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Meet Our Digital Residency Artists

Come say hi to our digital residency artists and be among the first to explore their new works!

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Digital residency artists Matt Allen, Gavin Gayagoy, James McColl, and Livi Wilmore invite you to the opening of their residency exhibition. The artists’ new works are presented as part of Art Plays Games, a free, rotating exhibition dedicated to showcasing games created by digital artists and independent game developers.

The event is an opportunity to hear insights from the artists, including how they have developed their practice over their three-month residencies. It’s also a chance to explore and play their new works!

Produced in partnership with DaDa and Lucid Games, these digital residencies are part of our commitment to supporting emerging artists working at the intersection of games, culture, art, and technology. All four artists are in the early stages of their careers and are based in the North of England. Each artist received an artist and production fee, three months of support, as well as access to Studio/Lab’s digital production spaces and creative technical resources.

Find out more about each of the residents below →

MATT ALLEN

MATT ALLEN

Matt’s practice explores dreams, reality and anxiety. His work sits between video games, live performances and visual art, having previously created artworks for performances, live art events and festivals. As a disabled artist making work about his lived experience, Matt’s practice draws upon autobiographical material to create interactive artworks. For this residency, supported in partnership with DaDa, Matt will create a new digital artwork about myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.) and chronic fatigue. 

GAVIN GAYAGOY

GAVIN GAYAGOY

Gavin is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who explores new media art forms. Originally from the North West and currently living in Newcastle, his work investigates our relationship with new technology and the internet; and how, as a medium or material, it can be used to reflect on itself, questioning the authenticity of our digital lives. For this residency, supported in partnership with Lucid Games, Gavin will explore how digital spaces can immerse and challenge viewers. He is particularly interested in using game design elements to explore how digital environments influence perception, truth, and identity.

JAMES MCCOLL

JAMES MCCOLL

James is an artist, writer, and researcher based in the North-West who works predominantly in collaboration with artists and communities. Often working in film, performance and text, his most recent works take the form of DIY game art. James’ current work focuses on his personal and professional interest in pro-wrestling, exploring how identities are formed by blurring realities, ‘fictioning’ and practising mantras as magic. This residency will allow James to develop his text-based wrestling game further and think about how other forms of game design might influence its evolution.

LIVI WILMORE

LIVI WILMORE

Livi is a digital artist and XR developer based in Greater Manchester. Her practice uses mixed reality and immersive technology to showcase lost histories, enhance storytelling, and challenge how people see the world around them. Livi is currently exploring the uncanny valley (the psychological phenomenon that describes the feeling of unease that people experience when something is almost human but not quite) in the current fast-paced digital renaissance. During this residency, Livi is looking to explore the idea of ‘digital childhoods’, the online spaces we left behind, and how they might look now with and without the rose-coloured glasses of nostalgia. 

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Exhibition

Art Plays Games

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Explore a free exhibition dedicated to showcasing games created by digital artists and independent video game developers.

Meet Our 2024 Digital Artists-in-Residence

We’re thrilled to announce our 2024 digital artist residencies, featuring four emerging talents from the North of England exploring the intersection of games, culture, art, and technology.

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