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THIS SATURDAY: As part of Soft Bodies, Cold Machines, we are hosting an afternoon of talks and performances. Artist Ambie Drew will present the research and creative process behind the exhibition, followed by theorist Alex Quicho’s Girlstack Performance Lecture, exploring the “Girl” as a technological and social construct through theory and speculation. Throughout the event, sound artist and performer Giuli Dal Lago will move through the space as Jennifer, a latex-masked doll character, embodying themes of depersonalisation, service and the objectified body explored within the exhibition.⁠ ⁠ Ambie Drew (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Worcester. Her practice interrogates how digital consumerism and artificial intelligence shape the construction of gender and female identity online. Working across moving image, sculptural installation, and text, Ambie adopts a hyperfeminised alter ego to explore the consequences of living in a heavily mediated world where the physical and digital exist in constant flux. Incorporating obsolete technologies, her work reflects on how intimacy, memory, and reality are entangled with internet culture and machine-driven desire.⁠ ⁠ Alex Quicho is a theorist based in London. Her practice incorporates critical writing, performative lectures, and moving images to develop novel ways of understanding life within technological systems. She is the author of Girl Intelligence (2025, Aksioma) and Small Gods (2021, Zero Books). ⁠ ⁠ Giuli Dal Lago is a London-based sound artist and performer who works at the intersection of sound and performance art. Giuli reclaims the body as a site of political struggle—a space for advocating gender identity and advancing queer celebration and liberation.⁠ ⁠ 🕒 3pm | Sat 16 May 2026⁠ 📍arebyte Digital Art Centre, Camden⁠ 🎟️ Free Entry | Book in advance⁠ 🔗Link in bio⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Soft Bodies, Cold Machines⁠ 🗓Exhibition 17 Apr -2 Aug | Wed - Sun, 12- 6pm ⁠ 📍 arebyte Digital Art Centre, 25-27 Camden Road, London NW1 9LN ⁠ 🎟️ Free Entry⁠ 🗓 Exhibition Tour: 20 Jun 3pm⁠

We're hiring! arebyte is looking for a freelance Exhibition Producer to support the delivery of its next exhibition at the Digital Art Centre in London, opening in September 2026.⁠ ⁠ You’ll work closely with the Head of Programme and Technical Manager to coordinate production, fabrication, logistics, installation, and budgets from planning through to opening.⁠ ⁠ We’re looking for an experienced producer with strong organisational skills, experience working with fabricators and technical teams, and an interest in digital art and contemporary exhibition-making.⁠ ⁠ Read more & apply via link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 📩 Apply by: 27 May 2026, 11:59pm⁠ ⏳ Freelance contract: 15-18 project days⁠ 📍 Based in London⁠ 📅 Start Date: June 2026 (schedule TBD)⁠ 🔗 Link in bio⁠ ⁠ #JobOpportunity #ExhibitionProducer #DigitalArt #ArtsJobs #ContemporaryArt #NewMediaArt #ProductionManager⁠

Join artist Ambie Drew [@ambiedrew ] and theorist Alex Quicho [@amfq ] for an afternoon of talks and performance at arebyte Digital Art Centre, alongside sound artist and performer, Giuli Dal Lago [@apri_goat ]. ⁠ ⁠ 🕒 3pm | Sat 16 May 2026⁠ 📍arebyte Digital Art Centre, Camden⁠ 🎟️ Free Entry | Book in advance⁠ 🔗Link in bio⁠ ⁠ Ambie Drew (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Worcester. Her practice interrogates how digital consumerism and artificial intelligence shape the construction of gender and female identity online. Working across moving image, sculptural installation, and text, Ambie adopts a hyperfeminised alter ego to explore the consequences of living in a heavily mediated world where the physical and digital exist in constant flux. Incorporating obsolete technologies, her work reflects on how intimacy, memory, and reality are entangled with internet culture and machine-driven desire.⁠ ⁠ Alex Quicho is a theorist based in London. Her practice incorporates critical writing, performative lectures, and moving images to develop novel ways of understanding life within technological systems. She is the author of Girl Intelligence (2025, Aksioma) and Small Gods (2021, Zero Books). ⁠ ⁠ Giuli Dal Lago is a London-based sound artist and performer who works at the intersection of sound and performance art. Giuli reclaims the body as a site of political struggle—a space for advocating gender identity and advancing queer celebration and liberation.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ This event is part of the public programme for Soft Bodies, Cold Machines, a solo exhibition by Ambie Drew, exploring what it means to grow up online in a world shaped by targeted advertising and AI-generated imagery through interactive installations and film.⁠ ⁠ 🗓Exhibition 17 Apr -2 Aug | Wed - Sun, 12- 6pm ⁠ 📍 arebyte Digital Art Centre, 25-27 Camden Road, London NW1 9LN ⁠ 🎟️ Free Entry⁠ 🗓 Exhibition Tour: 20 Jun 3pm⁠ 🔗Link in bio⁠ ⁠ #digitalCulture #emergingartist #digitalArt #AI #nostalgia #girlhood ⁠#performanceart ⁠

