Pixel Play Sessions

Youth art sessions exploring interactive digital collage

Create, glitch, and distort moving images and collages with our new Pixel Play sessions!
Are you an aspiring artist with a brilliant imagination? Do you find yourself being hypnotised by spectacular animations? Do you love the idea of making video art where you can change everything with an Xbox controller?

Our Pixel Play sessions for ages 13-17 can open a vibrant new world where art and technology combine to bring your wildest visual ideas to life – whether that’s morphing colours and shapes, or cut-outs of marine animals warping, dancing and swimming across the screen. You’ll be creating art with collages and visual textures and using TouchDesigner, a free program that can make your visions a video-based reality. Sessions are designed to allow you to work in a way that interests you.

We’ve teamed up with visual artist Jess Pemberton for these sessions. In her work as an artist and live visuals creator for ESC, a Falmouth-based dance music collective, Jess uses TouchDesigner to make incredible visuals that warp, melt, shape-shift and blend together in strange new ways – resulting in experiences that always leave audiences amazed, and wondering how she did it.

In our sessions, Jess will share her secrets with you. You’ll brainstorm creative ideas, use fun visual coding software, and manipulate visuals using Xbox controllers and mixers. As a group, you’ll work together to create art that can also be used as projections for a concert by our Cornwall Youth Noise Orchestra this summer. This means we’ll even be making visuals that are audio-reactive, and working in the same space that the orchestra are rehearsing so that you can feel the vibe of the music and get inspired.

Booking essential (via Moogie Wonderland). Two sessions will take place at a difference venue.