Lyn Gardner has listed nine productions since 1983 that transformed theatre and has included Desert Rain at the Riverside Studios. Link: www.guardian.co.uk/stage

In the run up to the publication of Pervasive Games: Theory and Design for which Matt Adams has written a text, the authors – Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros – have started a blog on pervasive games. pervasivegames.wordpress.com

Can You See Me Now? will be presented as part of Arco 09 International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid from February 13 – 15. Game times are 5.30-8.30pm (CET) For more information on ARCO click here

We are very pleased to announce that Becky Edmunds has joined Blast Theory as an Associate Artist. Becky joins Dicky Eton, Sheila Ghelani, Niki Woods and Paul Dungworth as a regular collaborator. Please click here to read a biography for Becky.

Rider Spoke will tour to Australia in February 2009 presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and at the Adelaide Film Festival. The artists will be doing talks, workshops and mentoring at Crossover as part of their visit. Rider Spoke runs from the George St entrance of the MCA from Feb 6 –… Read more »

During the recent presentation of Day Of The Figurines at the Centre Pour L’Image Contemporaine Matt did an interview which is now online. Click here to watch

Blast Theory are looking for a studio assistant to work with us on a part time basis. The position will be 2 days a week and will begin at the end of January. Deadline for applications Friday 16th January.

We are very pleased to announce that Blast Theory won the Digital Collaboration Award at last weeks Digital Media Awards for our work with The Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham on Rider Spoke.

Blast Theory will be presenting Can You See Me Now? as part of the Arte.Mov Festival in Belo Horizonte from 20th to 23rd November. Performance times: November 20th and 21st 7pm – 10pm (GMT) and 22nd 2pm – 5pm (GMT) Blast Theory artist Ju Row Farr will give an Artist Talk at the Arte.Mov Festival… Read more »

Day Of The Figurines will be presented at Version Beta in Geneva. The biennial runs from 31st October through to 14th December.  

Rider Spoke has been shortlisted for the European Innovative Games Award (EIGA) 2008. The winner of the €35,000 prize will be announced in Darmstadt, Germany on 6th November.

Presented as part of PLACCC 2008 | Art On Site – International Site-specific Programme Series, Budapest Autumn Festival, 10 – 14 October. Rider Spoke in Budapest is co-organised by Artopolis Association and Budapest Autumn Festival. This presentation has been made possible by the generous support of the British Council. Where: Gödör Klub, Budapest V. ker.,… Read more »

Matt Adams has been invited to speak at the Dislocate08 symposium in Yokohama, Japan on 20th and 21st of September. Under the title of ‘Constructing Place’ the symposium will bring together artists, designers, architects, urban planners in the exploration of our conceptualization of space and the impact of emerging technologies upon our relationship with our… Read more »

The Royal Opera House London has commissioned a new work called You Get Me as part of Wayne McGregor’s Deloitte Ignite festival. Performance times: Friday 12 Sept, 1pm – 3pm (GMT) Saturday 13 Sept, 1pm – 5pm (GMT) Sunday 14 Sept, 1pm – 5pm (GMT) Admission: Free but bookings are essential to play at the… Read more »

The Rider Spoke DVD has been selected to screen at ElectroÉtre 2008, the screening program of the Electrofringe Festival. Held in Newcastle, Australia from 2nd-6th October 2008, Electrofringe is a dynamic festival of experimental electronic arts and culture dedicated to skills development and artistic exchange. The ElectroÉtre 2008 program features documented live performance works that… Read more »

An article appears in the current issue of The Performing Arts Journal called Temporal Expansion in Blast Theory’s Day of the Figurines by Gabriella Giannachi and Steve Benford. The article can be purchased for $10 via this link:

One newly refurbished studio space is currently available for rent at the Blast Theory Building in Portslade, Brighton. Designed by award winning architects Block, the building has four studio spaces, an edit suite, a communal area, storage space, a project space and a residency space. The building is a Victorian warehouse overlooking the harbour and… Read more »

