Science, digital and technology

A global open-call for new forms of architecture in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and Sir David Adjaye OBE.

In mid-January 2019, British Council launched the first edition of SPARK: The Science and Art of Creativity festival, taking place at Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts in Hong Kong. 

SPARK celebrates creativity across the arts, sciences and education, and offers a platform for cultural exchange between the UK and Hong Kong. With more than 30 events over three days and over 50 creative and education partners from the UK and Hong Kong, SPARK provided a series of interactive experiences, provocative performances, stimulating talks and other innovative happenings.

Expo 2020 Dubai is seeking a creative team or organisation to create an "iconic signature production" to be performed daily for an anticipated audience of 25 million Expo visitors over six months, comprising dance, music, sound, digital art and / or projection with the working title Beyond Horizons. Expo 2020 Dubai takes place 20 October 2020 to 10 April 2021.

SPARE PARTS, from 28 February to 12 May, is the second exhibition season from the new Science Gallery London at King’s College London in London Bridge. The free exhibition and accompanying events programme will explore the art, science, ethics and technology that enables human repair and alteration.

Geotourist partners with 9 English DMOs and organisations to deliver digital storytelling experience.

Award winning GPS-audio tour brand, Geotourist, is delighted to announce the launch of phase one of Epic England, a series of audio tours that ties together the history, geography, myths and legends of England on one audio-mapping platform for the first time – and it’s free for users.

HENI Talks, led by former Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture of London, Munira Mirza, has won Apollo Magazine's Digital Innovation of the Year 2018.

The web platform, launched in April 2018, curates and hosts an ongoing series of video talks from experts in their field on art history across all disciplines. Talks have been hosted by people like Damien Hirst, Tristram Hunt from V&A, Elena Crippa from Tate, Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Serpentine, and Ralph Rugoff of the Hayward Gallery.

The Department of International Trade (DIT) will be taking an interactive/immersive mission in March 2019 to South by Southwest (SXSW), the leading industry and public event for music, film, interactive and tech.

The ten-day show, based in Austin, Texas, is set to attract around 300,000 visitors between 8-17 March 2019.

From entrepreneurs and investors to cutting edge digital disruptors, it will give organisations the chance to demonstrate their creativity, expertise, technology and innovation while making contacts to foster business development and professional growth.

Jeremy Wright, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), spoke about the "calling card" of creativity at the Creative Industries Federation International Summit on 9 October 2018.

Among the praise he gave were statistics on UK recording artists acounting for 8 of the top 10 artist albums in 2017, UK film earning a sixth of total film revenue worldwide and being the largest publisher of physical books in the world.

From today, all registered users will be able to use a number of new features.

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One of the highlights of the Liverpool 2018 programme, a visual and aural immersive installation filling the vast space of Toxteth Reservoir, is a collboration between UK and Indonesian artists.

Aurora by Invisible Flock, co-comissioned with FACT in Liverpool, sees audiences through ice caves, rainforests and monsoons, depicting the beauty and power of the planet's most previous resource, water.