedious and desperate, and our own experiences belittled and devalued. To use a technological analogy, madness is se... Read more

Digital Democracies Editorial Project

As part of Digital Democracies we invited curator and researcher, Laurence Hill, to commission some short pieces of writing for a blog series about how digital technology and digital thinking have impacted us and our pu... Read more

ZIZI: QUEERING DATASETS AND LATENT SPACES – JAKE ELWES

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A red lip emerges and consumes the frame while a heavy lash crushes into pink and purple textures – these images are visualising the guts of a neural network which have been fed ima... Read more

GRINDR UBER AIRBNB – JONATHAN CHOMKO

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “AN INTERFACE IS NOT JUST A PORTAL FOR ACCESS, BUT A DESIGNED EXTENSION OF THE BODY THAT THEN DESIGNS THE BODY IN REVERSE” RACHEL OSSIP, N+1, 2018 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/... Read more

REIMAGINING VIRTUAL REALITY AS A (SAFE) SPACE OF QUEER JOY – LAURENCE HILL

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In my extensive, but admittedly not exhaustive experience, virtual reality doesn’t quite work as a platform. There are some exceptions but over the past few years I have largely dismi... Read more

SPACE COWGIRL – JUDITH RICKETTS

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The embodied ‘raced’ self, transposed into online space as avatar carries with it interminable questions related to the nuances of identity, representation and Blackness.  So much ... Read more

DIGITAL DEMOCRACIES EDITORIAL PROJECT – LAURENCE HILL

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Commissioned by Threshold Studios through Digital Democracies, curator and researcher, Laurence Hill has brought together a selection of writers and contributors exploring two key quest... Read more

BRIGHTON DIGITAL FESTIVAL – TOWN HALL

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The annual celebration of digital culture that is Brighton Digital Festival celebrates its 10th birthday in 2021. And after a one-year pandemic-related hiatus will be relaunching with a... Read more

COMMISSIONS ARE A HIT AT BRIGHTON FESTIVAL

We are delighted to share that Digital Democracies commissions by Kaleider and Arch468 have been warmly received by audiences and critics alike at the recent Brighton Festival. Both projects provided a creative outle... Read more