Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ major new body of work, Safe Zone – a collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, invites us to explore the political, economic, and cultural forces that underlie our everyday experiences. Paintings, sound, and video works created using artificial intelligence technologies draw connections between globally witnessed and overlooked events.

Discover artist, theorist, and filmmaker Bahar Noorizadeh’s Free to Choose, an immersive film work that explores speculation, finance, the weird and the unknown. Described by Bahar as as a "financial science-fiction opera” Free to Choose, depicts a delirious and absurdist extreme vision of a financialised future through a story set in Hong Kong, spanning decades.

Fun, playful and suitable for gamers and non-gamers of all ages, Art Plays Games looks at how artists are increasingly using games as a way to challenge conventional forms of storytelling and offer us new ways to make sense of the world today. You can now discover works by Alice Bucknell and Theo Triantafyllidis, as well as new commissions by our digital residency artists: Matt Allen, Livi Wilmore, James McColl, and Gavin Gayagoy.