Meet Container: the new online magazine about creative technology
Issue 1 explores explores the fight for data rights, the future of performance post-pandemic, the mainstreaming of digital activism and queer perspectives on VR.
Bristol Arts Channel: reaching local audience through lockdown
As new themes and conversations emerge from the Programme's cohorts, we’re taking the opportunity to showcase some of their thoughts. This month we’re exploring physical/digital event hybridity, hearing how the Bristol Arts Channel brought a diverse programme of in-person cultural content online.
Meet the Expanded Performance cohort
The Expanded Performance Pathfinder will explore the concept of liveness and togetherness in the context of current innovations in technology. Looking across the theatre and live music sectors, our research and development will consider how shows are made and marketed to how they are captured and distributed. We are delighted to announce our Expanded Performance cohort of Fellows and Industry Partners who each bring unique research questions, and will be working together to explore the challenges and opportunities around the theme for the next 11 months.
Amplified Publishing
We live in a world where everyone with access to technology can publish. From YouTubers to Instagram influencers, gamers watching each other play online and writers self-publishing, content is everywhere. The Covid-19 crisis has delivered rapid change and the proliferation of new kinds of content. Amplified Publishing will build on the cluster's strength in publishing innovation and enable us to ask big questions: What does 'publishing' mean in the 21st Century?
Digital Placemaking Prototypes
The Digital Placemaking R&D Production call asked for ideas which explore questions of belonging, safety, hope and power in public spaces. We are pleased to announce the funded prototype projects are NARratives, POPMAP, Everything is Music and Stupid Cities.
Bristol+Bath Creative R+D is a new, £6.8 million collaboration to take the Bristol and Bath cluster to the next level by forging connections, sharing knowledge and creating new opportunities.
This first-of-a-kind collaboration between the region’s four universities - UWE Bristol, Bath Spa, the University of Bath and the University of Bristol - and digital creativity centre Watershed, intends to break down the doors, connecting the worlds of university research and creative business to collectively imagine and develop the future of the creative industries.
Take Part
There are many opportunities to take part in our programmes through fellowships, R+D funding, our events programme and much more.
Pathfinders
Pathfinders are themed creative R+D projects designed to lead the Bristol + Bath cluster into the future, engage with emergent technologies and develop a diverse new talent base. There will be 5 Pathfinders from 2019 until 2023.
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Digital Placemaking
Focusing on emergent technologies, Digital Placemaking advances the use of digital technology to enhance and deepen our relationship to physical places.
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Expanded Performance
Expanded Performance explores the concept of liveness and togetherness in the context of current innovations in technology across the cluster’s twin strengths of theatre and live music.
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Amplified Publishing
Building on the cluster's strength in publishing innovation, Amplified Publishing explores future models of content creation, discovery and distribution.
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Creative Ecologies
The Creative Ecologies Pathfinder is a new programme of research and experimentation for Bristol+Bath Creative R+D. Across 2021 and 2022, we’ll be exploring creativity as a networked, connected practice, not something that happens in isolation in studios, offices, or labs.
Articles
16.10.20 Expanded Performance
The Fullest Circle
by Claire Skelcey, Raucous
Claire Skelcey tracks her journey as a marketing manager for theatre, arts and culture over the years, coming full circle to her time with the Expanded Performance cohort.
09.10.20 Expanded Performance
From balloons to vibro-haptic furniture
by Lloyd Coleman
Associate Music Director of The Paraorchestra investigates how can we further enhance a live music experience for D/deaf audiences.