The Live Art Development Agency has produced a screening programme as part of Live Brits II – Superintimacy at the Hebbel-Am-Ufer in Berlin. The festival will take place from 1 July to 5 July 2008 at the Hebbel-Am-Ufer in HAU EINS. As well as the screening programme this festival also includes the work of Forced… Read more »

Matt Adams is talking about Alternate Reality Games as part of the Hide and Seek Festival at the South Bank Centre on Friday 27th June. Other speakers include Jane McGonigal, Matt Locke and Dan Hon. www.hideandseekfest.co.uk

Day Of The Figurines in Meltdown and Hide and Seek Festival Day Of The Figurines will be presented at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London from 12 June – 5 July as part of Meltdown (curated by Massive Attack) and the Hide and Seek Festival. Players can join the game from 12pm – 8pm… Read more »

Having taken part in Crossover events in Adelaide and Yorkshire, Matt will also act as a mentor on a special version for Channel 4 commissioning editors in June. In the words of its director, Frank Boyd, Crossover aims to ‘ to get people from different backgrounds (film, tv, games, animation, web design) generating ideas and… Read more »

Flypad is a new commission for the Public Gallery in West Bromwich (United Kingdom) opening in the Autumn. More details can be found on the project page. www.thepublic.com/

We are pleased to be presenting Rider Spoke as part of this years Brighton Festival’s outdoor programme. Dates: 8th – 11th May

Caravan is a new initiative that aims to strengthen the international networks and expand the range of opportunities for performing artists and companies in south east England to work abroad. There are two strands to the work of caravan. The dialogue programme is a series of conversations that started in autumn 2007 that is preparing… Read more »

The work of Blast Theory will be featured as part of Khoj Live 08, a Live Art festival taking place in Delhi, India between 25 and 30 March in collaboration the Live Art Development Agency. For information about Khoj Live 08 click here

Matt Adams will speak as part of “Flaneurs: The network is the city, A creative workshop on mobile urban services for London 2012” which takes place from 2–6 pm on Thursday 27 March 2008 at the LSE.

Rider Spoke was one of the selected games from around the world shown at IndieCade 2008. All the selected games are now online here.

We are pleased to announce that Rider Spoke will be presented by The British Council Athens between 13th and 16th March this year. The event will begin at Eptachalkou Street, Thissio, 118 51 Athens between 6 and 9pm daily. The work is being presented in collaboration with the Greek Centre for the Promotion of Volunteerism… Read more »

The work of Blast Theory will be featured as part of Live Art Unpacked, developed by La Ribot and Centre d’Art Contemprain Genève in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency, the conference will explore the work of Live Art in the UK.

A full page review of Rider Spoke by Gabriella Giannachi has appeared in Australian performance magazine Realtime. www.realtimearts.net

Blast Theory is looking for someone to work as an intern on a project called Participate starting in March for 3 months. Deadline for applicants is February 29th. Please send all CV’s and covering letter to” Kirsten Engelmann Blast Theory Unit 5, 20 Wellington Road Portslade Brighton, BN41 1DN

Blast Theory’s contribution to the Integrated Project on Pervasive Gaming has been praised in the latest EU report; “… only some of the work [ ] is considered outstanding with good use of resources, good management, flexible problem solving, adoption of new technologies, involvement of larger and relevant target audiences, resulting in good quality deliverables…. Read more »

We are very pleased to announce that artists’ assistant Hannah Talbot and her partner Ryan are now the proud parents of one Emily Jane Brady, she arrived on December 14th and everyone is fine. Nice work.

Blast Theory have been invited to present a conference at Salla Parpallo in Valencia this January. Matt Adams will present a talk on Blast Theory’s work.

We are looking for a C++ developer to port an existing project from Windows Mobile version 4 to version 6. We estimate it will be a 2 day job. For full details click here Contact us for more information.

