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Lunchtime Talk: Wormwood - A Nuclear Plant

Fri 19 Jan 2024 13:00-14:00

Oma Keeling and Morgan Jennings present their research project exploring nuclear history in the North of England, nuclear radiation and illness in popular video games, and the potentials of destruction in science fiction. 

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Lunchtime Talk: Sound Art Out and About

Fri 12 Jan 2024 13:00-14:00

Sound artist Ralph Hoyte will share his experience, as well as the trials and tribulations of using located audio to re-imagine authentic histories.

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Lunchtime Talk: Immersive Play

Fri 8 Dec 2023 13:00-14:00

For this talk, Adrienne Mackey will share some of her past immersive works and offer insights into their genesis and creative process. 

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First Friday December

Fri 1 Dec 2023 17:00-18:00

First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone. December’s event will feature work from Watershed’s Grounding Technologies cohort, a project exploring the intersection of creative technology and local climate action

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Lunchtime Talk: Grounding Technologies

Fri 1 Dec 2023 13:00-14:00

Melissa Blackburn will share motivations and insights from six funded teams - who’ve been exploring how participatory and just approaches creative technology can embolden local climate and biodiversity action.

Brian Gibson's art work Angels Walk Amongst Us - a depiction of an amber cityscape in bronze, yellow, and black tones, with abstract imagery peppered throughout the piece.
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Lunchtime Talk: Fusion

Fri 24 Nov 2023 13:00-14:00

Artist and Workshop Facilitator Brian Gibson talks about his ever-evolving series of images that weave together the enclosed world of everyday technology with the physical spaces that surround us.

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Lunchtime Talk: The Plymouth Undokai Project

Fri 17 Nov 2023 13:00-14:00

This talk discusses the The Plymouth Undokai Project; the UK's first Future Undokai created in collaboration with Barbican Theatre Plymouth and the Future Undokai Project.

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Lunchtime Talk: AI & Human Creativity

Fri 10 Nov 2023 13:00-14:00

In this talk, Sarah Brin uses the nature of creativity as a lens to analyze AI's impacts on and possibilities for the creative industries.