We're hiring! IJAD is looking for a creative and collaborative Digital Marketing & Engagement Lead to grow our online presence, connect with audiences, and support innovative live, hybrid, and digital performance projects. Apply by 19 March. ijaddancecompany.com/work-with-us/ #ArtsJobs

We're part of this amazing exhibition from Hypha and Coven LDN ARCADE is a new exhibition of interactive artworks and experimental films from eleven artists working across the UK and Europe. Tickets for the Private Viewing on Thursday March 19th below :) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/private-vi...

The BFI NETWORK England Short Film Funding is open! The funding supports early career filmmakers by supporting original fictional shortform projects of up to 15 mins in length in live action, animation and immersive/virtual reality. Awards of between £5,000 to £25,000.

Quite the interview! Tracey Emin. Keeping it real, as always. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Spotted a bunch more UK Arts people/orgs leaving X & Facebook etc. Maybe this will help if you're new to BlueSky. I'm still updating now & then, recommendations welcome go.bsky.app/BZ8Tmob

We’re hiring! 📣 Join us as an Officer, Grant Management and help deliver smooth, efficient funding processes across Arts Council England. You’ll manage grant workflows, support improvements and work closely with colleagues nationwide. Apply by 20 Feb 👇 buff.ly/IrBQzdn

@robchafer.bsky.social starter pack on my profile to get you started & connected on here

Off to Somerset House to see the Wayne McGregor show :) www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/way...

@incollusion.bsky.social Are your ART / TECH / PLAY events online? Can I join via zoom or similar without driving all the way to you?

To celebrate the Venetian Carnival, (and my game Carnival winning Best Lines of Dialogue -Adventure Games of the Year), it will be 25% off for two weeks! Not even the might of Mussolini can truly kill the Carnival. store.steampowered.com/app/2928770/...

What technology takes from us and how to take it back. Thoughtful writing on why tech has contributed to modern life feeling artificial, disconnected and empty. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

A.I. is like a microwave meal. You can pop it in, wait 3 minutes, and maybe it will taste good, but you won't have any pride in making it, and no one should admire you for making it.

Check out the back of my head and my hand! :O Note to self : remember to check out Reality Scan

For the first time in decades, we are introducing a new artform: Digital Arts. 💻🎨 Find out why we have made this decision and what it means for you 👇

Great to pop into @bomlab.bsky.social to check out their Virtual Production studio set-up, as part of the CreaTech Frontiers workshops on Unreal, compositing, camera tracking, model making, AI, photogrammetry & 3D scanning, Motion Capture. Skilled team working in central Birmingham + artist-friendly

We seem to be living in an era of competitive shamelessness artreview.com/a-philosophy...

Amazing talks on digital performance in Manchester, thanks to FACT & SODA www.fact.co.uk/event/double...

Amazing ongoing opportunity for Live Art performers based in Birmingham from Fierce Festival! wearefierce.org/fierce-jams/

Scanning, shooting, testing.. repeat! 😆 Here's a peek at the team experimenting with virtual production using some of the 3D environments scanned in the past couple of months. #MBD #InnovateUK #3DScanning #VirtualProduction #BTS

See dancer Kim Bormann who works on Displace Studio's Replica in this exhibition by Marley Starskey Butler at Eastside Projects in Birmingham on Friday at 6pm eastsideprojects.org/projects/mar...

So much interesting stuff in here! Nice to see someone take the knife to big tech

Our deadline for our XR Developer role is on Monday at 12pm! If you’re passionate about XR, an expert in Unity and have coding expertise and love what we do at BOM, we would love to hear from you. Read more and apply: bit.ly/4pDjNVr

Comprehensive UK Sound Art listings & Exhibitions! substack.com/@pinkloudspe...

@beyondbooleans.bsky.social hey! I've really loved everything you've made! Incredible work! Really love the dark retro vibes on these old point and click adventures

The video covers best practices for anchor placement, how to achieve content stability with world locking, and how to enable persistence and sharing using enhanced spatial services. 📌Additional Spatial Anchors 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is available at: Unity - bit.ly/4b4ymNn Unreal - bit.ly/3Y8beGg

📣 Free workshops alert! 📣 In partnership with CreaTech Frontiers, we’re running free Immersive Arts Workshops for Micros, SMEs and Freelancers. From XR project planning to Motion Capture and Virtual Production. Workshops begin on 20th January. Find out more: bit.ly/4arhkZC

New categories in YoutubeVR spatial tab for VR180 and "spatialized" (2D to 3D conversion) videos... Looks like they're getting ready for a big release. Let's hope it also comes with a big update for this mess of an app.