Matt Adams has been appointed Visiting Professor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. www.cssd.ac.uk

Can You See Me Now? video is being presented as part of VIDEOFRONTERAS in Spain this month. VIDEOFRONTERAS is an event with critical debates, conferences and workshops about the relation betwen Live Art, the body, dance, and technologies and new media. The programme is being curated in three strands: The dates for VIDEOFRONTERAS are: 20… Read more »

TRUCOLD & Other Works is being presented as part of this year’s Arte.Mov festival in Belo Horizonte, Brazil this November. Group member Ju Row Farr will be presenting a talk on the work of Blast Theory.

We are pleased to announce that we will be presenting Can You See Me Now? as part of this year’s Machine-RAUM festival in Denmark. Performance dates are 8th to 10th November and performance times are; Thursday 8th – 14:30 to 15:30 CET Friday 9th – 10:00 to 12:00, 14:00 to 16:00 and 19:30 to 21:20… Read more »

Rider Spoke is a new work for cyclists combining theatre with game play and state of the art technology the project continues Blast Theory’s enquiry into performance in the age of personal communication. The piece is available for touring in 2008. “Rider Spoke is such a gloriously enlivening piece of theatre.” “The show’s greatest gift… Read more »

Can You See Me Now? is being presented as part of the Cross Media Week at Picnic ’07 in Amsterdam this week. Game times are 3pm to 7pm (CEST). Dates: 27-29 September For details of times and more about Picnic go to: www.picnicnetwork.org

We’re thrilled to announce that Julianne Pierce will start as Executive Producer and that Kirsten Engelmann will begin a year’s maternity cover as Artist’s Assistant in September. Julianne has run the Australian Network for Art and Technology and is an internationally respected curator, critic and producer who will move from Adelaide to join us. Kirsten… Read more »

Gabriella Giannachi has written a review for the current issue of Realtime. http://www.realtimearts.net/

This internship is to work together with one of the artists’ in Blast Theory to build between 6 and 18 avatars for Flypad. Flypad is a permanent museum based interactive installation for up to 12 people at a time, for The Public museum in West Bromwich, which is to be opened next year. The internship… Read more »

We’re pleased to be part of a recently announced artists commission ‘Voices of the Sea’ – initiated by a partnership of Brighton & Hove based arts organisations, to create two major new works, responding to the coastal context and maritime heritage of SE England. The commission also involves a residency at 20 Wellington Road in… Read more »

We are looking to recruit an Artists’ Assistant on a 1 year contract to cover maternity leave. Deadline for applicants is July 9th. Please send all CV’s and covering letter to: Dan Lamont Blast Theory Unit 5, 20 Wellington Road Portslade Brighton, BN41 1DN

We are pleased to announce that Can You See Me Now? will be performed on the streets of Preston this July as part of In Certain Places public art initiative. Game days will be 26th to 28th July. 1pm – 4pm each day. www.incertainplaces.org

We are looking for a Flash Developer to work with us over a 30 day period between mid July and October this year. For full details of the requirement and how to apply click here Deadline for applicants is midday Monday 2nd July.

A Brighton player merges Day Of The Figurines with 24. They only went and mashed it up. www.youtube.com

We are extremely pleased to announce that we have received an honorary mention for Day Of The Figurines at this year’s Prix Ars Electronica, the International Competition for Cyber Arts. Blast Theory previously won the coveted Golden Nica for Can You See Me Now? in 2003.

Day Of the Figurines is being presented as part of Birmingham’s 10th annual Fierce! Festival this May. The show opened on 19th May and will run through to 11th June 2007. You can register to join the town by coming along to Wolverhampton Art Gallery daily between 12 and 5pm. Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands,… Read more »

Ian Russell from Trinity College, Dublin has written about his experience of playing Can You See Me Now? during it’s recent presentation in the city. www.iarchitectures.com/cysmn

Excellent blog put together by some of the players of Day Of The Figurines at The Lighthouse in Brighton. www.webjam.com/figjam

Can You See Me Now? will be performed on the streets of Dublin between 9th and 12th May. Game times are 12 pm to 3pm daily. Log on to play.

