Artist in residence – Sheila Ghelani

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Long time Blast Theory collaborator and associate artist Sheila Ghelani is in residence with us again for the beginning of June. Originally trained as a dancer Sheila creates solo and collaborative work which spans Live Art / Performance practice. Her work has been described as ‘a mash up of ‘stuff’ – of high art, low… Read more »

Act Otherwise report online

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Emilie Giles has done a fantastic write up of the Act Otherwise seminar held at 20 Wellington Road in March. “Act Otherwise” is part of the PARN project (Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives) which designs, develops, creates, exhibits and analyses contemporary forms for storytelling in a pan-European context. PARN as well as “Act Otherwise” is… Read more »

Fabrica Voices of the Sea short film

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Fabrica have put together a short gallery film about two new commissions and a residency that explore our rich history and deep connection with the sea, both showing at Fabrica until the end of May. I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another by The Otolith Group, 14 April – 27 May, 2012 Sea… Read more »

A Machine To See With at PAZZ Festival 2012

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We are pelased to announce that we are presenting the German premiere of A Machine To See With as part of PAZZ 2012, Festival of Performing Arts in Oldenburg, Germany. It will run between 21st and 29th April between 4pm and 7pm. If you want to take part you will need to book a slot… Read more »

Artist in residence – Tyler Stefanich

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Tyler Stefanich is a Minnesota artist whose work draws on memory and unconscious habits of interpretation, using analog/digital-technologies to dislodge the viewer’s sense of normalcy. His residency will focus on developing a series of projects that explore the internet as a collective memory, constructing real-time visualizations using HTML5 and other related emerging technologies. His main… Read more »

New volunteer Julian Hyde

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We’re pleased to welcome Julian Hyde who will be volunteering with us for 3 months until the end of June this year. Julian is from Saint Paul Minnesota and has a background in large scale pervasive games having worked on and devised events in and around Minneapolis for various organisations as well as running the… Read more »

Artist in residence – Arjan Dhupia

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Arjan Dhupia will be in residence at 20 Wellington Road for the month of March, he is a PhD Fellow of Experimental Game Design and Development at Portsmouth University, where he develops a critical vocabulary for designing and analyzing locative narratives in location-based games. His work at 20 Wellington Road will focus on the development of… Read more »

Play and the City at London Transport Museum

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Executive Producer Julianne Pierce is presenting on Blast Theory’s work at Play and the City. Hosted by onedotzero, this is an educational event looking at how mobile devices are being used by artists and gamers to subvert the city. Julianne is speaking together with Alex Fleetwood from Hide and Seek. Date: Friday 16 March 2012… Read more »

Ju Row Farr talking at Artist Story, Fabrica

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Ju Row Farr will give a presentation on the development of Blast Theory and an insight into their practice on Thursday 26 April 7.00-8.00pm If you’d like to go along please book by emailing Caitlin at Fabrica. [email protected] or call 01273 778646

Julianne Pierce moving on

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We are sad to announce that Julianne Pierce, Executive Producer Extraordinaire is leaving us for pastures new. Jules will be taking a post as Executive Director of the Australian Dance Theatre in her hometown of Adelaide beginning in April this year. Julianne joined Blast Theory in 2007 and has become a valued member of the… Read more »

Blast Theory are recruiting a Business Director

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A great opportunity to lead the business strategy of Blast Theory, alongside the newly created post of Director. The Business Director will drive the company in finance, new revenue streams and marketing. You will also have a key role in partnerships, collaboration and project delivery. Blast Theory is a pioneering artist group creating games, immersive… Read more »

Julianne Pierce at Creativity and Business

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Blast Theory’s Executive Producer Julianne Pierce is speaking at Creativity and business: Connectivity, Values and Interventions at the British Library on 12th March. This one days conference organised by Culture Capital Exchange will present a diverse and provocative range of keynotes, panel discussions, case studies and interventions that will explore questions such as: “How does… Read more »

Matt Adams at TEDxObserver

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Blast Theory artist Matt Adams will be in conversation at Lighthouse with Director Honor Harger on Saturday 10th March. The talk is part of the nationwide TEDxObserver simulcast event taking place from 09:00-18:00. The event will be followed by a drinks reception at Lighthouse, from 18:00-20:00. For further details click here.

