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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...
Better, Together: How cutting-edge immersive technology is colliding
Revealing the latest additions to the jam-packed BEYOND 2020 line-up, showcases focusing on the use of innovative technology to better understand ourselves, engage audiences and build our connections to each other. Showcases including Born in Bradford and Immortal XR...
BEYOND Deep Dive: Current, Rising
Inspired by Shakespeare's Tempest, Current, Rising combines virtual reality with a physical built environment to create a multi-sensory, immersive, musical experience at the Royal Opera House. It is the world’s first original opera in hyper reality, a result of a...
To the future (and BEYOND!): Speakers from the gaming world announced
2020 has seen so much change, we can't help but speculate on what will emerge from the chaos. This week's latest BEYOND announcements look to the future with renowned speakers from the world of gaming - are we on the brink of the Metaverse? What does the future of...
BEYOND First Speakers & Showcases Announced: Creative Convergence for Climate Change
We are delighted to announce the very first of our BEYOND showcases and speakers. Dealing with themes and ideas critical to 2020, these projects put cutting-edge technology to use in connecting us to the world around us, helping us to understand the challenges we face...
Beyond 2019…in case you missed it.
This year’s BEYOND Conference took place in the Assembly Rooms in the heart of Edinburgh. Attracting leading academics and researchers, journalists and creative industry professionals, the conference presented a series of panels, talks, and 5-minute presentations from...
Hot topics at Beyond 2019: AI and its impact on future creativity
Taking place in Edinburgh on 20-21 November, this year’s BEYOND conference looks into the impact of artificial intelligence and creative-led data on creativity and the arts. Academics, businesses, journalists, and creative...
AI and Music: Creativity and the complexities
Music, as many other creative fields that are also highly innovative and competitive, has seen the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning and explored ways to take advantage of them. Long existing music platforms like Spotify and Apple Music have...
Human vs Things: How AI is disrupting the design process
It's a pleasure to share this article by Prof Chris Speed who is Chair of Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Over to Chris... A great deal has changed since the Creative Informatics R&D Cluster began in...
