by Claire Douglass, BOM Visitor Experience Assistant Hello, we’re back in the BOM building with our freshest exhibition, Atmospheric Encounters being installed as I type. The gallery and Café may have been closed but what did we get up to…
By Melissa Grant, written as part of ‘Atmospheric Encounters‘, BOM’s exhibition 19 May – 28 August 2021. A whole new perspective can be gained from being aloft in a balloon. Far from the violent wrenching experienced when taking off in…
From BOM Fellow and Artist …kruse. As a neurodivergent person and creative practitioner, I am very aware that generally the arts are not accessible to someone like me. Which is a shame because A) there are a lot of someones…
Hi! Claire here. Pre-lockdown, I was BOM’s gallery assistant. Social media forays often require me to research the creative practices of BOM programme participants. The background reading for the upcoming Art & Tech Summit, has seen me flying into an…
BOM has been selected to lead a team in developing ambitious ideas during the R&D project for Festival UK* 2022. We are one of 30 shortlisted Lead Organisations, working in partnership with creative practitioners and experts across the STEAM sectors…
Mood Pinball by BOM Residents Ben Neal, Edie Jo Murray and Harmeet Chagger-Khan -and produced by BOM – is to have an exciting update coinciding with the ODI Summit 2020 today. The project now has a dedicated website at www.moodpinball.com…
I was fortunate enough to take part in a creative coding course, the Art of Code, run by generative artist Jessica In (SheDrawswithCode). Over 3 weekends she taught the basics of writing code in Processing to create a piece of…
BOM has been working on a series of projects focussing on air quality, how technology might improve our health, and the ways art could help to generate interest in this important contemporary issue. Often in partnership with Francis Pope –…
BOM’s Digital Producer Ben often gets asked about software and electrical platforms that creative people use, and we thought it might be good for him to share some of that info on video. Maybe you’ve heard of the tiny Raspberry…
By Kanyi Wyban In the wake of Covid-19, artists around the world have been called upon to act broadly, bearing responsibility as crucial cultural players. The moment has largely been categorized as a pandemic and one that demands reactive, therapeutic…
Towards the end of 2019, BOM Director Karen travelled to Nairobi Kenya. She was there with Dr Francis Pope from University of Birmingham’s Environmental Sciences department as part of The ASAP Project. The project is a University of Birmingham research…
Check out Doodle, our first online exhibition. Originally conceived as a hands-on interactive gallery show, this is our fabulous, interactive, virtual version. Artist / Producer Holly Gramazio has been working alongside BOM Curator Louise and digital producer Ben to create…
Spring 2020: We were delighted to bring three amazing practitioners to our Art & Tech Social series. We worked with the brilliant team at Eyebeam in New York City, to curate some fascinating discussions. Eyebeam run a Resident programme annually,…
This weekend Somerset House brings online, their Now Play This! festival. The newly virtual festival unites a creative community of makers to explore playful and participatory ways to bring people together through games and play. BOM is all about playful…
Just before COVID-19 brought a halt to global movements, BOM delivered an important engagement project in Ethiopia based on the air quality research campaign, ASAP East Africa. We got involved following an invitation from Francis Pope, Professor of Atmospheric Science…