Ju Row Farr interviewed

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Sandra Carluccio is an emerging artist from Brisbane, and a former volunteer here at Blast Theory, during her time with us she interviewed Ju Row Farr on a number of subjects and has posted the interview to her blog.

BLAST THEORY BLESS PRACTICE video

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Spacex Gallery in Exeter have added a video to their Vimeo channel of our exihibion BLAST THEORY BLESS PRACTICE. Filmed by Rob Darch and edited by Patrick Cullum. Thanks to all at Spacex Gallery. Watch it here.

Matt Adams on Ghostwriter at RAMM

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Matt Adams will give a guided tour of Blast Theory’s newest work ‘Ghostwriter’ on 24th February. Commissioned by Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter, ‘Ghostwriter’ is an interactive audio tour for mobile phones. The presentation will be from 1pm-2pm and is free entry. www.rammuseum.org.uk

a-n Magazine review

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The most recent issue of a-n Magazine includes a review of Blast Theory’s current works showing in Exeter. Follow the link to the article by Gabrielle Hoad. www.a-n.co.uk

BLAST THEORY BLESS PRACTICE events

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Spacex are running a comprehensive education programme alongside the BLAST THEORY BLESS PRACTICE exhibition with events for all ages. Gallery Talk 2 February 2012 6.00pm Join Gabriella Giannachi, Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter and co-author of Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated (2011) and Performing Mixed Reality… Read more »

Ju Row Farr talk at Camberwell College of Art and Design

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(You) Consume (You) Use (You) Reject Key Ideas 2011/2012 a series of one day symposiums by Camberwell College of Art and Design – UAL (You) Use – 1st February Speakers – Ju Row Farr, Dr Bernard Rieger and Dr Adam Drazin. Workshop leaders – Fabiane Lee-Perrella and Michael Hurley

Working with Contemporary Art education day

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Helen Davies from the Arnolfini will present an education day at Spacex, Exeter. Find out about learning programmes in galleries and discuss examples of youth led projects developed at Arnolfini. This event will explore how a gallery educator could approach the Blast Theory exhibition at Spacex. Monday 30 January 6pm-8pm Spacex, Exeter Free, booking essential… Read more »

20th Anniversary Survey Exhibition

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Spacex Gallery in Exeter is presenting BLAST THEORY BLESS PRACTICE, a survey exhibition of Blast Theory’s work over the last 20 years. Including archival materials and video from Stampede (1994), Kidnap (1998), Desert Rain (1999), Can You See Me Now? (2003) and A Machine To See With (2010). The exhibition runs until 18th February at… Read more »

Ghostwriter at RAMM

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Blast Theory’s newest commission Ghostwriter is now open at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter. Blast Theory has been working with curator Vivienne Gaskin for this commission which is part of the New Expressions Programme. Ghostwriter is an audio tour for mobile phones. To take part you call in and a woman acts… Read more »

New intern, Hannah Williams Walton

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Hannah Williams Walton has just graduated from Drama at UWE, Bristol. Her dissertation title ‘Technology; Theatres, Plays and Performance’ explored some of Blast Theory’s previous work, and sparked her interest with the company. This year she also joins the Royal Court’s Young Writers Program.Hannah joined Blast Theory at the beginning of January and will be… Read more »

Talk at Chelsea College of Art 7th December

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Matt will present Blast Theory’s recent research into low cost outside broadcasting and video streaming as part of a lecture at Chelsea College of Art in London.

