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2024

November 2024

R10 Electronic Media Studio

The new R10 Electronic Media Studio will be opening on 1st January 2025 at the LCB Depot in Leicester. View the website holding page for more information.

October 2024

Sue Gollifer Retrospective
Computer Arts Society Exhibition

This retrospective of artwork by Sue Gollifer features both screenprints and computer-generated images. It is now open at BCS Moorgate in London.

October 2024

Projects, Publications and Photographs

We've had a big sort out of our projects, publications and photographs pages. There's a great deal of interesting material in there.

October 2024

Interact @ LCB20

As part of the celebrations of 20 years of the LCB Depot in Leicester, we have compiled a summary of the many events we have run there over the years.

September 2024

Interact @ New Media Art Club

Interact is joining forces with New Media Art Club to provide digital art and digital making education and facilities at the LCB Depot in the heart of Leicester.

August 2024

Computer Art Road Trip 2024

This year's August trip to visit artists and collect artworks for the Computer Arts Archive lrd to some excellnt additions to the archive.

July 2024

$\HIA Wild Flower Camp$

HIA Wild Flower Camp

Higher Intelligence Agency's Wild Flower Camp took place in Leicestershire in July 2024. It provided an opportunity to showcase the latest version of Sean Clark's Colloquy artwork.

June - September 2024

CAS Members' Exhibition 2024
Computer Arts Society Exhibition

This year's Computer Arts Society Member's exhibition - co-curated by Interact's Sean Clark - is currently on show at the BCS in London and will be coming to Leicester's Phoenix in October.

March - September 2024

Alex May Algorithmic Photography
Computer Arts Society Exhibition

Alex May's algorithmic photography techniquecompresses elapsed time into single images. Exhibition in London and Leicester.

March 2024 - June 2024

Jack Tait Retrospective
Computer Arts Society Exhibition

An exhibition of images made by Jack Tait using his electromechanical drawing machines. Exhibition in Leicester and London.

March 2024

Micro:bit Champion 2024

Sean Clark has been made a Micro:bit Champion. He will use the opportunity to continue developing Interact's computer art education programme.

January 2024

New Generations

A project using Leiester's computer art history and the Computer Arts Archive to inspire contemporary artists and young people.

2023

25th November 2023

A Colloquy of Micro:bits

An interactive art experiment using Micro:bit micro-controllers installed at the Institute as part of Loughborough Lates.

November 2023 - January 2024

Leicester Computer Art Pioneers
Computer Arts Archve

This exhibition, researched and curated by Sean Clark, explores the early history of computer art in Leicester and Leicestershire.

Juiy 2023

Computer Arts Society Members' Show 2023
Computer Arts Society

The first Computer Arts Society Members' Shjow held a BCS Moorgate in London.

May/June 2023

Quantel Paintbox Exhibition
Computer Arts Society

The Quantel Paintbox was an early computer graphics and video tool that rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s.

7th April - 30th June 2023

Place and Memory at Phoenix, Leicester

Place and Memory is an exhibition that explores 60 years of activity at Phoenix in Leicester.

9th March 2023

Paul Brown Retrospective
Computer Arts Society

Interact has been working with the Computer Arts Society to present a retrospective of artwork by Paul Brown at the BCS in London. It will be on show until the end of June 2023.

5th March 2023

Billion o'Clock Live Event

Billion o'Clock plus guests live at Ole Moses Cabin in Leicester on the 5th March 2023. Interact's Sean Clark contributed sound and visuals.

5th January - 5th March 2023

Prisms of Influence: Echoes from the Colour in the Code

The Prisms of Influence exhibition, featuring work by Sean Clark, is currently taking place at the Mosman Art Gallery in Sydney in support of Ernest Edmond's solo exhibition.

January 2023

Digital Art Month 2023

Digital Art Month at the LCB Depot is now an established part of Leicester's digital art scene, Sean Clark contributed some new work in progress to the exhibition at LCB.

2022

18th November 2022

Homeostasis - Stephen Scrivener

We have been working with Stephen Scrivener to recreate his pioneering early 1970s interactive artwork, Homeostasis. The work will be exhibited un Sydney in early 2023.

16th November 2022

Ernest Edmonds at 80

An exhibition of work by pioneering computer artist Ernest Edmonds opened on the 16th of November at the British Computer Society, London and will remain on show until the end of January 2023.

4th July 2022

EVA London 2022

Held annually in July, EVA London is one of the international Electronic Visualisation & the Arts conferences. This year's EVA London runs from the 4th until the 8th July 2022.

2nd July 2022

billion o'clock's debut album, 'The Grief Whole' was released in the summer of 2021 on experimental cassette imprint Solium Records. One year on, the noise/rap collective took over LCB Depot for a unique anniversary celebration.

28th April 2022

Leicester Digital Artists Talk (on YouTube)

Online presentations from Ernest Edmonds, Stephen Scrivener, Stephen Bell, Sean Clark and Dave Everitt. Part of the Leicester Digital Artists Pioneers project.

8th April 2022

Monobloc @ Beta X

As part of the Beta X project at 72 Church Gate, Leicester members of Monobloc organised a range of digital arts activities that tplace in March and April 2022.

8th April 2022

Church Gate Soundscape (on YouTube)

A Soundscape for Church Gate is an atmospheric audio experience that charts the story of this historic street from the 15th Century through to the present day.

8th April 2022

Interact Live @ Beta X

Join us at Beta X, Leicester's newest arts venue, for the launch of the Church Gate soundscape by Whispered Tales followed by live electronic music and visuals from R10 and Swehttam.

4th - 22nd April 2022

Leicester Digital Art Pioneers Pt2

Leicester and Leicestershire have an important role in the development of digital and computational art. Part 2 of the exhibition features work by Stephen Scrivener and Stephen Bell.

9th - 20th March 2022

Leicester Digital Art Pioneers

Lighting The Way is our engagement programme for the Light Up Leicester 2022 festival. It involves workshops and artist commissions.

3rd - 6th March 2022

The Light Café

During the Light Up Leicester 2022 festival, 72 Church Gate will become The Light Café - a venue showing light works by locally-based artists Andy Harper & Leonie DuBarry-Gurr, Joe Moran, Paul Mazzitelli & Tony Coleman, and Sean Clark.

7th February 2022

Cybernetic Ecology Symposium

Join artists Genetic Moo and authors Stephan Harding and Jeremy Lent for a screening of Animate Earth, followed by a panel discussion about art, ecology, and connectedness hosted by artist/researcher Sean Clark.

7th February 2022