📢 OPEN CALL: Recoding Realities – a new Helsinki–London residency exchange for artists working with media and technology!⁠ ⁠ Are you a Finland-based artist ready to spend October 2026 in London? Four weeks of research, mentoring and dialogue with the UK digital art scene at @arebyte Digital Art Centre.⁠ ⁠ The residency invites socially and politically engaged practices that ask: how do we reimagine more equitable worlds where humans have agency over technology and care for their environments?⁠ ⁠ What's offered: ⁠ 4 weeks accommodation in London + travel ⁠ Studio access at arebyte ⁠ €1,500 artist fee + production support ⁠ Mentoring, networking and a public presentation⁠ ⁠ A joint initiative by @mcult.helsinki @arebyte @fininst_uk_ireland ⁠ ⁠ 🗓 Apply by 30 May 2026, 23:59 (UTC+3)⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Full call & application form at M-Cult’s bio! ⁠ ⁠ #opencall #recodingrealities #artistresidency #mcult #arebyte #finnishinstituteUK ⁠

Worldbuilding curator Helen Starr [@themechatroniclibrary ] shares her take on Soft Bodies, Cold Machines by Ambie Drew [@ambiedrew ]. ⁠ ⁠ Soft Bodies, Cold Machines is a digital art exhibition exploring AI, internet culture, beauty standards, and female identity through interactive installations and immersive two-channel film.⁠ ⁠ Come and experience it for yourself at arebyte Digital Art Centre, London.⁠ ⁠ 🗓Exhibition 17 Apr -2 Aug | Wed - Sun, 12- 6pm ⁠ 📍 arebyte Digital Art Centre, 25-27 Camden Road, London NW1 9LN ⁠ 🎟️ Free Entry⁠ 🗓 Exhibition Tours: 6 May 7pm | 20 Jun 3pm⁠ 🔗Link in bio⁠ ⁠ #digitalCulture #emergingartist #digitalArt #AI #nostalgia ⁠

Soft Bodies, Cold Machines is now open at arebyte Digital Art Centre, a solo exhibition by Ambie Drew [@ambiedrew ].⁠ ⁠ Step into an in-between immersive world that feels both familiar and unsettling. A teenage girl’s fantasy bedroom unfolds as a hyper-feminised nostalgic space — pink, glossy, and uncanny — a metaphor for today’s internet culture.⁠ ⁠ A distorted Sailor Moon transformation loops on a pink television, surrounded by cutesy trinkets, glowing screens and AI-generated imagery, reflecting a world where girlhood is shaped by targeted beauty ads, and identity is caught between how we see ourselves and how we are seen online.⁠ ⁠ Across the galleries, a luminous vanity altar reveals a ‘girl’ trapped in the reflective surface; a ringing rotary phone invites you into a conversation, drawing you into Ambie’s digitised memories. Together, they trace a world where identity and desire become entangled, and where the content we consume begins to consume us.⁠ ⁠ 🗓Exhibition 17 Apr -2 Aug | Wed - Sun, 12- 6pm ⁠ 📍 arebyte Digital Art Centre, 25-27 Camden Road, NW1 9LN ⁠ 🎟️ Free Entry⁠ 🗓 Exhibition Tours: 6 May 7pm | 20 Jun 3pm⁠ 🔗Link in bio⁠ Photo credits: @maxcolson @hydardewachi ⁠ #digitalCulture #emergingartist #digitalArt #AI #nostalgia #bodydysmorphia #girlhood #ninetiesbaby

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate the opening of Soft Bodies, Cold Machines by Ambie Drew [@ambiedrew ]! Soft Bodies, Cold Machines is now open at arebyte Digital Art Centre till 2 Aug, Wed-Sun 12pm-6pm

This Thu 16 Apr 6:30pm: Opening of Soft Bodies, Cold Machines by Ambie Drew [@ambiedrew ]. We look forward to welcoming you! Soft Bodies, Cold Machines is part of Hotel Generation, arebyte’s annual artist development programme supporting emerging UK digital artists through mentoring and industry-focused training. Each year, one participant is selected by a panel of sector experts to develop a solo exhibition at arebyte Digital Art Centre. The 2025 edition was awarded to Ambie Drew [@ambiedrew ]. During the development programme (Apr–Jun 2025), Ambie worked with mentor Zaiba Jabbar (Curator & Founder, HERVISIONS, London) [@zaibajabbar @hervisions_ ]to develop her exhibition proposal. Following selection by the 2025 judging panel (Hannah Andrews, Former Director of Digital Innovation in the Arts, British Council, London, Annka Kultys, Founder & CEO, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, William Latham, Professor, Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, Maitreyi Maheshwari, Head of Programmes, FACT Liverpool, Nimrod Vardi, Trustee & Founder, arebyte, London), Ambie went on to develop Soft Bodies, Cold Machines, curated by Pita Arreola, opening next week at arebyte Digital Art Centre. 2025 Artists Ambie Drew (Midlands) — Winner Lucy Ellis (South East England) Yashika Goel (South East England) Emir Johnston (North England) 2025 Judging Panel Hannah Andrews, Former Director of Digital Innovation in the Arts, British Council, London Annka Kultys, Founder & CEO, Annka Kultys Gallery, London William Latham, Professor, Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London Maitreyi Maheshwari, Head of Programmes, FACT Liverpool Nimrod Vardi, Trustee & Founder, arebyte, London 🎉 Opening Party: Thu 16 Apr 2026, 6.30pm⁠ 🎟️ Free RSVP via link in bio⁠ 🗓Exhibition 17 Apr -2 Aug | Wed - Sun, 12- 6pm 🗓 Exhibition Tours: 6 May 7pm | 20 Jun 3pm 📍 arebyte Digital Art Centre, 25-27 Camden Rd, NW1 9LN Video by Titash Sen [@unzeroed ] #digitalCulture #emergingartist #digitalArt #AI #nostalgia bodydysmorphia girlhood ninetiesbaby

