Posted on Fri 30 Jun 2017
Here I describe the benefits and drawbacks of choosing an interactive, digital platform as a means of increasing the reader's enjoyment of a story.
Posted on Wed 28 Jun 2017
Our latest call for funded Residencies is currently open. To give you an idea of what they offer, we checked in with three of our past Residency participants, to find out what they are doing now...
Posted on Tue 27 Jun 2017
Robots that map and choreograph patterns of human activity using light. LEVEL has invited artist Angela Davies to explore the relationship between contemporary art and personal wellbeing
Posted on Mon 26 Jun 2017
Producer and musician Jay Auborn joined us to discuss and demonstrate the processes used to create the album 'Race to Zero'; a collaboration with musician John Matthias that sets out to create a unique and fractured sense of sonic place. Jay spoke to us about the techniques used to realise the…
Posted on Mon 19 Jun 2017
Do we need to become fluent in sign language before we can begin to understand art created by our Deaf communities, or is there another way to appreciate their creative work?
Posted on Fri 9 Jun 2017
Borahm Kim is a media artist and a director of creative group Untitled Road. She is here on a studio residency from South Korea and hoping to develop scenarios and methods for non-verbal storytelling inspired by bringing together different languages and cultures.Borahm spoke at the lunchtime talk…
Posted on Fri 2 Jun 2017
Before giving It Must Have Been Dark By Then a go for myself, I had heard a lot about Duncan Speakman’s commission by Ambient Literature; a two year long collaboration investigating the future of the book. During the two day Ambient Literature Symposium here at the Watershed I curiously watched…
Posted on Fri 2 Jun 2017
Becca Rose is an artist, designer, and educator. In 2015 she started to explore ways to connect paper pages with sounds and animations on a tablet and has since developed an app for creating and sharing children’s stories across digital and physical spaces. The app Bear Abouts was recently awarded…
Posted on Tue 30 May 2017
The role of art and culture in the city is changing. Moving from the arts venue and audience, towards going ‘out’ into the city, nurturing a vision of the city itself as a creative, participative space in which citizens are themselves makers are "co-creators". Eleanor Pender spoke to us about…
Posted on Fri 26 May 2017
"Ambient Literature is comprised of many ideas. Some of them might be in conflict with each other, and we think that’s fine. We think that’s a healthy thing for an emergent form."
