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UWE's Dr Francis and Dr shakara bring to you : Does AI silence marginalised voices? Does AI silence marginalised voices? Has it silenced yours? Is AI for you or is it against you? Are you skeptical? Are you confused? The news, the reels, the desperate appeals The Congo. Our beloved planet. What is responsible? What is right? What is best? The one true revolution is the evolution of consciousness Knowledge and intention raises consciousness Come raise your consciousness with Dr shakara Come help Dr Francis figure out exactly what AI is on about Together they will lead you through an empowerment session You'll learn how to keep your data safe from the 1% How you can use AI with precision You’ll contribute to research that centres you. Yes, the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house but we can build up our arsenal. "Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected." Yes, Art of War s***. This is when: 1st May, 11am - 3pm This is where: St Paul's Learning Centre, room x Nuh 'ungry belly so lunch provided, courtesy of Glenn's kitchen (Big up ✊ ) Only 20 spaces. 👉 Sign-up link in bio!

‘What Now, What Next?’ Building a Fair Creative Economy. How do we creative a future for creative work that is democratic, inclusive, and puts people and planet first? Fair Creative Economies (FaCE), a project led by researchers at UWE Bristol and the University of Bristol has been working with creatives in the West of England to explore this question. Come and join the FaCE team and an audience of policymakers, stakeholders, creatives, and academics as we consider how to build a hopeful future for creative work. Hear from creatives and experts, and learn about what the project has uncovered. 19th March 2026 Engine Shed, Bristol Free in-person event - registration required For more information & registration - link in bio!

Hosted by @uwebristol 's Global Majority Network and the Africa Strategy’s Social and Cultural Engagement strand, we are honoured to hear from Meskerem Assegued, distinguished curator, anthropologist, writer, and trailblazing African woman leader, for a special Black History Month talk. As Co-Founder and Director of Zoma Museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Meskerem has transformed the cultural and ecological landscape of Africa. Her visionary work integrates art, sustainability, and community, creating spaces that inspire and empower. ✨free online event✨ Thu 30 October 2025 16:00 - 17:30 👉Link in the bio!

This Friday, join us at @pervasivemediastudio for a retrospective of experimental digital art - from video games to music, computer viruses to documentaries - created for Container Magazine. Since 2020 Container has supported artists across the world to create artwork responding to themes of human relationships with technology. As the publication comes to a close this evening event will be a retrospective of these works in person, with a chance to talk with some of the creators. Container Magazine is an online platform for articles and artworks about technology, supporting lesser heard perspectives across the world. A MyWorld supported project. This event is part of @btfplus , check out the link in our bio for more information & lots of other DCRC activity!

Join us this Friday, 1-2pm for a @pervasivemediastudio lunchtime talk from @simon.moreton : Where is Home? Simon Moreton will reflect on his book, WHERE?, creative non-fiction about growing up in the countryside in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the processes of grief and reflection that helped him tackle questions of belonging and home, as well as thinking critically about how we imagine and represent the countryside. In 2017, Simon’s father fell suddenly ill and died, an event which sent Simon back to his childhood home in rural Shropshire. He wrote a memoir about the experience called WHERE? (published by Little Toller Books in 2021) which combines prose, illustration, photos, and archival texts. It weaves a gentle story that slips and slides in time and geography, creating connections across geographies, histories, families, times, and circumstance all to answer the question – ‘where are you from?’ 👉 Link in bio! (credit: Simon Moreton)

Join us on 3rd / 4th July at UWE Bristol's Frenchay campus for an immersive theatre experience by DCRC's @riklander , one half of the Duvet Brothers. 🔥Link in bio for more info & to book tickets🔥 For around two thousand years in ancient Greece annual initiations called the Eleusinian Mysteries were performed. Dedicated to the cult of Demeter and Persephone, this elaborate series of sacred rites and ritual preparations performed over ten days helped initiates overcome fear of death and achieve their best life. Ritual Virtual is an immersive theatre experience which employs video projections, robots and virtual reality to allow you to glimpse what it would have been like to be an initiate. Using the facilities and technology of The Bridge Studios at UWE’s Bristol Robotics Lab, you will pass through a baying mob to enter the temple where you will become a ritual participant. In ancient times the climax of the Mysteries was performed under the influence of hallucinogens. Now, through virtual reality, you will be immersed in the revelatory vision of Demeter’s quest.

