Stone Life I, II & III are playful interactive sculptures by Iona Zawinski, combining handmade papier-mâché forms with electronics designed and built by the artist. Inspired by the shapes, textures and storied nature of stones, the sculptures draw on the sensory delight of finding, collecting and handling them. Visitors are invited to squish and squeeze the sculptures, awakening each one through touch. Each responds in its own way, communicating through sound and light. The musical elements combine sounds created by Zawinski with those of her long-time musical collaborator, Erez Yotam Bertrand. The development of Stone Life I, II & III was supported by Immersive Arts. Please, go forth and squish.

Tamagotchi Seance #3: Memory Garden (by Nick Murray) is a gentle narrative game and an ambient multiplayer space. Hinting at physical memorial sites, old school forums and digital pets as boundary objects, TS#3 invites players to explore the ruins of a digital garden. Through leaving messages, the space shifts and grows into something new. Each message seeds a plant, and as messages grow, so does the plant-life in the space. Part of Memory Garden exists as a series of physical urns. Each one is its own webserver, housing a poetic text looking at loss and memory in digital spaces. After reading, the player is invited to leave a message in response, which is displayed on an e-ink plaque on each object. The messages remain until replaced by another, slowly changing the memorial landscape of the space over time.

A projection mapped popup game book (designed by Alastair Low) where the players use a controller to move a character through the book or to play other mini games like painting or golf.

A narrative game by Lucy Middleton, played in a phone booth. What happens when a system outlives it’s purpose? In a rapidly changing world, what happens to all that we left behind? This installation invites you on a temporal adventure, leaving you to decide – is attention enough?

This interactive, work-in-progress installation by Jung In Jung presents two sonified videos of the Sun’s surface, recorded between 27 and 30 March 2014, a period of intense solar activity that includes several solar flares. One video is a magnetogram visualising the Sun’s magnetic field. White areas indicate magnetic fields directed towards the observer, while black areas indicate fields directed away. The intensity of the black and white tones reflects the strength of the magnetic field, with grey representing values close to zero. The second video shows the solar corona and includes three major solar flares. A central consideration in the sonification process was how to translate complex pixel data into sound and touch in ways that convey activity occurring in different regions of the Sun’s surface. By moving the listener icon across the image, visitors can listen to sonified data from specific locations and explore how changes in the visual data correspond to changes in sound. The same data is also translated into a haptic experience through a tactile mat, allowing visitors to experience variations in the data through touch as well as hearing. The installation was developed as part of the CHIME Data Sonification Residency at the University of Glasgow in collaboration with Professor Lyndsay Fletcher.

‘Phuture Unit’ and ‘Games Machine’ from The Ambient Arcade by Soundplay Projects, a series of accessible audio-visual sculptures that take the form of retro style video games units and old school computer terminals. Soundplay Projects create inclusive workshops, sessions and events with and for disabled and non-disabled people. They use technology to weave together music, sound, moving image and sensory materials to create carefully crafted spaces and objects that help people play and make together.

A selection of creative technology work by Room to Play artists over the last few months. Room to Play is an annual course and exhibition project run by Tinderbox Collective, for emerging artists interested in using technology in their work. Co-directed with immersive design studio Ray Interactive, the latest iteration has been developed by seven multi-disciplinary artists: Vix Fowler, Siddharth Biswas, Kirsten Munro, Sarah Ku, Göksu Gündüzalp, Lucas Sheridan, and Ukinebo. The experience and pieces centre around a mysterious tech empire called Dividual. This rapidly growing multinational sells products designed to be addictive, divisive and coercive. Behind an overly sweet facade, their true business model is to steal your dreams and then sell them back to you.