In 2009 Blast Theory was awarded the inaugural Locative Cinema Commission by partners ZER01: The Art & Technology Network, Sundance Film Festival‘s New Frontiers Initiative and Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre. A Machine To See With is a work for pedestrians and their mobile phones and puts participants inside a movie as… Read more »

Blast Theory is supporting the Save the Arts campaign to fight against the proposed 25% cuts in government funding of the arts. The campaign is aiming to present a petition of 100,000 signatures to the Government to ensure that the issue is debated in Parliament. A new video animation by artist David Shrigley has been… Read more »

Christian Thompson is an Australian artist, currently living and working in Oxford, United Kingdom. He is the inaugural Charles Perkins Trust Scholar and the first Indigenous Australian to be accepted into Oxford University where he is undertaking his Doctorate of Philosophy in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Fine and Art and Drawing. As… Read more »

AFTERLIVE is an exhibition that focusses on artists’ documentation of live art practice. Blast Theory is showing video documentation of Uncle Roy All Around You and Rider Spoke. Alongside the exhibition is a launch event, including a free daytime event by Norwich-based collective other/other/other, a panel discussion, and an evening programme of live art. Visit… Read more »

Following our most recent residency by Andrea Polli and her partner Chuck Varga we now have our own weather station installed and running here at 20 Wellington Road. The station is part of Andrea’s Hello Weather project and joins a network of weather stations currently active in New York, New Dehli and Zurich. You can… Read more »

Julianne Pierce will be hosting a round table discussion at the Symposium on Talent Development as part of the Edinburgh Festival on 18th and 19th August. The Symposium explores how to generate an ideal environment for artists’ creativity to flourish.

New Mexico based artist Andrea Polli is in residence at 20 Wellington Road for the month of August along with her partner and collaborator Chuck Varga. In her work, global weather and air pollution data are transformed into mesmerising video and sound installations. Many of Polli’s works rely on “sonification”, a process in which data… Read more »

Blast Theory has joined the Centre for Digital Entertainment’s Doctoral Studentship programme; offering a research post for a talented and creative programmer. The post comprises a 3 year placement with Blast Theory to begin in October 2010 with support from the University of Bath and Bournemouth’s Masters programme. Doctoral studentships are fully-funded providing fees, a… Read more »

Our work for Radio 3 called Soft Message will be presented as part of the Travelling Sounds Library by Forest Fringe in Edinburgh. Dates: Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th August.

Originally from Portugal, Teresa is currently based in Singapore where she lectures at an art College and researches on wearable, soft, and portable technologies. During her residency at 20 Wellington Road, she will work on a new project inspired by the British summer and her time spent in windy Brighton. www.banhomaria.net

Blast Theory is currently calling for applications for the 20 Wellington Road Residency Programme for 2011. 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 »

Matt Adams will speak in the Digital Democracy panel as part of LIFT Talks on 24th June from 3.30-5.30pm at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London.

Our work for Radio 3 called Soft Message will be presented by Forest Fringe at the Latitude festival in Suffolk on 15-18th July as part a tour to London, Cardiff, Bristol and Glasgow.

Diego Bonetto is a multimedia artist living and practicing in Sydney and is a key member of artists’ collectives SquatSpace, the Network of UnCollectable Artists (NUCA) and the BigFAGPress. For the past 8 years Diego has been working with WeedyConnection, an environmental art campaign. The project involved an online resource launched in 2006, short documentary… Read more »

Nick Tandavanitj will be talking about Blast Theory’s work as part of an international symposium of practitioners involved in art and science collaborations. The symposium is the inaugural event of the Tsinghua Art and Science Media Lab in Beijing. Date: June 11-12th

Laura-Kate Jennings will be in residence at 20 Welling Road until 4th June. Laura-Kate Jennings is an artist and researcher based in London. Beginning from the everyday her practice-based-research investigates the production of space through an interdisciplinary practice that fuses site, walking, technology and documentation. Seeking a form for performance that challenges our relationship to… Read more »

Blast Theory are running placements for interns at their studios with a deadline for applications twice a year. The placements are for a minimum of one month and a maximum of three months.

