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2023 Feeling Machines

People embracing a large, glowing, inflatable art installation with a pale green hue.

About the festival:

Feeling Machines 2022-2023 was packed full of inspiring activities, talks, films and artworks all exploring the question: ‘How do digital technologies intertwine with the most intimate aspects of our lives?⁣’

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  • April 1st, 2023
  • March 30th, 2023
  • March 31st, 2023
  • November 15th, 2022
  • November 29th, 2022
  • October 13th, 2022
  • October 30th, 2022
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  • St Anne's House, a community & creative hub
  • Nightingale Valley
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  • Lost Horizon Arts Centre & Bar
  • 1 Canon's Rd
  • Knowle West Media Centre
  • Watershed
Three people from behind, observing an intricate digital art piece on a monitor in a bright, naturally lit room.
April 1st, 2023
- Free Entry

No Light Work

– Animated visuals made with p5 and hydra-synth

By David Matunda
Close-up of hands connecting wires to an electronic device on a large sheet of paper with black lines drawn on it.
April 1st, 2023

Drawing Sound Networks

– Drop-in electronic sound workshop

By PRRRRRT!
A child in a yellow raincoat and an adult in a red jacket using metal detectors on a grassy field with houses in the background.
April 1st, 2023

Rare Earth Walks

– Metal detecting walk

By Max Dovey
A speaker wearing a red jacket presenting in front of a screen showing digital art software.
April 1st, 2023

Live Coding for Performance

– Workshop in creating live coded music

By Antonio Roberts
A person interacting with a pile of tangled wires on a table in front of them. Behind them is a colourful, abstract projection
April 1st, 2023

Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness

– Film screening

By Russel Hlongwane, Francois Knoetze & Amy Louise Wilson
A desk showing an array of old and new mobile phones and phone cases ordered neatly
April 1st, 2023

The Phone Project

– Installation and workshop exploring relationships with phones

By Chloe Meineck
A green chair with a cosy blanket in front of a desk with a laptop, lamp, and vase of flowers.
April 1st, 2023

Keeping in Touch

– Interactive narrative about queer dating

By Giulia Carla Rossi
A person wearing red dungarees is reading a pink booklet at a workstation. The room is filled with natural light and potted plants.
April 1st, 2023

S.E.T. (Scripted Emergent Togetherness)

– Response to personal stories as databases

By MELT
A child sits at a desk using a laptop in a room with large windows and potted plants.
April 1st, 2023
- Free Entry

Poem.garden

– Self-hosted digital garden website

By Harriet Horobin-Worley
building with 'st annes house' written outfront and two people standing below it. The building has lots of windows and blue cladding.
April 1st, 2023
- Free Entry

St Annes House live broadcast

– An online exhibition walk through

By Control Shift Curators
poster with cut-off text reading 'from cyber punk to time hunting' in the background are the faces of two people
April 1st, 2023
- Free Entry

From Cyber Punk To Time Hunting

– A podcast discussion

By Russel Hlongwane & Mark Mushiva
A table with paper, coloured pencils, and a folded piece of paper which reads 'doodle algozine'
April 1st, 2023

Algozine

– Algorithmic zine making

By Pete Bennett
Two individuals sitting on the floor, intently watching a digital art piece involving a glowing circle displayed on a monitor in a cozy room.
April 1st, 2023
- Free Entry

Look up!

– Film of projected animated works created in code

By Dave Webb
A close up of a painting with expressive layered brushstrokes. This closeup view is abstract and made up of bright blues, yellows, reds and pinks.
April 1st, 2023

The Almost

– A painting commission exploring Feeling Machines

By Asmaa Jama
A person holding a piece of paper with a drawing of a utreus on it. It is hanging from red string alongside other paper hanging from red string.
April 1st, 2023

Periodical

– Residency exploring period tracking apps

By Wisterlitz
A phone which reads 'say hi to enlightenment' next to two traditional tarot cards: empereur and reyne de denier
April 1st, 2023

Divination is an Intimate Affair

– Digital witchcraft oracle booth

By Danae Tapia
Close-up of hands pointing at and photographing abstract line drawings and diagrams on paper spread out on the floor.
April 1st, 2023

Choreographing Web Environments

– Workshop exploring code and dance

By Joana Chicau
A screenshot of a zoom call with people holding artwork up to the camera.
March 31st, 2023

Lunchtime Talk

– Discussing new works responding to Feeling Machines

By Chloe Meineck & Giulia Carla Rossi
Two musicians on a stage looking at laptops, digital sound wave visuals are projected next to them.
March 30th, 2023

Algorave

– Live-coded electronic dance music

By Heavy Lifting, Hellocatfood, Rumblesan, Joana Chicau, David Matunda, YAXU & Anima Techne
A person embracing a large, glowing, inflatable art installation with a pale green hue.
March 30th, 2023

Giant Tactile Robots

– Interactive installation

By Air Giants
a graphic of an old apple computer on a gridded background with bright green and pink shapes around it
November 29th, 2022
- Free Entry

Can a website be a garden?

– In-person workshop building decentralised online gardens

By Harriet Horobin-Worley
poster for a past queer tech bristol meetup, with a pixellated image of a person at a computer
November 15th, 2022

Show and Share

– Community meetup for LGBTQIA+ folks who work with or in technology

By Queer Tech Bristol
A group of people sat around a table in dim blue lighting, with a presentation on a screen in the background.
October 30th, 2022

Ready? S.E.T!

– Workshop exploring how personal stories can become data (or not!)

By MELT
screenshot of video callers and a miroboard with 'programme' written in it with lots of postit notes
October 13th, 2022
- Free Entry

Introducing Feeling Machines

– An online talk introducing the programme

By Control Shift Curators

Supporters & funders for Feeling Machines

Logo of Knowle West Media Centre
Logo reading Supported by Arts Council England
Logo of University of the West of England
Logo of Arnolfini
Bath Spa University logo
Container logo
Bristol + Bath Creative R&D logo
Watershed logo
Bricks logo
Pervasive Media Studio logo
St Annes House logo
Woodcroft Community Orchard logo
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