Spacex Artist Talk 10th December

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Blast Theory artists will be giving a talk at the opening of BLAST THEORY BLESS PRACTICE 20th survey exhibition at 4pm on Saturday 10th December. Spacex Gallery, 45 Preston St, Exeter, EX1 1DF. Free entry, for further details visit www.spacex.org.uk

Ju Row Farr taking part in Cinematic City Panel

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A special panel discussion examining new uses of film in the city. This hour-long symposium showcases cutting edge performance work, and will explore how artists and film makers are creating new relationships between cinema and the urban space. Ju Row Farr is taking part and will be discussing Blast Theory’s recent Brighton Digital Festival piece,… Read more »

A Machine To See With in Brighton Digital Festival

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We are delighted that A Machine To See With is featured in the inaugural Brighton Digital Festival in September. A new festival that aims to cement Brighton’s status as a leading digital destination and build bridges between digital industries and arts communities. Presented in association with Lighthouse and Dome Brighton, A Machine To See With… Read more »

Gaming talk at the Whitechapel on 17th November

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The first in a new series of lectures for young people aged 14 – 19 exploring art and technology sees Blast Theory talk alongside games company International Hobo at Whitehapel Art Gallery, 17th November.

A Machine To See With in Taipei

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A Machine To See With is included in the 6th Digital Art Festival Taipei (DAF06) running from 11th-20th November and will be presented in English and Taiwanese. Blast Theory artists Nick Tandavanitj and Matt Adams are both travelling to Taipei and will present Artists Talks during the festival. The presentation in Taipei is supported by… Read more »

Arts Council Digital Reference Group

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Ju Row Farr has joined the Arts Council England’s Digital and Broadcasting External Advisory Group.

Presentation at Click and Create Webinar

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Nick Tandavanitj will be presenting Blast Theory’s work as part of the Click and Create Taster Webinar, organised by Creative Junction with Chalfonts Community College, Adobe and the National Society for Education in Art and Design. Friday 21st October 11am – 12.15pm FREE Email Vicky Hope-Walker by Thursday 20th at 5pm to attend online.

Ivy4Evr nominated for BIMA Award

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Our SMS project for young people Ivy4Evr has been nominated for a BIMA (British Interactive Media Association) Award in the Arts and Culture category. The pilot episode was commissioned by Channel 4 Education last year, with a live trial in October 2010. Ivy4Evr was developed by Blast Theory with writer Tony White with SMS engine… Read more »

Ulrike and Eamon Compliant German premiere

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Ulrike and Eamon Compliant will have its German premiere at the 8th Festival ‘Politik im Freien Theater’ (Politics in Independent Theatre) from October 28th-31st in Dresden. It is included in a special section of the programme URBAN MUTATIONS curated by Dietmar Lupfer, Director of Muffatwerk Munich.

Launch of Performing Mixed Reality book

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Performing Mixed Reality is a new MIT Press publication edited by Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi. The book draws on a number of works that have been developed at the University of Nottingham’s Mixed Reality Laboratory, describing collaborations with artists (most notably Blast Theory) that have gradually evolved a distinctive interdisciplinary approach to combining practice… Read more »

Living with the Panopticon forum at Dublin Contemporary

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Executive Producer Julianne Pierce is speaking at a forum on Thursday 13th October as part of Dublin Contemporary. Taking the form of a conversation led by artist Conor McGarrigle, Living with the Panopticon: Acts of Non-compliance in the Digital World asks how technology might be contested, shaped and reinvented in ways which enhance our everyday… Read more »

Matt speaking at Improving Reality

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As part of Brighton Digital Festival the Lighthouse is presenting a conference examining artists’, designers’ and filmmakers’ attempts to improve reality on 23rd September. Matt will use A Machine To See With as an example of overlaying new fictions onto the chaotic and entropic space of the city.