With contributions from leading artists, academics and writers in the field, Futures and Pasts is a long weekend of live art at the ICA exploring the diverse pasts and possible futures of live art and performance. Curated by writer, artist and performance maker Tim Etchells with the aid of artist Ant Hampton and Lois Keidan… Read more »

Blast Theory is pleased to invite you to an Artist Talk by the current Artist in Residence at 20 Wellington Road – Natasha Davis. Thursday 27th May, 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm at Blast Theory’s studios 20 Wellington Road, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 1DN. www.natashaproductions.com

Matt Adams will give a workshop and a lecture at the Video/Dance Festival in Jerusalem on May 25th www.visualtheater.co.il

Matt Adams will lead a workshop session entitled Tentative Process, Tacit Knowledge as part of Explorationen 10 at PACT Zollverein in Essen on 11th June.

Natasha Davis will be in residence at 20 Wellington Road until May 28th. Natasha’s solo practice, most recently her solo shows Rupture and Asphyxia, are interdisciplinary, process-led and based around rigorous investigation through research & interpretation of personal histories that tap into universal values & issues. She is interested in the liminal. Her work revolves… Read more »

Blast Theory is pleased to invite you to an Artist Talk by the current Artist in Residence at 20 Wellington Road – Joseph Young. Friday 30th April, 6.30-8.30pm at Blast Theory’s studios 20 Wellington Road, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 1DN. “In this latest piece of research, I will work solo, using field recordings from Portslade, found… Read more »

Joseph Young will be in residence at 20 Wellington Road for a week developing a binaural locative performance work. Founded by Joseph Young in 2007 and inspired by the Milan Futurists and the poetics of the Dada movement, The NeoFuturist Collective is of a group of artists who have come together to celebrate urban noise… Read more »

Julianne Pierce will discuss Blast Theory’s partnerships with HIgher Education at Creative Industries: Collaborating for Innovation organised by SE Media Network on 27th April in Portsmouth.

What does the Digital Economy Act mean for the digital, creative and cultural sectors? Wired Sussex and Lighthouse are teaming up to stage a quick response event reacting to the controversial Digital Economy Act, which the Government passed into Law this April. Matt Adams will be on a panel of speakers including Anthony Lilley (OBE)… Read more »

‘You Get Me‘ is a nominee in the NetArt category of the 14th Annual Webby Awards.

Matt Adams will be presenting a talk on the work of Blast Theory as part of Glug Brighton on Friday 23rd April. To register interest and find out more information click on the link below. www.meetup.com/glugbrighton/

29 April 2010 -Google, 2nd Floor, Chaussee d’Etterbeek 180,1000 Brussels,Belgium Digital Media, interactivity and identity – A debate withJuRow FarrandRob van Kranenburg This second event of the Untitled initiative gathers two notorious guests who both explore the effects of technologies on societies and interactivity through artistic “experiments” and theoretical investigations.

Matt Adams is included in the newly announced WIRED survey of Britain’s top digital power-brokers at number 81 of 100. www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/

Lyn Gardner concludes her review of the Forest Fringe Microfestival at the Battersea Arts Centre by recommending Soft Message. www.guardian.co.uk/stage/

In the final of Artsadmin’s weekenders, Ju Row-Farr of Blast Theory will look at developing performance ideas using low-tech / quick paper-based methods for moving ideas on quickly, as well as exploring the surrounding context as site for ideas and strategies for placing the audience at the centre of the work. For more information click… Read more »

Monika Codourey is a Zurich based architect who thinks beyond designing spatial forms and explores how digital media can contribute to shaping social processes in urban environment. Currently she is a Ph.D. Research Fellow at Z-Node of the Planetary Collegium (University of Plymouth, UK) and Institute of Cultural Studies (Zurich University of Arts, CH). In… Read more »

Blast Theory artist Ju Row Farr will be on sabbatical for 6 months from 1st July to the end of 2010. During her sabbatical period, Ju will be taking a studio in Brighton to pursue her own practice as well as undertaking several courses and workshops. We wish Ju the best of luck and look… Read more »

Matt Adams is mentoring PVI on their new work Transumer for this year’s Biennale of Sydney. www.pvicollective.com/art

Our work for Radio 3 called Soft Message will be presented by Forest Fringe at the Battersea Arts Centre in London on 2-3rd April before a tour to Cardiff, Bristol and Glasgow. www.forestfringe.blogspot.com

Blast Theory is pleased to invite you to an Artist Talk by the current Artist in Residence at 20 Wellington Road – Ben Eaton. Wednesday 24th March, 6.30-8pm at Blast Theory’s studios 20 Wellington Road, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 1DN. Ben Eaton will talk about playing the ‘real’, the mechanic as the message, and games as… Read more »

Blast Theory is a partner with The Centre for Digital Entertainment (University of Bath and Bournemouth University) to support a doctoral placement. The CDE has 10 Doctoral Studentships on offer in Digital Entertainment to research while working in a range of media organisations. The program lasts 4 years. 75% of your time will be based… Read more »

Dr Jonathan Foster at the University of Sheffield is starting a research project on archiving interactive performances using Rider Spoke as a case study. For more details click here.

