Radical Immersions Conference

This conference was organised by the Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities and looked at the impact new (and not so new) technologies are having on the ways art is produced and received by audiences. Speakers also explored concepts …

The Internet as a Performance Medium
In Blog
‘Art is presented on the Internet as a specific kind of reality: as a working process, or even life process, taking place in the real, offline world’ (Groys 2018, p.174) Live performance has migrated online since theatres closed in March 2020. […]
To Be A Machine by Dead Centre
In Blog
They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Transhumanists disagree with the first one. This Silicon Valley sub-culture treat death as a disease that can be cured if humans learnt to update our wetware for purely artificial models. In […]
Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – Mangrove
In Blog
We mustn't be victims, but protagonists of our own story I want this line spray painted across every government briefing and policy document relating to modern race and racism. It feels like it could be spoken by a Spiked contrarian or conservative […]
Alternatives to the Academic Essay
In Blog
During lockdown I was amazed at the quality of online work the students produced for the performative writing module I teach at Rose Bruford, so much so that I and the programme directors have decided to make a permanent change to the assessments so […]
Crave at Chichester Festival
In Blog
I think this was the first show I bought a ticket for in lockdown. It was worth the wait (although I'm still much more interested in theatre produced for the medium of the internet than shows which are live streamed - it's always second best). […]