Games Jam at the Science Museum

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Matt is speaking and mentoring at the Science Museum’s Live Gaming festival as part of the Games Jam on 30th September from 10.00 – 18.00. Attendees will have the opportunity to work with curators and live gamers from Hide & Seek, Coney and Blast Theory to deliver experiential games over the weekend of 1 &… Read more »

Artist in residence – Sugar Beast Circus

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Sugar Beast Circus are a collective of artists, performers and designers with a shared vision to create work that broadens the scope of interdisciplinary work and to break down the barrier between theatre, gallery and big-top. During their residency they will look at how accelerometer devices can create an interactive relationship between a performer’s extreme… Read more »

Rider Spoke at ANTI Festival Finland

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Rider Spoke has been invited to ANTI Festival in Kuopio (Finland), the world’s only contemporary art festival presenting solely site-specific works. The festival has an international reputation as a meeting place for artists and audiences fascinated by how contemporary art might respond to the spaces and places of everyday life. The Artistic Directors of the… Read more »

Intern Sandra Carluccio

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Blast Theory is pleased to welcome our current intern Sandra Carluccio. Based in Brisbane, Australia Sandra is as an emerging independent performance artist and studying a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Honours) with a major in Drama at QUT (Queensland University of Technology). Sandra joined us in August and will stay through to the end of… Read more »

A Machine To See With in Edinburgh

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Have you ever wanted to rob a bank? Following sell out US seasons at Sundance Film Festival and Walker Art Centre, A Machine To See With now makes its UK premiere at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Running from August 24th-28th at St Georges West, tickets £12/£10 with bookings every 15 minutes from 2pm-7pm through the Fringe… Read more »

Intern applications deadline 30th September

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The Blast Theory intern programme is an opportunity for recent graduates and those embarking on a career in the arts to have first-hand experience of working with an artists company. Our programme covers a wide range of activity including office administration, project management, database management, touring, archiving, marketing and publicity. At times you will also… Read more »

NESTA R&D Fund Digital Day

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Blast Theory’s Executive Producer, Julianne Pierce will present a case study on Ivy4Evr at The Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture: Digital Day at Brighton Dome on Wednesday 10th August. The Digital days aim to share ideas and approaches to digital technologies for the arts and cultural sectors, and to present the Digital R&D… Read more »

Artist in residence Dan Dixon

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Dan Dixon is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England currently working on a PhD titled Playing with Reality: An Aesthetic Framework for Understanding Pervasive Games. Dan says, The PhD I am working towards investigates the space between games, the physical world and the transformative nature of technology. My main aims… Read more »

Soft Message at Skibbereen Arts Festival

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Soft Message has been included in the Travelling Sounds Library produced by Forest Fringe and will be playing at The Time Traveller’s Bookshop, Bridge Street, Skibbereen between 23rd and 30th July. More details here.

A Machine To See With in Banff

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A Machine To See With, the Locative Cinema Commission from Banff New Media Institute, Sundance Film Festival and 01 San Jose Biennial is being presented at the Banff Summer Festival from July 19-23. More information here

Commission for Red Cross Museum in Geneva

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We’ve received our largest ever commission to create a game for 25 players for the Red Cross Museum in Geneva. The newly refurbished museum will open in 2012. More details to follow.

Artist in residence – Sarah Waterson

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Sarah Waterson has been practicing and exhibiting as a new media artist for the past twenty years. These works include electronic installations, collaborations with performers, video and audio work, generative and software based artworks, VR environments and data visualisations / ecologies. Recent works include: Laika’s Derive, 33ºSouth – a three-channel audio-visual installation that juxtaposes the… Read more »

Arts Council Culture Club

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Blast Theory Executive Producer Julianne Pierce will be speaking on Blast Theory and the creative economy at the third ACE Culture Club on 29th June. Culture Club is a fun and non-intimidating introduction for Arts Council staff to the world of arts policy and research. Also speaking is Tom Fleming from Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy.