Due to staff changes Blast Theory are now recruiting for a full time Company Manager. Deadline for applicants is May 31st. Please send all CV’s and covering letter to: Dan Lamont Blast Theory Unit 5, 20 Wellington Road Portslade Brighton, BN41 1DN

The UK Premiere of Day Of The Figurines has now ended at The Lighthouse in Brighton. The next Day Of The Figurines event will take place as part of Fierce! Festival in Birmingham. Please come along and join in. Web: www.lighthouse.org.uk/

We are pleased to announce that Blast Theory will be performing Can You See Me Now? at the Donau Festival in Austria this April. Performance dates and times; Thursday 19th April – 7 -10pm Friday 20th April – 6-9pm Saturday 21st April – 6-9pm For more information Web: www.donaufestival.at

Volunteer based in Brighton needed by Blast Theory to play Day Of The Figurines for 2 hours a day 4th- 27th April.

We moved! After our brief stay in the glories of New England House we are now installed at 20 Wellington Road overlooking a timber yard and the docks. And the Arts Council of England have awarded us £250,000 to complete the renovation of the building. This will provide three spaces to rent, a bedsit, a… Read more »

Blast Theory have been trialling a new mobile game, Prof Tanda, this February. The game is part of the Participate research project, offering context sensitive activities and advice about reducing your carbon foot print. See the Participate project page for more details.

Uncle Roy All Around You is currently part of an exhibition showing at Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. The exhibition is titled Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone and is running through to April 22nd 2007. For more information Web: www.contemporary.org Location 100 W. Centre Street Baltimore, MD 21201 PH: 410.783.5720 F: 410.783.5722

Soft Message is a new work by Blast Theory exploring how and why we use the phone. The 30 minute broadcast will go out at 10pm on BBC Radio 3. Date: Thursday 7th December 2006 at 10pm  

Blast Theory will be exhibiting TRUCOLD & Other Works as part of Articulated London, organised by The Light Surgeons. The exhibition will bring together a range of artists exploring public and private space. Date: 1st to 10th December 2006 between 11am and 7pm Location: Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, Southbank, London, SE1 9PH

We’re delighted to announce that we have appointed Paul Dungworth, Dicky Eton, Sheila Ghelani and Niki Woods as Associate Artists. These four artists have been long time collaborators of ours, working on Kidnap, Desert Rain, 10 Backwards, Uncle Roy All Around You, Can You See Me Now?, Light Square, Danger Game and Day Of The… Read more »

Blast Theory will be presenting Can You See Me Now? at the Banff New Media Institute in August. Date: 11-14th August 2006 Web: www.banffcentre.ca Location: Main Hallway, JPL Atrium / Banff Centre Campus, Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada

Blast Theory is a partner in Participate, a 3 year research project to create a mass participation event about the environment using mobile devices. Alongside the BBC, British Telecom, Microsoft Research, University of Nottingham, University of Bath and Sciencescope, Blast Theory is working on designing a game to monitor player’s environmental impacts. Web: www.participateonline.info

Having recently completed an 11 minute trailer for a TV project in New York we are pleased to say it has now gone to pilot. More details to follow.

Blast Theory will present TRUCOLD as part of Festival Art Rock taking place in Saint-Brieuc, France from 2nd to 4th June 2006. Date: 2nd – 4th June 2006 Web: www.artrock.org Location: Pavillon Art Numérique, Musée de Saint-Brieuc, Saint-Brieuc, France

Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj, creative members of Blast Theory, have been presented with the Maverick Award at the annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Date: Award ceremony held on 9 March. Location: Game Developers Choice Awards, San Francisco

Blast Theory have been commissioned to create a major new interactive work for The Public, West Bromwich, UK. Flypad will be a permanent exhibit using augmented reality for up to twelve players. The second stage of testing took place in West Bromwich between 23 – 25 January 2006 and comprised both user and technical testing…. Read more »

