We Make Fawdon
Artists-in-Residence at Fawdon Community Centre
October 2026 – March 2027
#communityarts #workshops #creativeconsultation #participatorypractice #placemaking
#workshops #haptic #3Dscanning #projection-mapping #place-based #environmental data
Space Banners
Part of the Schools Festival at Culture House, Sunderland.
On display in the Inventors Lab, Floor 3
#youngpeople #digital fabrication #schools
The Rings of the North
Exhibition at the This is the North Convention
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#participatory practice #installation #environmental data
More than Human:Ouseburn Multispecies Futures
Workshop at Wild Roots Community Garden and exhibition at the This is the North Convention
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#workshop #haptic #mask-making #environmental data
The Sea Project
Co-created Digital World with young people from Sunderland about their relationship to the sea.
Commissioned by Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
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#workshops #haptic #digital world #youn gpeople #place-based #museum collection #3Dscanning
Day in the Life
June –July 2026
Mixed-reality VR experience
Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton
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#mixed-reality #VR #heritage #communities #oral history #archive
The Landfill Reenactment Society
31 May 2026, 1:30-4pm
Kirkcaldy Galleries
Part of the Waste Futures Labs Kirkcaldy and the Resilience of Anthropocene Coasts and Communities (RACC) research project
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#workshop #mask-making #haptic #environmental data #research
Trapdoor to a Fantastical County Durham
28th March–18th April 2026
Exhibition and AR
Community Space at the Courtyard Gallery, Palace Green, Durham
28th March, 11am-12.30pm
Make a Plasticine Monster: drop-in workshop for children and adults
Digital World launches on 28th March 2026
#workshops #plasticine #digital world #AR #young people #place-based #exhibition
Experiments in Placemaking and Technology (E.P.T.)
In collaboration with the INFRA Atelier (Manchester School of Art), Dr Sammy Woodford and Michael Walsh.
29th January 2026 from 4pm
Gallery 2 in the Manchester Technology Centre.
#architecture #critical GenAI #exhibition #research
Blobtopia Brainrotting Wasteland
Aka Slop Factory 500 workshop for the Collective Studio (The NewBridge Project) in collaboration with Paul Raymond.
A performative workshop featuring Sloppy Bog Roll, Mr Blobby and numerous gremlin creatures resulting in a hybrid exhibition.
Digital World
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#performative workshop #digital-world #3Dscanning #exhibition
Decoding AI
Decoding AI is a project co-designed by Strange Quark and the INFRA Atelier at Manchester School of Art in collaboration with Dr Sammy Woodford and Michael Walsh, with a contribution Dr José Miguel Lameiras.
Decoding AI took place in January 2025 and resulted in an homonymous exhibition at Gallery 2 in the Manchester Technology Centre.
#architecture #criticalGenAI #exhibition #research
The Magicians Organise Themselves is a digital exhibition with an-person opening at the project space in Newbridge that took place on 11th December 2024. The exhibition showcased works created by the Collective Studio on the same day as the opening, prompted by Esoteric Orders, a performative and participatory workshop.
The exhibition connected the physical and digital realms through the prism of magic. Rooted in magic and witchcraft counterculture from the North of England, the focus is on DIY practices, collaboration and magical thinking.
#performative workshop #digitalworld #3Dscanning #exhibition
We pretended It Wasn’t Green
"We Pretended It Wasn't Green" is an immersive art project that takes viewers through a surreal world where nature, perception, and climate ecosystems blur. The installation features a live generative animation showcasing a frog and enchanting mushrooms intricately woven into a constantly changing narrative influenced by real-time earth data from satellites spinning above us.
Installation shot: Life Science Centre as part of TechNExt.
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A continuous robotic performance, which extends from a previous work (nɑnkə ˈmjuːnɪkəbəl) commissioned by GoMA in Glasgow. These performing robotic organisms respond to the actual space with movement and sound by collecting live air pollution data. The organisms feed off of the air pollution, creating a burbling soundscape. Live-streamed to the virtual universe full of gelatinous sheaths generated by the audience's presence, pumping out quenelles of meaning together.
Planet Cramond
Planet Cramond is the digital world was co-designed with members of Asteria Creative (creative branch of Asteria Space and Satellites) to document the first Augmented Reality exhibition that took place on Cramond Island outside Edinburgh. As part of the project, Strange Quark 3D scanned the whole island using Lidar technology and created a digital environment for the exhibition.
Universal Matter
Universal Matter explored the roles of curiosity and care as drivers for space exploration in collaboration with Asteria Creative (creative branch of Asteria Space and Satellites). Using data visualisation, the display braught to light the interconnectivity between human and non-human realms of experience. The work was displayed on the city screens at InSpace at the University of Edinburgh