Julianne Pierce will discuss Blast Theory’s work at Campfire on 15th April. A monthly informal London-based event organised by the collaborative network ditto.

Sheila is a London based interdisciplinary artist that makes performance, film and Live Art work. As well as working solo Sheila also works collaboratively and is a core member of Pacitti Company and a Blast Theory Associate Artist. Whilst in residence Sheila will be re-visiting “Sugar Sugar White” (one of her most recent works) prior… Read more »

As part of Blank’s mini Festival of Creative Learning, Pecha Kucha Night Brighton ‘The Spirit of the Stairs’ curated by Blank and Blast Theory will take place at 20 Wellington Road: 10 people, 10 presentations, 20 slides, 6 minutes 40 seconds each. Friday March 12 from 7:30 pm – 11:00pm at Blast Theory, 20 Wellington… Read more »

Ben works with computers, video, and performance to make interactive work and experiences. Recently he has been thinking a lot about board games and mysteries, during his time at Blast Theory he will be developing a new secret project.

Matt Adams will be discussing the work of Blast Theory at Connected – a showcase of cutting edge participative and interactive performing arts work. Presented by the British Council as part of TPAM (Tokyo Performing Arts Market) from 1-4 March. www.connected-uk.org/

There’s a 7 page spread on us in issue 6 of Amusement magazine, a lush French magazine on games. Interview by Isabelle Arvers and photos by Neil Bridge Neil Bridge photos

We are very pleased to announce that Ulrike and Eamon Compliant has won the Best Real World Game at the 2010 International Mobile Gaming Awards, announced at the awards ceremony in Barcelona on 15th February. www.imgawards.com

Can You See Me Now? is part of the Late at Tate focus on gaming, Friday 5th March at Tate Britain, London. Entry is free and opening hours are 18:00-22:00. www.tate.org.uk

A new work The Goody Bullet will premiere at V&A Friday Late on 26th February from 18:30-22:00 as part of the Decode: Digital Design Sensations exhibition.

We are very pleased to announce that Ulrike and Eamon Compliant has been nominated for the Best Real World Game at this years International Mobile Gaming Awards. For full detals about the awards please visit their website. www.imgawards.com

Executive Producer Julianne Pierce will give a lecture on Blast Theory to MA students in Interactive Media: Crictical Theory & Practice, Wednesday 28th January at Goldsmiths, London.

Blast Theory have joined the 10:10 campaign; committing to reduce carbon emissions by 10% over the next 12 months. Learn more about taking part here: www.1010uk.org

Blast Theory are running placements for interns at their studios with a deadline for applications twice a year. The placements are for a minimum of one month and a maximum of three months. We are particulalrly looking for someone to work on an exciting new project for Channel 4 aimed at teenagers, ideal candidates will… Read more »

Blueprint magazine has produced a list of people who will influence design in the coming year and, apparently, that includes us.

The Guardian’s PDA Blog has an overview of Augmented Reality and credits Rider Spoke as a pioneering work. www.guardian.co.uk/media/

Blast Theory’s Executive Producer Julianne Pierce has been selected to attend a 2-week residential Clore Leadership Short Courses in March 2010. Recognised as the foremost cultural leadership training programme in the UK, Clore Leadership provides intensive personal development, an examination of the nature of good leadership and an introduction to key areas of expert knowledge… Read more »

A site specific adaptation of Rider Spoke by Blast Theory with Liverpool artists Lorena Rivero de Beer and Venya Krutikov is in the Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment at FACT from 18 December – 21 February. http://fact.co.uk/whatson/

The book features a foreword by Alan Haydon, Director of the De La Warr Pavilion and an essay by Richard Grayson. It also includes images and documentation of the work in Venice. Mixing jump cuts, brash titles and Vietnamese hip hop from Onra, the video plays fast and loose with the events in Venice. It… Read more »