Blast Theory have made a permanent move to the South East region. The group have taken temporary space in Brighton while they develop a new warehouse space overlooking Shoreham Harbour in Portslade. New contact details from Monday 24th April 2006 Unit 4, Level 5 South New England House New England Street Brighton, BN1 4GH Tel:… Read more »

Blast Theory will be presenting Single Story Building as part of the Nottdance 06 Festival taking place in various locations across Nottingham in May. Date: 3rd to 5th May, 2006 Web: www.dance4.co.uk Location: Sneinton Market, Opposite the Victoria Leisure Centre, Gedling Street, Sneinton

Day Of The Figurines is a new work being developed as part of the IPerG (Integrated Project on Pervasive Gaming) research project. For more information go to: Day Of The Figurines

aRt & D: Research and Development in Art Matt Adams contributes one chapter to this publication, documenting the development process of Can You See Me Now? Brouwer, Joke. V2_Publishing/NAi Publishers, 2005 ISBN 90-5662-389-3 A Guide to Good Practice in Collaborative Working Methods and New Media Tools Creation: by and for artists in the cultural sector… Read more »

Blast Theory is a member of the consortium for the European Integrated Project on Pervasive Gaming (IPerG), a three and a half year initiative researching the technical and design aspects of pervasive games. Along with partners such as Sony, Nokia and the University of Nottingham, the group will create games that extend in time and… Read more »

Matt Adams in discussion with Wayne Ashley, Thomas Soetens and Kora Van den Bulcke on themes of hybridity, overclocking the city and the virtual self and society is now online. Date: 19th March 2006

Matt Adams spoke on ‘The Social Dimensions of Digital Gaming’ panel as part of the Games Developers Conference (GDC:06) in San Jose. The Social Dimensions of Digital Gaming: Monday 20 March 10.00-18.00 GDC:06 Dates: 20-24 March 2006 Location: San Jose Convention Center, California, USA Web: www.gdconf.com

Caitlin Newton Broad will present the work of Blast Theory to an Australia Council session on Media and Live Performance. Date: 22 February 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia

Blast Theory have been commissioned to create a major new interactive work for The Public, West Bromwich, UK. Flypad will be a permanent exhibit using augmented reality for up to twelve players.

Ju Row Farr attended the CreativeLab on Concepting Pervasive Multi User Applications – a peer-to-peer creative cross disciplinary lab on concepting interactive narrative pervasive applications, as a participating expert. During this intensive 5-day think tank, attendees formed teams of three to five members and developed concepts for pervasive narrative multi-user applications, considering challenges, limitations and… Read more »

Matt Adams spoke on ‘The Impact of Technology on Creativity’ at The Making of a Creative City, International Forum in Taipei on 18 December. Keynote speakers included: Chris Smith, MP, former minister of DCMS, UK and Mr. Charles Landry, Director of COMEDIA. ‘The Making of a Creative City’ was sponsored by the Department of Cultural… Read more »

Blast Theory has been invited to make a conceptual proposal in response to the Museum’s Dana Centre as part of SMAP: Big Ideas. The group is proposing a season of events exploring fear titled You Are Afraid. It will be presented alongside three other commissioned ideas at a free public event. Date: Wednesday 7 December… Read more »

Internationally acclaimed video installation TRUCOLD is being presented as part of Variations on the Picturesque at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada. Date: 2 December 2005 – 19 March 2006 Web: www.kwag.on.ca

Nick Tandavanitj has recently completed his Arts and Humanities Research Board Fellowship at the University of Nottingham. Nick worked with Adam Drozd and Steve Benford researching social and artistic uses of mobile phones. A website documenting the work is now online.

