Bristol Arts Channel

Bristol Arts Channel was a city-wide collaboration between arts organisations that wanted to offer a lockdown lifeline for their audiences missing the buzz and community of Bristol’s brilliant arts scene.

Dark Land Light House VR

Tanuja Amarasuriya & Timothy X Atack (Sleepdogs)

There’s a lighthouse orbiting a Dark Land, in the depths of space. A lone Keeper is tasked with ensuring the beam stays lit, watching out for the many souls on passing interstellar ships; warning them from the edges of the Dark Land.

Trans Inclusion Consultancy

Joanna Órla Bligh

The first of its kind, this pilot project aims to identify, address and find strategies to reduce inclusion barriers for trans* and neurodivergent creatives, who are underrepresented within the creative tech cluster in the South West.

Storyhaven

Gareth Osborne

Deep into Earth’s next ice age, stories have become the fuel for life…Storyhaven is a table-top reading and roleplay game for families to play together over three weeks at home, in which children co-create the narrative with their parents and live-streamed immersive theatre sessions with an actor bring their storytelling to life.

Rabbit Holes

Penny Hay, Ian Forrester & James Cook

Rabbit Holes Collective involves a group of artists and creative professionals exploring adaptive podcasting to create unique content and invite (especially young) people to metaphorically ‘fall down a rabbit hole’ to connect more deeply with nature.

Elements

Free Ice Cream & Play:Disrupt

Elements is a community mapping platform that aims to make complex neighbourhood systems accessible. Designed and created by Play:Disrupt and Free Ice Cream, both of whom grew from street games, play is at the heart of the project.

Celestial

Celestial see themselves as the natural successor to fireworks, as they use drones for lightshows, using each drone as a pixel to illuminate the night sky.

Ambient Lit x Rising Arts

Rising Arts Agency ran a series of workshops to explore equitable practice in creative tech, with participants from underrepresented voices in the industry.

Bonnie Binary

An experimental immersive sensory experience, Bonnie Binary believes in the healing power of immersive musical experience. We aim to bring the calming sounds and joyful experience of making music together to a wider audience for entertainment, positive mood, and relaxation.

Compound

Alex Witty

Compound takes motorsport industry waste and converts it into recycled, fashionable footwear. Using discarded Formula 1 tyres and shredding them to create a unique rubber filament to 3D print shoe soles. Saving F1 tyres from the incinerator and making some fire kicks in the process.

Dhaqan Collective

Ayan and Fozia

The dhaqan collective is a feminist art collective of Somali women, centering the voices of womxn and elders in our community, and privileging co-creation and collaboration.

The Power Of Live

Nick Young

During this project Nick will be looking at how creative use of technology can be used to bring audiences, theatre & live art together in new ways.

Echoborg Goes Ethical

Rik Lander

'I am Echoborg' is a live show created afresh each time by an audience in conversation with an artificial intelligence. Writer, Rik Lander and conversational AI developer, Phil D Hall has been evolving it since 2016.

WearMyWardrobeOut

WearMyWardrobeOut is a circular fashion-as-a-service brand. Who handpick, rent, repair, upcycle and alter existing fashion items at their Bristol based Rent and Repair Studio. Their mission is to give everyone access to an affordable wardrobe experience by only wearing clothes already in existence and by extending the life of clothes for rental and re-wear.

Ghost Orchid

Agapanthus Productions is a start-up working at the intersection between creative technology, live performance, interactive experiences, audio and film. The Trailblazer funding will allow Agapanthus Productions to expand on an existing project, Ghost Orchid.

Inclusive Language

Inclued AI

Inclued AI want to create an interactive, inclusive language tool to allow users to discover inclusive word alternatives. Inclued AI is a companion software that helps content creators identify bias as it happens.

Unpleasantville

Unpleasantville is creating a mixed format, geo-located ‘alternative’ audio walking tour of Bath, using a mixture of local music and spoken word content, with an emphasis on promoting the work of emerging acts.

Alternative Augmented Space

Lilly Parr and Mitchell Wilson

The aim of this project is to explore the affordances of augmented reality in carving out hybrid spaces for different pockets of underrepresented communities across Bristol and Bath.

Tangle

Tangle’s long-term vision is to become a hub, lab, and performance scratch space where they will collaborate with the city's creatives and technologists to produce a broad spectrum of immersive experiences.

Unlock Bath

Echo Games CIC

Unlock Bath is a ‘games for a purpose’ heritage project that invites multiple museums across the region to co-design a digital escape room experience.

EBC Day School

EBC Day Scool offers artists a shared studio space alongside monthly education days with guest artists, support and advice for work and careers, and other professional development opportunities, community projects and social occasions.

SLEEC

SLEEC, a survivor-led and survivor-centred support and educational platform, and Tessa Ratuszynksa a documentary maker and VR producer are working in tandem on two R&D storysharing projects

Amy Spencer

Dr Amy Spencer a post-doctoral research assistant and writer. She is currently in the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries at Bath Spa University, working on the Amplified Publishing strand of Bristol+Bath Creative R+D.

Eleanor Scott

Eleanor Scott is a doctoral researcher within Loughborough University's School of Design and Creative Arts (SDCA), in collaboration with the Business of Fashion Textiles and Technology (BFTT).

Hakan Satiroglu

Hakan Satiroglu is a PhD research student and an Associate Lecturer in Innovation Management at Bath Business School.

Kadian A Gosler

With over 17 years of academic and professional experience in the Intimate Apparel field, PhD candidate Kadian A Gosler has turned her sights to the fields' future in smart lingerie.

Kate Valentine

Kate Valentine is a director working in theatre and audio drama. Her PhD by Creative Practice is 'Dual Carriageway: Live performance and digital storytelling, linking communities along the Great North Road.'

Kit Braybrooke

Dr. Kit Braybrooke🧞‍♀️ [1] is an ethnographer and designer whose work explores intersections of culture, technology and social/ecological justice.

Lauren England

Dr Lauren England is a Baxter Fellow in Creative Economies at the University of Dundee. Her research explores creative ecologies in both Global North and Global South contexts, with a focus on the craft sector.

Marie Stenton

Marie is currently a practice-based PhD researcher at London College of Fashion exploring alternative routes to a circular economy through the potential of regenerated protein fibres for a quality textiles market.

Myles-Jay Linton

Myles is a psychologist and Vice Chancellor’s Fellow (University of Bristol) undertaking research into young peoples’ mental health. His artwork explores the connection between bodies and emotions, and his community work centres the experiences of queer people of colour in Bristol.

Olivia Gable

Dr Olivia Gable is a Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation and an independent researcher with primary interests in cultural work, equality and inclusion and music.

Paris Selinas

Paris Selinas is a trans-disciplinary artist, designer, and social researcher, currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Bristol.

Rob Eagle

As a digital artist, documentary film-maker and practice-based PhD researcher at UWE Bristol, Rob straddles the worlds of arts practice and academia.

Verity McIntosh

Verity is a Senior Lecturer, researcher and creative producer. She leads UWE Bristol’s pioneering master’s course in Virtual and Extended Realities.

Yvonne Ntiamoah

Yvonne is a PhD Researcher in the area of “The process of decolonising the fashion design curriculum in Ghana, and its consequences for global fashion design education”.

Will Barnes

Will Barnes is a Geography PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London interested in the interrelationship of creative work, home life, the COVID-19 lockdown, and wellbeing.