Urlike and Eamon Compliant nominated for Sheffield Doc/Fest Innovation Award

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Following the UK premiere at NEAT Festival in Nottingham, Ulrike and Eamon Compliant tours to Sheffield in June 2011 as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest. We are delighted that Ulrike and Eamon Compliant is included in one of the worlds’ foremost documentary film festivals and in addition has been shortlisted for the Sheffield Doc/Fest Innovation Award…. Read more »

Ulrike and Eamon Compliant UK premiere in Nottingham

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In May/June 2011 Nottingham Playhouse present NEAT, the inaugural Nottingham European Arts and Theatre Festival. Blast Theory is delighted that Ulrike and Eamon Compliant will have its UK premiere as part of the festival. Commissioned by De La Warr Pavilion for the 2009 Venice Biennale, Ulrike and Eamon Compliant is a walking work with mobile… Read more »

Fixing Point at Snape Maltings

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Blast Theory has received a new commission to develop a site specific audio work for Faster Than Sound at Snape Maltings in collaboration with musician Chris Clark. Suffolk is a quintessential county of English peace and restraint. However the area also has a strong military history: bases, bunkers and research installations surround Snape. Drawing on… Read more »

Executive Producer Julianne Pierce in Making Future Narrative

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Making Future Narrative is a new initiative by Broadway Media Arts that will focus on experimentation, story-telling and ways of engaging audiences. The programme will involve talks, debates and a commissioning strand. The first event is being held at Lincoln Performing Arts Centre on Thursday 2nd June from 6 – 8.30PM. Guest speakers are Brendan… Read more »

20 Wellington Road Residency Programme 2012

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Blast Theory is currently calling for applications for the 20 Wellington Road Residency Programme for 2012. Expressions of interest are invited from individuals working in the following fields: – Pervasive & location based gaming & interactive media – Mobile & portable devices in cultural & artistic practice – Games design and theory – Interdisciplinary and… Read more »

Blast Theory taking part in HOUSE Festival

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We will be running a series of events from our studios in Portslade this May as part of HOUSE Festival. Doors will be open between 12.00 and 18.00 on all 4 weekends of the festival (May 7th, 8th, 14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd, 28th & 29th) and we will be presenting Soft Message, Riders Have Spoken… Read more »

A Machine To See With at Walker Arts Centre

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Blast Theory’s newest work A Machine To See With is being presented at Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis between the 15th and 19th April. A Machine To See With is a work for pedestrians and their mobile phones and is the inaugural ‘locative cinema’ commission awarded in 2009 by partners ZER01: The Art & Technology Network,… Read more »

Matt Adams talk at The Sorbonne

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Matt Adams will be taking part in the symposium Fiction, Immersion and Virtual Worlds at The Sorbonne, Paris between 27th and 28th April.

Blast Theory receive NPO funding

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Blast Theory will become a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England from 2012/13. Having been supported as a Regularly Funded Organisation, Blast Theory is pleased to announce an increase from 10/11 level of £113,788 to £140,000 per annum for the period 12/13 – 14/15. The ongoing funding will assist Blast Theory to realise new… Read more »

SHARE conference, Serbia

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Blast Theory’s Executive Producer Julianne Pierce will give a keynote at the SHARE conference in Serbia, being held from April 7th – 9th. SHARE Conference is a new kind of festival created by the State of Exit Foundation. For the first time in the region, a host of internationally acclaimed internet and social activism experts,… Read more »

Soft Message at Camden People’s Theatre

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Soft Message has been included in the Travelling Sounds Library produced by Forest Fringe and will be playing at Camden People’s Theatre until 27th March.  

