ART // TECH // PLAY LIVE: Wordplay

For this edition of ART // TECH // PLAY LIVE at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, we’ll be looking at writers and text artists working with creative technology! Come along to hear some awesome talks, and learn more about what can happen when words and tech collide!

Joining us will be contextual artist Laura Trevail. Laura listens to a place, a problem, a need or an idea, and crafts that information into an experience that is both enjoyable and useful. She choose materials, process, aesthetic and form to suit the context; weaving actions with connected technology, innovation and transport, with traditional theatre, writing and visual art practice. Her background is in live performance, sculpture, data relationships, human behaviour, horror, connected devices and value exchange. They play together well.

We’ll also be hearing from Jon Ingold, Narrative Director of inkle, a Cambridge-based game studio founded in 2011 with a focus on dynamic storytelling and beautiful design. Jon’s focus is on content, working from the initial outline, through to the development of the authoring tools and the writing and scripting of the final content. He’ll be telling us about his history with interactive fiction and the tools inkle use to make their games. 

Finally we’ll hear from Jon Stone, Course Leader for Anglia Ruskin’s Creative Writing MA. Jon is a poet and poetry editor interested in hybrid and ludic literary forms, interactive fiction and collaborative writing. He is a co-director of Sidekick Books, a small press with a focus on multi-author mixed-genre anthologies.

After the talks, you’ll be able to check out some awesome examples of digital and interactive literature, have a chat, and meet other like-minded creatives and writers in the area!

Tickets £6. Book tickets here. We can’t wait to see you there!