The world of public art, long a bastion of municipally-approved artworks imposed on our public spaces, has a new wave of artists taking a radical view as to what art in the public realm could, and should be. Armed with…
We have been running Art & Tech Social since 2107, the idea is to bring people together to explore art and tech with the addition of drinks and a curry! Sadly Covid ruined our chances of sharing a curry over…
Our current exhibition, Atmospheric Encounters, covers the work of the High Altitude Bioprospecting (HAB) team, a group with an extraordinary broad skillset between them, including biochemistry, technology, engineering, robotics, mathematics and art. Bought together by a shared interest in microbiology,…
by Claire Douglass, BOM Visitor Experience Assistant Hello, we’re back in the BOM building with our freshest exhibition, Atmospheric Encounters being installed as I type. The gallery and Café may have been closed but what did we get up to…
By Melissa Grant, written as part of ‘Atmospheric Encounters‘, BOM’s exhibition 19 May – 28 August 2021. A whole new perspective can be gained from being aloft in a balloon. Far from the violent wrenching experienced when taking off in…
From BOM Fellow and Artist …kruse. As a neurodivergent person and creative practitioner, I am very aware that generally the arts are not accessible to someone like me. Which is a shame because A) there are a lot of someones…
Hi! Claire here. Pre-lockdown, I was BOM’s gallery assistant. Social media forays often require me to research the creative practices of BOM programme participants. The background reading for the upcoming Art & Tech Summit, has seen me flying into an…
BOM has been selected to lead a team in developing ambitious ideas during the R&D project for Festival UK* 2022. We are one of 30 shortlisted Lead Organisations, working in partnership with creative practitioners and experts across the STEAM sectors…
Mood Pinball by BOM Fellows Ben Neal, Edie Jo Murray and Harmeet Chagger-Khan -and produced by BOM – is to have an exciting update coinciding with the ODI Summit 2020 today. The project now has a dedicated website at www.moodpinball.com…
Coder Beatz a new creative digital programme for young Black kids aged between 11-15 years. We are running 4 monthly workshops at BOM (please look for updates in our calendar). Coder Beatz is a beginners series of amazing workshops where…
I was fortunate enough to take part in a creative coding course, the Art of Code, run by generative artist Jessica In (SheDrawswithCode). Over 3 weekends she taught the basics of writing code in Processing to create a piece of…
Due to Government guidelines relating to Covid-19, we have had to close our Gallery & Café for the next four weeks, but never fear – we’ve shifted online and we are doing our very best to bring as much of…
BOM has been working on a series of projects focussing on air quality, how technology might improve our health, and the ways art could help to generate interest in this important contemporary issue. Often in partnership with Francis Pope –…
BOM’s Digital Producer Ben often gets asked about software and electrical platforms that creative people use, and we thought it might be good for him to share some of that info on video. Maybe you’ve heard of the tiny Raspberry…
By Kanyi Wyban In the wake of Covid-19, artists around the world have been called upon to act broadly, bearing responsibility as crucial cultural players. The moment has largely been categorized as a pandemic and one that demands reactive, therapeutic…