Artist in residence – Tommaso Dolcetta

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Tommaso Dolcetta is studying for a PhD in anthropology/performance art at Goldsmiths on pervasive games, as spaces of creativity and experimentation in social/cultural interaction. He is in residence at 20 Wellington Road until the end of May. During the residency he will work on the development or a pervasive game based around players constructing situations… Read more »

Nick Tandavanitj taking part in Brighton University ‘Bar’ talks

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Students currently studying their scond year of Critical Fine Art course are setting up a bar in the gallery of Brighton University on Grand Parade and have invited a number of artists to come and give informal talks on their work for the week of 14th to 21st February. Blast Theory artist Nick Tandavanitj will… Read more »

Matt Adams talking at The Story

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Blast Theory artist Matt Adams is taking part in The Story at The Conway Hall, London on Friday 18th February. The Story will be a celebration of everything that is wonderful, inspiring and awesome about stories, in whatever medium possible. We’re hoping to have stories that are written, spoken, played, described, enacted, whispered, projected, orchestrated,… Read more »

Blast Theory welcomes new Board members

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Blast Theory is extremely pleased to welcome new Board members Julien Boast and Verity Slater. Julien Boast is an arts leader from the private and public cultural sector. From 2002-2010, he worked for the international company, the Ambassador Theatre Group, (ATG), initially as Chief Executive of the award winning Theatre Royal Brighton. In 2009, he… Read more »

Rider Spoke in Cornwall

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A season of Rider Spoke will be presented by University College Falmouth (incorporating Dartington College of Arts) on March 4th, 5th and 6th. The venue is The Performance Centre, University College Falmouth, Temough, Penryn and session times are 3pm – 7pm daily (session times every 15 minutes). Tickets prices are £12.50 full/ £9.50 concessions includes… Read more »

Blast Theory supporting South East artists

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For the last two years Blast Theory artists have provided support and mentoring to emerging Brighton based artists company Me and The Machine. In February/March this continues with Blast Theory providing studio space to Me and The Machine to undertake development work. www.meandthemachine.co.uk

A Machine To See With at Sundance reviews

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We’ve just got back from presenting A Machine To See With at Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontiers Programme. We got some great feedback from everyone who took part and here is a selection of reviews of the piece: Guardian Games blog by Keith Stuart New York Magazine by Kyle Buchanan Sundance… Read more »

Artists in residence – Signal to Noise

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“Signal to Noise” is the moniker of Brighton based artists Oliver Wilshen and Niall Quinn. They will be in residence at 20 Wellington Road for the month of February 2011. Our current practice investigates the creative potential that obsolete media technologies have to offer, specifically the magnetic audiotape format. The residency will see further development… Read more »

Volume Magazine Blog Playmakers Film

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Playmakers is a groundbreaking documentary about the emerging phenomenon of Pervasive games. The film features those at the forefront of the pervasive games movement, it includes games designers such as Blast Theory’s Matt Adams and Claire Reddington from the Pervasive Media Studio alongside technology heavyweights such as Howard Rheingold and anthropologist Mike Wesch.

Riders Have Spoken at the British Library

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Riders Have Spoken is currently included in Growing Knowledge: The Evolution of Research exhibition at the British Library. The work is a playful graphic and audio archive of recordings from Rider Spoke, created by Blast Theory with designer Jon Sutton. Riders Have Spoken has been developed by Blast Theory with the support of Horizon Digital… Read more »

Workshop in Netherlands

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Matt Adams will lead a two day workshop on games design for Patching Zone on 27-28th January as part of the Digital Art Lab project.

A Machine To See With at Sundance Film Festival

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Blast Theory’s newest work A Machine To See With is included in the New Frontier Programme of the Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah from January 20th – 30th. A Machine To See With is a work for pedestrians and their mobile phones and is the inaugural ‘locative cinema’ commission awarded in 2009 by partners… Read more »

Smile For London

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A new 20 second video work titled Car Advert will premiere on 17th January as part of the Smile for London project. An initiative by Meme Partnership commissioning works for the London Underground. www.smileforlondon.com

2011 Creative Producers Development Programme 2011

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Blast Theory Executive Producer Julianne Pierce has been selected for the Creative Producers Development Programme. Co-ordinated by iShed, Arts Council England and The interdisciplinary Digital Cultures Research Centre, the programme will bring together 10 producers working across art-forms to attend SXSW (South by Southwest) music, film, and interactive conference in Austin, Texas in March followed… Read more »

Crossover Channel 4 Convergence

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Blast Theory artist Matt Adams is participating in the Channel 4 Convergence Lab on January 25th and 26th. The Lab is for independent producers and freelancers interested to work with Channel 4 in devising, developing and producing cross-platform projects for the TV, web and mobile platforms.

