Interact Updates
2024
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
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 live
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
Lighting The Way
Lighting The Way is our engagement programme for the Light Up Leicester 2022 festival. It involves workshops and artist commissions.
2021
3rd January 2022
Thingmy
The "Thingmy", a 3D-printable Micro:bit battery holder that can be used as the handheld "controller" part of a Micro:bit artThngs art installation
24th December 2021
Creative Technology Workshops
The latest Creative Technology workshop at GDUT. in China involved Scratch programming, computer drawing and Micro:bit controlled lighting.
3rd December 2021
Xmas in Leicester
Sean Clark has created some new a Xmas interactives to run on the large projector in Green Dragon Square.
20th October 2021
Interact Live @ The Exchange
We hosted a packed evening of live music and multimedia to help close the Interacxt Gallery pop-up exhibition.
3rd October 2021
Interact Gallery @ Design Season 2021
To help celebrate 10 years of Interact Digital Arts, we are hosting a pop-up exhibition on Granby Street.
16th July 2021
Images in the Style of
We are starting to publically release some of the teaching materials we use on our computer drawing courses.
14th July 2021
EVA London Conference
We presented some of our work with Micro Arts and FE Art Lab at EVA London 2021. Videos are now available.
28th June 2021
The Happiness Rocket
This was a great school project with Little Inventors. The 3D printable models are now available for download.
26th June 2021
GDUT Creative Technology
Our latest GDUT Creative Technology course resulted in some innovative designs for interactive lighting.
17th June 2021
Interact Live, LCB Depot, Leicester
Our first live event for 18 months takes place on Saturday 26th June. It will also be streamed online.