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Welcome to Belfast
BEYOND is delighted to announce Belfast as our home for the 2021 event and to share Professor Paul Moore, Director, Future Screens Northern Ireland, reflections on this year’s conference theme and why Belfast is the perfect location to explore how imagined spaces as...
Shows From the Small Screen: Latest Research Considers ‘Audiences at a Time of Pandemic’
This year our smartphones, computers and TV screens became our default windows to the world - for news, entertainment and human connection. As gigs, theatres and the majority of cultural experiences disappeared from physical view, we saw a whole of host of unique...
Day Two @ BEYOND 2020: Convergence – exploring new types of experiences
Day two at BEYOND took the theme of Convergence to look at the disruption that is already happening in the Creative Industries, the genres and disciplines converging to produce new types of experiences and the opportunities they present for audiences, creators,...
Day One @ BEYOND 2020: Divergence – normal programming has been interrupted
Hosted by this year's MC Joanna Abeyie MBE, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Blue Moon, BEYOND is an exciting opportunity for the creative industries to come together to share research and personal insights to stimulate and support creative innovation. As well...
Meet the Makers Sessions Announced: Quiz the Researchers Behind Cutting-Edge Creative Industries R&D
This year's BEYOND includes two showcases - the Immersive Futures Lab and Creative China showcase, both featuring ground-breaking creative projects that demonstrate new types of content and novel uses of technologies, with early-stage prototypes utilising technologies...
BEYOND 2020 Features White Light’s SmartStage To Host Q&A Inside Immersive Environment
Like every other event since the pandemic hit, the annual BEYOND conference is now online - a forum for current and future innovators dedicated to Research and Development across the Creative Industries. For 2020, BEYOND is transformed from a live event, previously in...
Equality, diversity & inclusion: central to the future of the creative industries
One of the most important questions that will be addressed at this year's BEYOND is 'What practical steps do we need to take to ensure that equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the creative industries of the future?' Highlighted below, a number of sessions...
CI Labs #14 @ BEYOND: Games Go Guerilla
It's a pleasure to include the CI Labs: Games Go Guerilla event from Creative Informatics (funded through the Creative Industries Clusters Programme), as part the BEYOND schedule on Day 4 at 6pm. This event explores the world of indie gaming with designers and artists...
BEYOND 2020: Immersive Futures Lab – Showreel
As part of this year's BEYOND, the Immersive Futures Lab offers delegates a unique opportunity to explore projects in this digital showcase, with exclusive access to an exciting line up of creative projects that demonstrate innovative ideas, new types of content...