This Friday (13th June 2025, 13:00-14:00), DCRC member @dr_shawn_hailemariam_sobers will explore why Small Anthropology is a powerful and necessary methodology for interdisciplinary research for the @pervasivemediastudio lunchtime talk. 👉 link in bio for more information. (Photo credit: Shawn Sobers)

Join us on 23rd May for The Body is Along for the Ride: constructing extended reality stories - a public lecture by @nonnydelapena facilitated by Professor Mandy Rose. 👉Link in bio!👈

You are warmly invited to 💫 Urban Hosts Closing Event 2024 & Season Drinks 💫 Tuesday 3rd Dec 2024 at 6:30 PM at Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol & UWE BA, Graphic Design Poster Exhibition. Looking forward to seeing you there! Space limited. 👉 Please book your spot (link in bio) Continuing with discussions on how neighbourhood change is catalysed through local relations, processes and policies, guests for this edition Maddy Longhurst from the Urban Agriculture Consortium and Lachlan Ayles of The Humanity Project, share perspectives on approaches to fostering and developing community, collaborative governance models. Alongside usual salon conversations as part of this closing edition and in partnership with @knowlewestmedia Centre (KWMC) a poster exhibit showcasing work from students on the BA Graphic Design, UWE, @typenowhere ) will be on display. The poster exhibition emerges from a two-day workshop, held by Teresa Dillon, Professor of City Futures and KWMC, Research Lead Julia Costa Carneiro. Taking the form of a series of digital posters that explore themes of liveability and neighborhood well-being within urban contexts. The exhibition reflects the students' interpretations of these concepts through the lens of graphic design, providing a visual commentary on the evolving dynamics of city life. The work created during the two-day workshop, offer a view on how poster sketches can engage with and communicate the complexities of contemporary urban living.

🌟Hybrid Images and the Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects🌟 A discussion of the evolving landscape of digital visual effects & their impact on how we see and interact with the world around us. 👉Online, 6-7pm, 20th Nov 2024 Link in bio to book your place! ____________________________________ This event will take the themes and arguments of Tom Livingstone’s new publication Hybrid Images and the Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects as a springboard for a discussion of the rapidly evolving landscape of digital visual effects and their impact on how we see and interact with the world around us. As Sean Cubitt notes in an endorsement of the book: “The contemporary literally comprises of multiple, simultaneous, often incompatible time and spaces. Tom Livingstone’s guide to the new visual effects is as fast and furious as the moving image, social and screen aesthetics that help us inhabit this increasingly alien world.” This event, hosted by UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre, will approach the latest multiplex extravaganzas with the deadly seriousness that spectacle culture requires. It will include an introduction to the book by its author and a response from Dr Nick Jones (University of York). The discussion session will cover the ubiquity of digital visual effects across visual cultures, the proliferation of new tools, technologies and image generation pipelines, and the latest super-scaled VFX-laden screen aesthetics, all considered in the light of recent film and media theory.

Earlier this year, we brought together folks often marginalised from climate spaces for a wayfinding mission. How can we as a collective of creative technologists enable a just transition for technology, in the most expansive sense? How can we enable life-affirming futures from our corner of the world? Delve into our beautiful zine capturing some of this journey, made by our brilliant residents @jasmineshaniceart and @fkasprince with the help of the participants. Link in bio! With new tools and processes that reflect the values of the world we want to build, we can collaboratively shift how we define, create, and use technology. We are so proud to have been a part of this project, working alongside our friends at @pervasivemediastudio . A big thank you to our funders @weareukri NERC & Engaging Environments for supporting this important work!

We are so proud to announce the £6m Immersive Arts consortium, to support UK artists and organisations working in immersive technology. This new scheme will give artists the opportunity to access training, mentoring, specialist facilities and vital funds. Led by DCRC's @veritymcintosh alongside a lineup of incredible partners: @w_shed @universityofbristol @thecentre_yganolfan @nerve_centre @crypticglasgow @crossoverlabs XR Diversity Initiative, @weareinnovateuk & @weareunltd Head to our bio for more info! Image: Performance of 'Circle' by Roxana Vilk, Vilk Collective and Squid Soup.