Digital Cultures Research Centre news

• Cary Grant festival returns to Bristol

  17/11/2022

  Bristol’s biennial Cary Grant Comes Home festival will focus on the theme ‘Class’ when it presents its fifth edition in and around the Hollywood star’s birth city from 18 to 20 November this year. 

• Success for inaugural Bristol and Bath Screen Summit

  03/11/2022

• Bristol and Bath inaugural Screen Summit to highlight industry's success and potential

  20/10/2022

  <p>Bristol and Bath&rsquo;s first ever Screen Summit, showcasing the city region as a leading global production community, takes place in Bristol next month (2 and 3 November).</p>

• Bristol's screen industry sees rapid growth, according to new research from UWE Bristol

  17/05/2022 The screen industry in Bristol is booming, with turnover increasing by more than 100% in the last five years, according to new research from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), but more could still be done to further boost its development and expansion.

• Channel 4 and Bristol UNESCO City of Film launch TV Drama New Writers Scheme to develop South West talent

  16/05/2022 Channel 4 and partners, including UWE Bristol, are launching a new scheme designed to identify and support emerging TV drama writers in the West and South West of England.

• AR installation challenges ideas about fashion and gender at Sheffield Doc/Fest

  30/05/2019

  PhD researcher Rob Eagle, based at the Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC) at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), has developed an augmented reality (AR) wardrobe to challenge our ideas about fashion and identity and introduce audience-members to the lived experiences of Bristolian genderqueer and non-binary people.

• Bristol and Bath to lead the way in inclusive innovation and growth

  07/09/2018

  A collaboration between universities and businesses in the creative technology sector is to receive a multi-million pound investment from the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Creative Industries | Clusters Programme, to support, connect and amplify the brilliant work that takes place in the region.

• £6.5m project aims to drive digital innovation in the South West

  13/04/2018

  A project worth £6.5million is being launched across the South West to expand the use of digital technologies throughout the region's creative, health and manufacturing sectors.

• Symposium to explore how documentaries can better engage audiences using technology

  16/03/2018

  The fifth edition of the i-Docs symposium, which is dedicated to the expanding and evolving field of interactive documentaries, is to take place from 21-23 March at the Watershed. The bi-annual event is hosted by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)'s Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC).

• Major study to investigate UK feature documentary film industry

  28/06/2017

  A major AHRC-funded research project on the UK's booming feature documentary film industry will begin at UWE in December.

  The research will be led by Dr Steve Presence and Professor Andrew Spicer in the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), and will be carried out in collaboration with the British Film Institute, Creative England and The Grierson Trust, as well as several industry partners.

• Virtual Futures: Where is Virtual Reality taking us?

  21/03/2017

  Virtual Reality – or VR - has long been the idea of science fiction but now it is happening and the impact on society is potentially huge. The Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE Bristol and the University of Bristol are sponsoring a special track at this year's VR World Congress [Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 April 2017] to encourage debate into what this may mean for everyone.

• Virtual reality meets documentary at UWE Bristol's fourth i-Docs gathering

  02/03/2016

  i-Docs 2016, March 2-4, Watershed Bristol

  Almost 200 delegates from around the world will be in Bristol this week for the sold out i-Docs (Interactive Documentary) Symposium, to be held at the Watershed. The unique, three day, cross-disciplinary convening, brings together thinkers, makers and designers, to debate and showcase the latest work being created in the rapidly evolving, and boundary pushing, interactive documentary field.

• Reimagining reading; Ambient Literature project to investigate how we read

  14/01/2016

  What happens when the place where you're reading becomes the stage for the story? How can your location shape and alter the story you are hearing? How might writing, reading and the idea of the book itself change when we use technology to design stories, rather than just present them?

• The Rooms – A celebration of inventions to change and brighten the world

  16/10/2015

  5-7 November 2015, Silver Street, Bristol

  A playground filled with battling robots and fabulous beasts, a bio-activated maze and an interactive light garden are just some of the 53 imaginative inventions, including more than 11 projects from UWE Bristol, which will take over the old Fire Station, Magistrates Courts and Police Station in Bristol City Centre for a three day festival this November.

• £4m of business funding for "new products, new services and hundreds of jobs"

  07/09/2015

  South West businesses will benefit from £4m of new funding that will lead to new products, services and jobs, as the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) relaunches its highly successful Innovation 4 Growth (I4G) programme on 7th September.

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