New Intern Emilie Giles

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Blast Theory welcomes our latest intern Emilie Giles. Emilie completed an MA Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice at Goldsmiths in 2010. She is working with us on projects including A Machine To See With and the Rider Spoke Archive.

Surveillance seminar in Copenhagen

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David Rokeby, Lev Manovich, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Matt Fuller and Sean Cubitt will all be speaking alongside Matt Adams at a seminar on “Invisibility and Unawareness: Ethico-Political Implications of Embeddedness and the Culture of Surveillance” at the Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen on 11th November.

Find us on Twitter

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Blast Theory is gradually building up our Twitter following, we’re up to 513. You can find us here. You can also find us on the Artsadmin list ‘Companies that are Great’ alongside Forced Entertainment, Improbable, Complicite and more.

Artist in Residence – Kate Richards

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Sydney-based artist and producer Kate Richards is in residence from 23rd November – 20th December. Kate’s core artistic research interest is in creating affective, immersive spaces. During her residency period Kate is exploring how to engage audiences in a variety of experiences and interactions. http://katerichards.net/

Soft Message at Inbetween Time

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The Inbetween Time Festival of Live Art and Intrigue returns across the streets, sites and art spaces of Bristol from 1 Dec. Blast Theory’s 2006 audio work Soft Message is included in the programme and plays on Thursday 2nd December for one session only, from 4.30pm – 5pm at the Cube Cinema. Tickets are £6… Read more »

Studio space available at 20 Wellington Road

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One newly refurbished studio space is currently available for rent at the Blast Theory Building in Portslade, Brighton. We are looking for tenants who work in similar fields to Blast Theory: • Small companies or start up businesses working in mobile technologies or games • Artists working with digital media • Live Artists working in… Read more »

Preview for Sundance Film Festival

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An interview with Matt Adams about A Machine To See With which will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah in January 2011. cs.entertainmentcareers.net/

Beyond Cinema: Moving Image Informatics

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Julianne Pierce is a guest speaker at the Beyond Cinema: Moving Image Informatics conference on Saturday 13 November 2010. The conference will be held at Southampton Solent University and is organised in conjunction with the The Millais Gallery. With particular reference to aesthetics, critical content and the audience/participant of post-cinematic practice, this symposium aims to… Read more »

Sheffield Doc Fest Innovation Award

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Blast Theory’s Executive Producer Julianne Pierce is a member of the jury for the 2010 Sheffield Innovation Jury Award. The award is for a documentary from the Doc/Fest programme that exhibits originality in approach to form and radical manifestations in the delivery of its story.

Matt Adams talk at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

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The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents the third Do It! evening on November 18, Play It!, which revolves around the latest forms of interactive media art. During ‘Play it!’ there will be experiments with and reflections on the latest forms of interactive media art: from artistic games to internet art; from experiments with augmented reality for… Read more »

Artist in residence – Teemu Kivikangas

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Teemu Kivikangas is a cross-media artist and designer based in Helsinki, Finland working in experimental cinema, VJing, interactive installations, photography and games design. Teemu has shown work in contemporary art festivals including PixelACHE 2003 in New York and Montreal, ISEA 2004 in Helsinki and Ars Electronica 2006 in Linz, Austria. Teemu will be in residence… Read more »

arte.mov Brazil

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A selection of Blast Theory video and audio works are included in The International Festival of Mobile Art Vivo arte.mov from 3rd – 7th November in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Rider Spoke in Italy

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Rider Spoke is being presented in the es.terni festival in Umbria, Italy from 29th September – 2nd October with English and Italian versions To download a programme please click here.