Having organised The Art of Crass and Microworld Leicester exhibitions this year, we are ending 2016 with an exhibition of new work by Sean Clark. "A Cybernetic Ecology" is the result of more than four year's work and features both solo and collaborative pieces. The exhibition will take place at the LCB Depot Lightbox between the 6th and 23rd December.

Join Interact Digital Arts and Genetic Moo at Wot SPACE in Leicester's Highcross for a week of digital art experimentation and free workshops. Microworld Leicester will feature artwork from the award-winning artists together with plenty of opportunities for...

For the second year running we have been involved in the organisation of the Art.CHI workshop and exhibition at the ACM CHI Conference and produced the Art.CHI website. This year's event took place in San Jose in Silicon Valley. The website contains information...

The Interact events guide now not only features Interact Digital Arts events, but other digital arts events in Leicester, and selected events from the Midlands, the UK and beyond. We hope that you find it useful.

Perhaps the first thing you might notice is...

We hosted a very interesting talk by Jorge Lopes Ramos from ZU-UK at Interact Labs on Wednesday. Jorge took us through his experiences of running the interactive/participatory performance Hotel Medea and other arts activities.

His talk was very relevant to...

We have booked the next series of Code Club sessions in the Lab. The group will now be meeting fortnightly (on a Monday, 4:30pm until 6pm) and there are still a few places left. You will need to be quick if you want one though, we are limited to 10 youngsters...

A new year and the start of a new venture! As of today Interact Digital Arts Ltd is officially open for business. We have been using the name for a few of months now, but 1st January 2016 marks the formal launch of the project.

Yesterday was the last Phoenix Code Club of the year. Having started in October, we have built up a great team of seven regular attendees and two STEM Ambassadors. We have spent time working on Scratch programming, getting to know the 3D printer, a little...

We're really pleased to announce that we have been successful in getting Arts Council funding for our "Computer Drawing: DP Henry and Beyond" exhibition. This is something we've wanted to host for a while and the funding allows us to run it in the way we had...

Following a highly successful Creat-A-Con: Kids event in February, Leicester-based event organisers SideFest will be hosting Creat-A-Con: Plus aimed at College age and above.

Creat-A-Con: Plus will be held in Queen's Building, DMU on Saturday 7th November and...

Last Wednesday, as part of our Computer Arts Society Talks programme, members of the Institute of Creative Technologies gave a series of talks about their current research. It was a really interesting evening with topics including the Internet of Things, Transmedia...

Interact Labs and Phoenix will be starting a Code Club for 9-11 year-olds on the 12th October 2015. The club will run from 16:30pm until 6pm and will initially meet monthly. We hope to increase the number of sessions as interest grows and we find more volunteers....

Interact Labs' Director, Sean Clark, on the shortlist for a Talk Talk Digital Heroes 2015 award under the 'skills' category. It's for the 'art-meets-technology' work that he's been doing at Phoenix Interact Labs over the last couple of years.

There's a prize...

Launched in 2014, our scheme offers bursaries of up to £500, workspace and individual programmes of support to artists, designers or technologists interested in experimenting with technology in their practice, to help them create innovative new work....

Make||Sound is an eight-day festival taking place in Leicester's City Centre - at Highcross and Curve - that will be exploring the possibilities and intricacies of sound as an artform. The event runs from from Saturday 6th June until Saturday 13th June 2015...

Luke Woodbury gave a very interesting talk about his work on Wednesday. Despite being based in Bristol, Luke seems to have established himself quite well in Leicester - with involvement in local projects such as Pop Up Play and Esther Rolinson's exhibition...

We had a very interesting talk from Nick Rothwell last night. Nick is a programer and sound artist who works extensively with choreographers and dancers. His 'performance systems' feature light, projections, music and he has a strong systems aesthetic in what...

The Affective Digital Histories project has just come to an end following the launch of the Hidden Stories book at Phoenix on the 31st March. The project was exploring how "technology" can be used to connect people with the history of an area - in this case...

Interact Labs started its spring CAS speaker programme on Wednesday with a talk from artist Alex May. The 20+ audience was treated to an interesting talk from Alex about his creative practice that has included programming, VJing, projection mapping and robotics....

Creat-A-Con was a one-day Creative Technology organised by Jason Boomer of SideFest. It took place in the Queens Building at DMU in Leicester on the 21st February 2015. Exhibitors included Leicester Hackspace, Creative Manifesto, Starbase Leicester and Interact...