Blast Theory’s award-winning chase game, played live online and on the streets, will be presented as part of May You Live In Interesting Times, Cardiff’s festival of creative technology, in collaboration with Bloc, Chapter Arts Centre and the National Museums & Galleries of Wales. Date: 28 October: 11am-1pm and 5-7pm; 29 & 30 October: 11am-1pm… Read more »

Blast Theory is running an interactive workshop for 15 Wales-based professional artists. Up to five of the participants will be invited to work on the presentation of Can You See Me Now? as part of Cardiff’s festival of creative technology from 28-30 October. Date: 1&2 September Web: www.bloc.org.uk Location: National Musuem & Gallery, Cardiff

Blast Theory created a new phone-based work called Single Story Building as part of Tate Online’s special project in support of London’s Olympic and Paralympic Bid. Date: Live in June 2005 and since archived Web: www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/ Location: Tate Online

Documentation and an interactive replay of Can You See Me Now? will be on show as part of the Millennium Dialogue exhibition curated by Alex Adriaansens of V2. Date: June 21st to July 11th Location: Millennium Museum, Beijing

Blast Theory in collaboration with the Mixed Reality Lab were recently nominated for two awards in this year’s BAFTA Interactive Awards. Uncle Roy All Around You has been nominated for Interactive Arts and for Technical and Social Innovation. Blast Theory’s work is also part of the Fuelling the Future installation at the Science Museum which… Read more »

Blast Theory is showing three works looking at the city: Single Story Building, TRUCOLD and Can You See Me Now? including a brand new interactive replay from Tokyo. Tuesday 21 June – Thursday 23 June 10am – 5.30pm Friday 24 June 10am – 1pm Periscope Gallery, 19 Lee Bank Business Centre, 55 Holloway Head, Birmingham… Read more »

In this award-winning chase game played in real time, online players can try and outrun Blast Theory who will be running around the real streets of the city equipped with handheld computers and tracked by satellites. More information here. Date: 2-5pm on 1,2,3 April and 4-7pm on 6,7,8 April Location: The Junction, Cambridge

In this award-winning chase game played in real time, online players can try and outrun Blast Theory who will be running around the real streets of the city equipped with handheld computers and tracked by satellites. More information. Date: 23 – 27 February 2005, 11pm-2am GMT/2-5pm Tokyo local time Location: NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo… Read more »

Nick Tandavanitj and Caitlin Newton Broad will be in Tokyo in January. They will be undertaking research and site visits to prepare for a project in late February. Date: 4 – 10 January 2005

Blast Theory is one of ten UK-based companies invited by the British Council to participate in the Arts Presenters conference in New York in January. Catherine Williams will be representing the group. Date: 8 – 11 January 2005

Blast Theory are presenting video and interactive computer-based works including TRUCOLD and Single Story Building as part of the exhibition ‘Art Meets Media – Adventures in Perception’. Date: 21 January – 21 March 2005 Web: www.ntticc.or.jp Location: NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404

New typeface designed by Blast Theory and other invited artists. Blast Theory have been commissioned to create their own typeface for the latest CD edition of IBEAM – a project that exploits contemporary typography software to construct typefaces developed by different creative groups. With 26 letters and 10 numbers at their disposal, ‘Blast Theory’s microdot… Read more »

Since 2003, Blast Theory has established an internship scheme to offer under/post graduates valuable experience of working within the contemporary arts arena

Uncle Roy All Around You was nominated for a Net Art Award at the 8th Annual Webby Awards in May 2004. For further information, visit the website here. Can You See Me Now? won the 2003 Golden Nica for Interactive Arts at the Prix Ars Electronica. The project was originally commissioned for Shooting Live Artists… Read more »

Matt Adams and Nick Tandavanitj have just returned from New York as guests of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. They gave presentations at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Pace University and Brooklyn Polytechnic as part of their preparations for a new work in Manhattan in the summer of 2005. Date: 25th November 2004 Web: www.lmcc.net

Blast Theory have been commissioned by the Science Museum to create a permanent interactive exhibit for its new Energy gallery which opens on 23 July 2004. Energy – fueling the future is a collaboration between the Science Museum and invited media artists and designers to find ways to prompt visitors to consider for themselves the… Read more »