David Fryer studied Textiles at Goldsmiths and Design at the Royal College of Art and now creates time-based and permanent public art works, gallery exhibitions and group exhibitions. Most recently applying gold leaf to shrapnel wounds from WW2 on a wall on the North side of Tower Bridge and impaling the severed heads of bankers… Read more »

Sheila Ghelani is a London based interdisciplinary artist working in performance and film. She has worked extensively with Pacitti Company and Blast Theory as an associate artist. Sheila’s will be developing ideas for a new performance film and also working on a commission for Cecilia Wee during her residency. We are very pleased to have… Read more »

Matt Adams will give a workshop exploring the impact of locative media on the museum and heritage sector in Amsterdam on 8th December as part of The Mobile City. www.themobilecity.nl/2009

As part of the Live Art Development Agency’s Live Art in the UK programme, documentation of Blast Theory’s work was recently shown at the Post War Arts and Culture Festival in Sulaymanaya in Iraqi-Kurdistan. Full details about the festival at www.artrole.org

Blast Theory is currently calling for applications for the 20 Wellington Road Residency Programme, for the period 2009 – 2011. Applications 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 –… Read more »

Matt Adams discusses kidnapping people as part of a 5 minute interview about scaring people. It’s at the end of the 60 minute programme.

Ju Row Farr will be presenting a lecture at Birbeck College, University of London on the MA Arts Policy Course titled The Arts and Cultural/Creative Industries on Tuesday 17th November.

Julianne Pierce is giving a lecture on the work of Blast Theory at the SPIELART Festival in Munich on Monday 30th November at 7pm. SPIELART is an international festival of contemporary theatre art. It presents artists who are willing to risk something, who use sensuality, humor and intelligence to express what is special, lively and… Read more »

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 »

Ulrike and Eamon Compliant features in Peter Wayner’s article on new forms of gaming in the New York Times. To read the article click here.

Channel 4 Education is supporting the development of ‘Ivy4Evr‘, an interactive band diary for SMS aimed at teenagers. Blast Theory is working with renowned writer Tony White, author of the 2003 novel ‘Foxy-T’ which captured the “voice of the modern city”.

Matt Adams’ article on Pervasive Games appeared in The Independent supplement covering Sheffield’s Doc/Fest.

Blast Theory has been awarded the first ever Locative Cinema Commission. The commission is an initiative of Banff New Media Institute, ZER01 01SJ Biennial and Sundance Film Festival. The commission will commence with a residency at Banff New Media Institute in summer 2010 followed by the premiere at the ZER01 01SJ Biennial in San Jose… Read more »

Current Artist in Residence Andy Field will be giving an Artist Talk on Wednesday 11th November from 6.30pm – 8pm. During his six-week residency, Andy has been experimenting with performance and interactive techniques. He has used the time to develop a new piece with the working title ‘First and Second Wilderness’. In his Artist Talk,… Read more »

The Live Art Development Agency (LADA) is celebrating its tenth anniversary through a special series of projects including ten commissions of short films about and around Live Art that will be posted online each month throughout 2009. The ten artists who are making anniversary films have all had some kind of relationship with the Agency… Read more »

Flypad is a new commission for the Public Gallery in West Bromwich (United Kingdom) which opened in August 2009. www.thepublic.com

Blast Theory is the lead partner in a project to develop a prototype for interactive outside broadcasting. The project is funded by a Technology Strategy Board Creative Industries Fast-Track grant and we are working with the Mixed Reality Lab (University of Nottingham) and crossplatform production company Somethin’ Else.

We are very pleased to announce that we won a Brighton and Hove Business Award in the category of Most Awesome Use of Digital Media at Friday’s award ceremony.

London based artist Andy Field is currently in residence at 20 Wellington Rd. Andy is a theatremaker specialising in interactive experiences. He will be in residence for seven weeks, researching several new project ideas.

Blast Theory is pleased to welcome a new intern, Tim Williams. With an MA in Art History, Tim will be working with the company on archiving, publications and admin support

Matt will present two recent projects – You Get Me and Ulrike and Eamon Compliant – at the Netzkulturen conference on Sunday 11th October.

You Get Me is a finalist in IndieCade, games festival in Culver City, California October 1st – 4th. IndieCade supports independent game development and organises a series of international events showcasing the future of independent games. www.indiecade.com/

Blast Theory is a finalist in two categories of the Brighton and Hove Business Awards – The Most Awesome Use of Digital Media and The Creative Industries Award. Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on 9th October.

