The photos are in! 📸 Here’s a snapshot of our Immersive Arts Bootcamp Showcase. More photos on our Instagram. Congratulations to our cohort and thank you to our funders, WMCA and supporters, Arts Council, who make our bootcamps possible. Photos by Angela Grabowska.
A look back at our Immersive Arts Bootcamp Showcase. We're very proud of our cohort, and we look forward to sharing more photos soon. Thank you to everyone who attended, from our speakers to visitors! 🔥
Our Immersive Arts Bootcamp Showcase takes place tomorrow at BOM from 1pm - 3pm! Take a look at stills from some of the projects. Expect playable demos and a Creative Industries Panel. Read more and RSVP here: bit.ly/4cmUj9B
Just a few days to go until our Immersive Arts Bootcamp Showcase! Join us on Thursday to explore the work of our cohort and hear from our industry panel. More details here: bit.ly/4cmUj9B
8 days to go until our bootcampers share their final projects! 🔥 Join us at our Immersive Arts Bootcamp Showcase and celebrate the achievements of our latest cohort. Play with their projects, discover our Virtual Production Suite and listen to an industry panel from 2.30pm. RSVP: bit.ly/4b0M0j5
It’s workshop time! 💃🏽🕺🏿 We recently welcomed Eloquent Dance to BOM, where we created a bespoke workshop to introduce the dancers to the capabilities of working with emerging technologies and help their progression into creative technology pathways for dance performance.
Brum SoundTracks is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, with support from
Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Combined Authority.
Calling all music lovers! 🎵 Curious about Brum's musical heritage? Download Brum SoundTracks on iOS and Android and get ready to learn about the city's iconic music venues through photos, gig posters and more! Find out more here: bit.ly/47AzsOs
Girls that Geek, let’s go! 🔥 The BOM team spent a day at Midlands Art Centre for an interactive careers event exploring opportunities for women in art and tech. We delivered top requested activities like VR on Meta Quest and even included some motion controlled particle fun - an inspiring day!
Join us on Thursday 16th April, 1pm - 3pm at BOM for an Immersive Arts Bootcamp Showcase! Explore our talented cohort’s projects, join our industry panel and enjoy drinks and refreshments. RSVP here: bit.ly/4b0M0j5
Brum SoundTracks is live! 🥳 A project in collaboration with Birmingham Music Archive, the location-based AR app brings Brum’s iconic musical heritage to life. Find out more and download on iOS and Android now. bom.org.uk/BrumSoundtra...
Brum SoundTracks is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, with support from
Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Combined Authority.
Introducing Brum SoundTracks! 📍🎸⚡️ A location-based augmented reality app that brings Birmingham’s iconic music heritage to life. Working with Birmingham Music Archive, we created an app exploring Brum’s iconic music venues, discovering facts and archive material along the way. Read: bit.ly/47AzsOs
The last week at BOM in photos. 👀 From photoshoots for an upcoming project, to celebrating Ebenezer’s last day at BOM, our bootcampers heard from Csaba, MD of Sponge Hammer Games followed by a team day out at the Photography and Video Show at the NEC, it's been a busy one!
How cool do these sheds look? Created to demonstrate what the participants have learnt so far on the bootcamp, it’s a taster of what they’re able to create for their final projects. Join us on Thursday 16th April, to see what the cohort creates! Free tickets: bit.ly/4b0M0j5
New FUNDED PhD opportunity with me, @doktornick.bsky.social, and @bomlab.bsky.social on 'Playing in Public: Game-Based Interventions for Sustainability, Community and Environmental Engagement' as part of the CreaTech Frontiers CDA scheme!
Deadline: 10 April
Details: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...
BOM X BCU! We’re excited to partner with @mybcu.bsky.social on a PhD Studentship for the project ‘Playing in Public: Game-Based Interventions for Sustainability, Community and Environmental Engagement'. Applications close 10th April. All enquiries and applications can be found here: bit.ly/4upSBMX
We celebrated our Powering Up programme with a showcase! Designed to empower and inspire Black children in Birmingham schools, we’ve been running creative digital workshops with support from local guest artists. A big shout-out to our learning and engagement team for delivering 3 successful years! 🔥
This is what week 10 on our Immersive Arts Bootcamp looks like, and these aren’t even their final projects! 🤩 Come and join us on Thursday 16th April at the Bootcamp Showcase to see what the cohort creates! Free tickets: bit.ly/4b0M0j5
What has our bootcamp alumni been up to? 👀 Jeff Chilberto created ‘Crap Taxidermy’ during his time on our Immersive Arts Bootcamp. Now available on the Meta Store, have fun creating your own taxidermy, complete with silly props and poses. Have a play and let Jeff know what you think! bit.ly/3OZlCyH
A look back at last week at BOM! 🤩 We’ve been testing out the Apple Vision Pro for R&D, had a visit from Displace Studio for an Industry Spotlight session for our bootcampers, spent time in the VPS for MoCap, and celebrated our Powering Up programme, inviting students to showcase their work...
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Save the Date 🥳 Join us on Thursday 16th April, 1pm - 3pm at BOM and discover the work of our Immersive Arts Bootcampers, plus an industry panel! RSVP here: bit.ly/4b0M0j5
That’s a wrap for our current round of Immersive Workshops in partnership with CreaTech Frontiers! 💚 We’ve had a brilliant few months sharing our knowledge from XR Project Planning to Virtual Production. We look forward to holding future CreaTech workshops. Stay tuned!
Spotlight on a busy day at BOM! 🔦 Our Games Artist, Clodagh is busy working on illustrations for a client, a visit to Great Barr Street for a bat inspection, an intensive day for week 8 on our Immersive Arts Bootcamp and our 3D Specialist, Gurvinder working on an upcoming project...watch this space!
Welcome to our Virtual Production Suite – or VPS, as we like to call it. Ideal for immersive projects, we offer flexible hire, from studio to equipment and even the BOM team, all located in the heart of Birmingham and just a 2-min walk from New St Station. Find out more 👉🏼 bit.ly/4hSWILE
Our Immersive Trainer, Akshay Raman, attended the BSC Expo, an event for film and TV production. From attending talks to testing new tech and exploring industry trends, there was plenty of food for thought along with exciting ideas about how these insights could shape our future home in Digbeth! 🎥
Powering Up is a 3-year funded project supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, working predominantly with black children in North Birmingham.
We delivered our final Powering Up programme at BOA Digital!
Over the past few years, we’ve worked with students from Year 7 through to Year 9, and we’ve loved the process! For our final class, pupils created a mixture of low-poly rooms and built their own immersive gallery spaces. 🤩
Frontiers Day was made possible with support from CreaTech Frontiers, Arup, West Midlands Combined Authority, Create Central, Arts Council England, Royal Academy of Engineering and TechWM.