OPENING NEXT WEEK: Hyper-feminine aesthetics, the capitalist fetish for cuteness, and digital consumerism - where identity is performed and consumed. Curator Pita Arreola [@[pitarreola] talks us through Ambie Drew’s upcoming exhibition at arebyte Digital Art Centre, Soft Bodies Cold Machines. Ambie Drew is a hyper-feminised constructed alter ego developed by the artist to interrogate online identity, digital consumerism and gender. Within a fluid space between avatar and archive, reality and simulation, Ambie is both subject and object, presenting as a glossy vessel shaped by the aesthetics of internet girlhood. 🎉 Opening Party: Thu 16 Apr 2026, 6.30pm⁠ 🎟️ Free RSVP via link in bio⁠ 🗓Exhibition 17 Apr -2 Aug | Wed - Sun, 12- 6pm 🗓 Exhibition Tours: 6 May 7pm | 20 Jun 3pm 📍 arebyte Digital Art Centre, 25-27 Camden Road, NW1 9LN #digitalCulture #emergingartist #digitalArt #AI #nostalgia

How does digital culture shape female identity and growing up online?⁠ ⁠ arebyte presents Soft Bodies, Cold Machines, a solo exhibition by artist Ambie Drew [@ambiedrew ] ⁠ ⁠ Through newly commissioned interactive installations and film, the artist interrogates what it means to grow up online in a world shaped by targeted advertising and AI-generated imagery, confronting the impossibility of disentangling oneself from our curated digital persona.⁠ ⁠ To create this new body of work, Ambie purchased and tested popular beauty gadgets promoted to her through social media ads. The artworks that emerge from this process reflect both the physical and psychological impact of living amongst a constant stream of images and consumption.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ 🎉 Opening Party: Thu 16 Apr 2026, 6.30pm⁠ 🎟️ Free RSVP via link in bio⁠ 🗓Exhibition 17 Apr -2 Aug | Wed - Sun, 12- 6pm ⁠ 🗓 Exhibition Tour: 6 May 7pm | 20 June 3pm⁠ 📍 arebyte Digital Art Centre, 25-27 Camden Road, NW1 9LN ⁠ Video editing @unzeroed Sound design @bara.n0ha ⁠ #digitalCulture #emergingartist #digitalArt #AI #nostalgia #bodydysmorphia #girlhood #ninetiesbaby⁠

Introducing our next exhibiting artist Ambie Drew [@ambiedrew ]⁠ ⁠ Ambie Drew (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Worcester. Her practice interrogates how digital consumerism and artificial intelligence shape the construction of gender and female identity online. Working across moving image, sculptural installation, and text, Ambie adopts a hyper-feminised alter ego to explore the consequences of living in a heavily mediated world where the physical and digital exist in constant flux. Incorporating obsolete technologies, her work reflects on how intimacy, memory, and reality are entangled with internet culture and machine-driven desire.⁠ ⁠ Ambie Drew’s upcoming solo show at arebyte Digital Art Centre, Soft Bodies Cold Machines presents a continuum of her previous work that interrogates the capitalist fetish for cuteness.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ 🎉 Opening Party: Thu 16 Apr 2026, 6.30pm⁠ 🎟️ Free RSVP via link in bio⁠ 🗓Exhibition 17 Apr -2 Aug | Wed - Sun, 12- 6pm ⁠ 📍 arebyte Digital Art Centre, 25-27 Camden Road, NW1 9LN ⁠ ⁠ #emergingartist #digitalArt #AI #nostalgia #bodydysmorphia⁠

Internet girlhood - when your identity becomes part of the algorithm.⁠ ⁠ 𝙎𝙤𝙛𝙩 𝘽𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙨, 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 by Ambie Drew [@ambiedrew ].⁠ ⁠ Stay tuned for more about our upcoming exhibition - the final chapter of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗹, our 2023–2026 curatorial programme, an exploration of the human condition in a technologically shaped world.⁠ ⁠ 🗓 Exhibition 17 Apr -2 Aug Wed - Sun, 12- 6pm ⁠ 📍 arebyte Digital Art Centre, 25-27 Camden Road, NW1 9LN ⁠ ⁠ #emergingartist #digitalArt #AI #nostalgia #bodydysmorphia⁠