Blast Theory

Description

Blast Theory is an artists' group, founded in 1991 and based in Portslade, Brighton, that makes interactive art including performances, games, films, apps and installations. Its work places the public at the centre of unusual and sometimes unsettling experiences to open new perspectives on power and society, drawing on popular culture and new technology. Since the late 1990s it has sustained a research collaboration with the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham, described as one of the longest and deepest collaborations between an artists' group and a university, and its practice spans human-computer interaction, location-based and mobile media, performance and, more recently, artificial intelligence. Blast Theory is a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England and is also supported by charitable trusts and foundations, and it runs a funded internship programme to widen access to the creative sector.

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Founding year

1991

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University of Nottingham

Additional Partnerships

University College London; King's College London (KCL); The Open University; University of Lincoln; Science Gallery London