🎮✨ Biome Collective & Arcadia present: Big Telly Jam ✨🎮
A one-day collaborative workshop for artists + game designers to explore creative technology, digital art & immersive experiences.
Curious about creative tech?
Interested in playful media?
Got an idea you want to test?
Big Telly Jam is a friendly, supportive space to experiment, collaborate, and learn, no experience needed!
Expect:
🎥 Cool tech demos
🧠 Fun warm-ups + idea development
🛠 Art & Craft prototyping
🎤 End-of-day pitches (with a chance to win a cash prize!)
Limited paid participation spots available for those who need support on first come first served basis.
📍 CoSTAR Realtime Lab (Big Real), Water’s Edge, Dundee
🗓 Wednesday 6th May | 9:30am–5pm
🔗 Tickets: link in bio
👥 Emergent artists, game designers and creative technologists from across Scotland
🤝 Partners:
CoSTAR Realtime Lab - @costarnetwork
Abertay University - @abertayuni
Creative Scotland - @creativescots
Immersive Arts UK - @immersivearts_uk
UNESCO City of Design Dundee - @designdundee
Big Telly Jam is supported from The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
Graphic Design - @tomdemajo
Happy to share that we have secured the Immersive Arts Fund for The Game - an immersive sound walking artwork that explores football as lived culture rather than stadium spectacle. It focuses on memory, ritual, and place, using sound to connect audiences with Dundee’s social and cultural fabric.
Project details: /projects/the-game/
BIG NEWS 🗞️
Absolutely thrilled to have been invited to curate a V&A Late as part of @londongamesfest . Big thanks to @holly_gramazio for putting me forward for the job!
Come along this Friday (27 March) to V&A South Kensington to play / watch / sing / dance / queue / interact with 10 different works that are linked together by their intrinsic connection to performance.
If you know me, you know my love for performance and games go hand in hand so curating something that brings the two together has been an absolute joy. Thank you to my co-curator @k_vo_yo for all the support and to the incredible production team (especially Faunsia) at the V&A.
The event is free and unticketed so just come along and join me to play and be silly in world’s largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design (MADNESS)
Full programme linked in bio 🔗
Images:
Image 1 - Cover artwork, photo credit @mikecooktookthis
Image 2 - Sex with Friends by @freelives_official
Image 3 - The Line is the Game by @janarom
Image 4 - @slaystationexp , created by @velvetcaveat
Image 5 - Thank Goodness You’re Here! by @coalsupper
Image 6 - Carboot Casino by @tigershungry featuring @vtwentyone ’s “Sausages Game”
Image 7 - Robot Karaoke by @jamieabrew
Image 8 - My name in the programme!!
Currently on a beautiful trip with @rhonajack_ around Ireland funded by @creativescots ‘Go, See, Share’ fund. We’re visiting artist ran spaces and projects to gain more knowledge about various models in the hopes to start something of our own in Dundee in the future!
We’ve visited 3 projects already - @brownmountaindiamond , @muinebheagarts and @guesthouse_collective . They’ve all been incredibly welcoming, inspiring and so generous with their time.
Posting highlights on our Instagram stories, which you can see in the Ireland highlight pinned on my profile.
We’re heading to Limerick then Galway in the next couple days!
TODAYS THE DAY
come along to @kooooonce and I’s debut performance of PAUSE PLAY at @a_mazefest ⏯️
manipulate us with music - watch us twist and squirm for 45 mins of the best dancing you will ever see in your life
18.15 KUPPELHALLE BE THERE
side note: I’m very excited to be returning to performance, something I’ve not done since graduating art school in 2017 - this artist is out of early retirement!! So lucky to have found a creative partner like @kooooonce who is just as enthusiastic about being silly as me 🫶
(our stunning profile picture (pic 2) is a selfie we took a couple of days after we first met in Toronto last year. It was a one off bereal where we couldn’t see the front camera but we instantly slayed together)
Downpour is launching March 6th 2024!
It’s an app for making weird games and websites on your phone - quickly, easily, intuitively ☔️
🔗Add photos, drawings & text to create custom pages - then link them together
💻 No coding involved
🖌️ V Customisable
I’ve been working on it as a creative producer since the end of last year, it’s been so fun working with @vtwentyone and getting creative making my own downpour games (pictured photos 2 - 5)
If you’re an artist, illustrator, game designer or creative who’d like to try out downpour before launch DM or email me. Also reach out for press info and media requests!
✉️ susie at downpour dot limited
For more info, press kit and launch sign ups go to: downpour.games
