Digital Democracies is dedicated to experimentation, research and development. Here you will be able to find resources and inspirational content from across the cultural sector and beyond.
This space offers a platform for inspiring, engaging, and provocative ideas. It is a way to amplify the voices and ideas of our creative community, and represent a range of perspectives from the many sectors working across technology, public space and the arts.
For the final interview in the series Digital Democracies:Voices, Practices, Stories, Futures, Donna Close and Professor Helen Kennedy are chatting to Catherine Allen about how we can support positive experiences in the metaverse and...
Following on in the series, Digital Democracies: Voices, Practices, Stories, Futures, curated by Donna Close and Prof Helen Kennedy, we're chatting to Nina Salomons, Co-Founder of Anomie XR, about diversity, inclusion and exclusion in...
Following on in the series, Digital Democracies: Voices, Practices, Stories, Futures, curated by Donna Close and Prof Helen Kennedy, is an interview with Verity McIntosh about the metaverse as a new frontier for the internet....
As technology advances around the Metaverse - AR, VR, MR, XR – we need to understand more about mind/ body disconnection and to understand that our actions in these spaces have implications for the people that we are sharing those...
We have commissioned a series of articles, collated by Donna Close and Prof Helen Kennedy, that explores diverse perspectives on the Metaverse through a series of conversations with women working in the immersive technology space....
As part of Digital Democracies Talent Development programme, students from Grimsby Institute of Technology worked with Inkibit Immersive on a Virtual Reality co-commission. The collaborative co-commission, St James in VR, was inspired...
Developed to be a digital extension of the public artworks by the artists, Walk This Way by Annabel McCourt and Adrian Riley bridges the gap between the physical and digital, and tests new ways to involve and animate people in the...
Investing in research and development, and creating a space for new and experimental work to be tested publicly, is crucial for innovation and creativity to thrive. So, we’re pleased to be supporting the development of this new work,...
As part of Industry Week at University of Lincoln in February 2021, Threshold Studios introduced School of Film & Media students to Inkibit Immersive, a female-led creative collective exploring immersive technologies. Supported by...
As part of the WE-Hope project and supported by Digital Democracies, Threshold Studios commissioned artists to work with living testimonies from survivors of conflict, migration and trauma, collected through testimony and interviews...
Reality may never be an inclusive design, but virtual reality can be. In fact, artificial intelligence can never be sentient, if it cannot go mad. Artist, writer, performer and filmmaker, Dolly Sen, infects normal systems with...
As part of Digital Democracies we invited curator and researcher, Laurence Hill, to commission some short pieces of writing on how digital technology and digital thinking have impacted us and our public spaces....
Zizi – Queering the Database by Jake Elwes aims to tackle the lack of representation and diversity in training image datasets of people’s faces used by facial recognition systems. These datasets often have a bias towards...
We reach into software, and it reaches back into us, shaping how we engage with the world. In www.grindruberairbnb.exposed (GUA), artist Jonathan Chomko explores this relationship between user and interface, through a series of...
"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 dismissed it as a space that I’m interested in...
The embodied ‘raced’ self, transposed into online space as avatar carries with it interminable questions related to the nuances of identity, representation and Blackness. Judith Ricketts explores this in her commissioned article for...
Commissioned by Threshold Studios through Digital Democracies, curator and researcher, Laurence Hill has brought together a selection of writers and contributors exploring how we interact with existing digital technologies and how they...
Preparation for Brighton Digital Festival 2021 kicks off with a Town Hall Meeting. Excitingly, this events programme will be complemented by a collaboration with Hull’s ?Freedom Festival? and Lincoln’s ?Frequency Festival? on a new...
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 outlet and a sense of connection, each using digital...
As we adjusted to a post-lockdown world, Threshold’s Creative Director, Samantha Lindley reflected on how COVID could be a catalyst for change in the cultural sector. How can creative organisations adapt their approach to create “an...