Love this!

Free Dramaturgy available! Our @artscouncilengland.bsky.social funded Dramaturgy Department is open to EOIs from any playwrights or immersive theatre makers in the UK looking for free support this year :) Deadline: 10:00 Monday Jan 12th for our first 3 months of support forms.gle/7YQU9c5mhfAa...

How are artists and their producers developing and distributing art/tech work? 📣 Book your tickets for our fifth annual Producers’ edition of ART // TECH // PLAY LIVE: What the T*ch?!! 05 February 2026, 12:00 - 18:30, @cambridgejunction.bsky.social www.collusion.org.uk/events/art-t...

Give us a vote if you have 5 mins!

Oops!? I broke ChatGPT....

Please register & vote for our SXSW London panel! Mixed Reality is redefining how performers and audiences connect! Hear from theatre and dance artists creating live events where physical & digital bodies interact, & your own physicality is heightened. sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/b...

Why is everyone on Instagram now holding tiny microphones all the time, even when it's just then and their phone? Is this the new "I'm a Pro" look?

Please register & vote for our SXSW London panel! Mixed Reality is redefining how performers and audiences connect! Hear from theatre and dance artists creating live events where physical & digital bodies interact, & your own physicality is heightened. sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/b...

@appleblossomvr.bsky.social Hey! I've got Depthkit volumetric unity shaders in Unity's built in pipeline. Think you could tweak to improve the aesthetic?

This! On nearly every big platform

Art is made by people and process! This is probably the best video essay on AI art I've seen. So many well made points, and incredibly thoughful and well considered throughout. Sad about product placement right at the end, but hey, we all gotta pay our bills somehow youtu.be/ZFitkz5VJvI?...

Congratulations to all this year's Lumen Prize Winners! @lumenprize.bsky.social We had a blast at Kunstsilo gallery in Kristiansand, Norway at the Awards Ceremony with Replica as a Finalist in the Music & Performance category. So many incredible projects & artists lumenprize.org/2025-winners

A fantastic week in Prague at the Art*VR Festival at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art showing REPLICA. 6 days of Mixed Reality performances plus the Zip-Scene conference

Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists (BIA) is to become a permanent fixture, with research showing that every €1 of public money invested in its pilot form, wider society received €1.39 in return.

Using the word CreaTech is like referring to your dinner as SpagBol

Most coverage focuses on Meta, but a surprising number of startups and established companies alike are making smart glasses too. Read our full roundup here: www.uploadvr.com/everyone-is-...

Huge congratulations to Displace Studios and @psiconlab.bsky.social on being selected as a FINALIST for the Lumen Prize! Their project, supported by The Space - Replica - combines Dance, Mixed Reality and Volumetric Capture, allowing a performer to duet with her digital double. buff.ly/Ykav0rQ

Thinking outside the box is part of the joy of creating a digital project but what if something unexpected pops up 👀? Join our brilliant speakers Harmeet Chagger-Khan, @psiconlab.bsky.social & @louiseorwin.bsky.social to learn how to face challenges head on. Book: bit.ly/47kAkHE #DigitalInnovation

Great podcast featuring Depthkit creator and Scatter founder James George on digital storytelling and the emergence and role of volumetric capture. open.spotify.com/episode/3EyY...

ECSTATIC to announce we're a FINALIST for the Lumen Prize! With over 2,200+ submissions from 71 countries, amongst the most boundary-pushing, conceptually rich, & technically innovative work in the world, we are truly honoured for REPLICA to be chosen! lumenprize.org/2025-perform...

FINALLY found an amazing duplicate file finder and remover with awesome control and advanced features. Cleared 37GB of duplicate photos from my PC. Full Pro version was worth every penny, but you can try for free. www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/duplicatecle...

ECSTATIC to announce we're a FINALIST for the Lumen Prize! With over 2,200+ submissions from 71 countries, amongst the most boundary-pushing, conceptually rich, & technically innovative work in the world, we are truly honoured for REPLICA to be chosen! lumenprize.org/2025-perform...

What is the future of color perception? Will we genetically engineer ourselves to see so much more color than we do now? Join me for this week's Inner Cosmos: "What is color? Part 2: Why royals wear purple" eagleman.com/podcast/116 #brain #color