n-Space
In collaboration with key academic and cultural partners, n-Space will be an evolving workspace and network, supporting a diverse range of practitioners and collaborations, focused on process, creative inquiry and outcomes that don’t fit within traditional institutional platforms. A pioneering new node for trans-sector collaboration, n-Space aims to generate novel insights and interventions in emerging sociotechnical systems.
The Studios has supported artists and creative thinkers who work with emerging and advanced technology - at all stages - since its inception in 2016, as part of our wider cross-disciplinary remit as both a thriving artistic community and an engine room for new ideas and projects. Drawing on the network of creative practitioners who have worked with the Studios over the last 9 years, n-Space aims to create the conditions for bold and ambitious experimentation.
Supported by the Rothschild Foundation, the first n-Space project will be a series of funded fellowships for an interdisciplinary cohort of six practitioners, invited and selected by the partners for this initial pilot programme. The partners are UAL’s Creative Computing Institute, Goldsmiths Computing and Abandon Normal Devices in collaboration with the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. The first cohort of fellows are confirmed as Adnan Naqvi, Agnes Cameron, dmstfctn, Ed Fornieles, Hannah Cobb, Leela Jadhav.
n-Space is an evolving project. If you’re interested in hearing about research, outcomes and public events as they emerge, we encourage you to join the mailing list here.
n-Space Fellowship
n-Space Partners
Somerset House Studios
Somerset House Studios is a space for experimentation in the centre of London connecting artists, makers and thinkers with audiences. The Studios supports artists across disciplines to push bold ideas, engage with urgent issues and experiment with new technologies. At the heart of Somerset House, the home of cultural innovators, up to 70 artists are resident at any one time for a period of between one and seven years, with a number of shorter term national and international residency programmes running alongside. The Studios develops ambitious cross disciplinary projects and creative collaborations on a range of scales, and powers Channel, Somerset House’s online space for art, ideas and the artistic process.
UAL's Creative Computing Institute (CCI)
UAL's Creative Computing Institute (CCI) Experimental Infrastructures is a UAL research hub reorienting investigative methods and computational practices to generate insights and interventions into emerging sociotechnical systems. We develop auditable forms of practice-led design research that interrogate the micro and macroscalar dynamics of more-than-computational infrastructures. From explorations of the materiality and ecological impact of infrastructure, to the cognitive models we develop in their wake (HAIID) we develop interfaces, installations, diagrams and prototypes that lead to public forms of knowledge dissemination..
Goldsmith’s Process-Iteration-Network (PIN)
Goldsmith’s Process-Iteration-Network (PIN) research unit acts as the central nexus for a network of practice-based research activities spanning a wide cross-section of interdisciplinary fields. Building on the reputation and robust research output history of the intersection of art and technology of the Goldsmiths Computing department, the research unit creates the conditions that allow for the ‘poetic precision’ of practice-based research to emerge and become officially acknowledged and established as a main research output of the department. The research unit acts as an international stage for the critical and technical interrogation of hybrid practices as/through research, whilst supporting processes of networked knowledge-practice dissemination as new heuristic models.
Abandon Normal Devices (AND)
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is a radical arts organisation, situated in the North of England and working globally. AND is renowned for producing the UK's only nomadic, site-responsive digital arts festival, commissioning works which combine creativity, technology, and science, challenging norms and fostering critical dialogue through immersive experiences grounded in ethics, sustainability and inclusion. AND has a long-term curatorial relationship with the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University, supporting the bold visions of practitioners working at the intersection of art and technology.
School of Digital Arts (SODA)
The School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University is a purpose‑built, interdisciplinary school at one of the UK’s leading universities. Offering industry informed courses and specialist spaces with the latest technologies, SODA is a £35M investment into the workspaces, networks, teaching and research that will drive the next generation of creative content. A proud part of Manchester Met, we build on the creative, science, tech and business strengths of a university whose research is rated as ‘world-leading’ and is changing the way we live, work, learn and play.
n-Space is curated by Linda Rocco for Somerset House Studios and supported by the Rothschild Foundation.