Gearóid Conlon has joined Blast Theory for six weeks through the Wired Sussex Intern programme. Gearóid recently graduated from University of Brighton in Digital Media Design and will be working with Blast Theory on design and 3D modeling for several current projects.

Leonardo has published “When Presence & Absence Turn Into Pattern & Randomness: Can You See Me Now?” by Maria Chatzichristodoulou. www.leonardo.info

Blast Theory welcomes our inaugural artists in residence Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski. Based in Sydney, Australia, Josephine and Leon are media artists whose long-term collaboration has produced a variety of screen-based installations. They will be based at Blast Theory from August 12 – 26. For more about their collaborative projects visit http://lx.sysx.org/

TRUCOLD will be screened alongside works by a selection of artists at Fringe Fusina, a newly established contemporary art event launching in 2009 during the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Festival. ‘Make Shift’ has been curated around the theme of temporary production sites and physical/mental spaces where the processes of making can be seen to… Read more »

Rider Spoke continues its successful touring itinerary with European and UK dates over summer 2009. LIGHTSOUND programme as part of Metropolis Biennale, Copenhagen, 12th – 16th August Linz Capital of Culture 2009 and Ars Electronica, 30th August – 7th September www.linz09.at www.aec.at The Bristol Do at Arnolfini, 21st – 27th September

The British Council Showcase is held every two years and provides a platform for the best of British Live Art, performance and dance. It attracts promoters and presenters from across the world. Rider Spoke will be presented for delegates from 24th – 27th August and was announced as a Showcase highlight in The Guardian. www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009

Blast Theory are running placements for interns at their studios with a deadline for applications twice a year. The placements are for a minimum of one month and a maximum of three months.

Blast Theory are looking for a trainee IT technician to tour with the group. Applications are invited from recent graduates with a talent for working in IT and an interest in interactive art.

Ulrike and Eamon Compliant has had a fantastic reception and was picked by several curators as the best work they saw at the Venice Biennale. Photos by Anne Brassier are now on our Flickr site. www.flickr.com/photos

Jess Scully and Jonathon Rogers made a short film for the British Council about Rider Spoke at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney which is now up on YouTube. www.youtube.com

Blast Theory are a partner in the Horizon, a major new research initiative led by the University of Nottingham that is exploring the potential of ubiquitous computing to transform our digital economy. Horizon will be launching a new research programme focusing on the themes of creative industries and transportation, supported by a Doctoral Training Centre… Read more »

Blast Theory is currently calling for applications for the 20 Wellington Road Residency Programme, for the period 2009 – 2011. 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… Read more »

We are delighted to announce that John Hunter, a recent graduate in Drama and Theatre, from Royal Holloway, University of London, has joined us as Artists’ Assistant. Hannah Brady has left Blast Theory to go freelance as a Production Manager after working with us for three years. We would like to wish Hannah good luck… Read more »

Sam Pearson and Clara Garcia Fraile are in residence for one month working on a new project called In My Shoes. They are developing a ‘wearable film’ which seemingly places the viewer within someone else’s body. This is our first residency at 20 Wellington Road and we are delighted to welcome, support and mentor Sam… Read more »

Blast Theory presents a new work Ulrike and Eamon Compliant, commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion for the 53rd Venice Biennale. At the Palazzo Zenobio Fondamenta del Soccorso Dorodurso Venice, Italy Dates: 4th – 7th June, daily 10am – 6pm Ulrike and Eamon Compliant is a new ambulatory work exploring subjectivity in the heart… Read more »

You will be helping out on a new work ‘Ulrike and Eamon Compliant‘ which has been commissioned by De La Warr Pavillion for the 53rd Biennale of Venice. We pay a day rate of £20, you need basic carpentry skills, have a keen eye for detail and work well in a team. If this sounds… Read more »

We’re looking for an experienced Shockwave 3D developer to take responsibility for bug-fixing an existing Shockwave 3D client used for our online performances. You will be responsible for identifying and implementing a solution, liaising with the original developers and preparing tests for signing off the work.

Blast Theory is currently calling for applications for our Artists’ Assistant position. This is a one-year full-time contract, joining our team of six people. Deadline for applications is April 20th 2009 Interviews May 5th 2009 Starting June 15th 2009 Please send all CV’s and covering letter by post to: Dan Lamont Administrator Blast Theory Unit… Read more »