Online exhibition / Careful Networks
Available online now
Careful Networks is a new online exhibition exploring more ethical and sustainable ways of creating and sharing art on the internet.
This archive brings together highlights from our art & digital culture programme from each year, going back to the opening of the building in 2009.
Available online now
Careful Networks is a new online exhibition exploring more ethical and sustainable ways of creating and sharing art on the internet.
Tue 16 Nov, 8.30pm | Free
For this screening, artist Beth Kettel has selected a diverse programme of contemporary and 20th Century artists’ film and video in response to her exhibition The Sound of Somebody Changing Their Mind.
Fri 12 Nov – Sun 12 Dec
The Sound of Somebody Changing Their Mind is a multimedia installation created by Leicester-born artist Beth Kettel
Watching (Blade Runner): runs until Mon 18 Oct
In 'Watching', media artist Ben Bogart has trained an AI programme to ‘watch’ and attempt to recreate classic sci-fi films by breaking them apart and reconstructing them. Part of the Art-AI Festival.
Available online now
Vital Capacities is an accessible, purpose-built digital residency space – the resulting exhibition from the June 2021 residencies is showing online now.
Free to families in Leicester & Leicestershire
Make amazing ‘do-it-yourself’ film and art projects at home with our free Creative Kits for children and families.
Available Now
Downtime is an interactive online artwork by Sian Fan – a quiet spot in hyperspace to take some time out.
Fri 25 Sep - Fri 25 Sep
screen_share is an for artists making screen-based work of any kind to come together, share what they’ve made and talk about it in a friendly and informal environment.
Online now
The Idle Index is an exhibition and online project featuring screensavers created by artists based in, or with links to, Leicester.
Fri 10 Jan – Sun 23 Feb
A multisensory installation centring on Thanatos, an original perfume that evokes the scent of a decomposing body discovered in a woodland.
Sat 15 – Sun 16 Feb, 11am – 4pm
The Spark Festival returns to Phoenix, taking over the building with a host of cutting edge interactive artworks, creative games and amazing animations.
25 Jan 2019
Bodyscapes is a collection of new films by Japanese artists whose use of the body is central to their work
19 – 21 Feb 2019
Don a virtual reality headset, jump on a swing and get ready to be transported into an exhilarating virtual adventure in the VR Playground by Thrill Laboratory.
7 Mar – 14 Apr 2019
Farewell to Thee is an installation by internationally acclaimed artist Bill Balaskas, inspired by a nuclear missile alert that was mistakenly issued in the State of Hawaii on 13 January 2018.
17 May – 2 Jun 2019
Acclaimed German artist Mario Klingemann created a new interactive installation for the Art-AI festival, placing the viewer in the middle of an AI system where two neural networks are pitted against each other.
31 May 2019
Visible Bits Audible Bytes 2019 brought another set of experimental audiovisual art from around the world to Phoenix
19 Jul – 18 Aug 2019
Langoors in the Labyrinth is an experimental game by Indian independent game developers Studio Oleomingus that reflects on memory, exploring how stories and histories are formed and recorded
23 Aug – 3 Nov 2019
Jerwood/FVU Awards 2019: 'Going, Gone' featured two moving-image installations by Webb-Ellis and Richard Whitby, the recipients of this sixth edition of the Awards.
19 Nov – 31 Dec 2019
Three Breaths in Empty Space is an audio-visual installation by Bret Battey, commissioned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our move to the Cultural Quarter
18 Jan – 11 Mar 2018
Changing Places is an exhibition of artists' video curated by Film and Video Umbrella linking the industrial transformations occurring across South Asia with sites of historic significance in Britain.
2 Mar 2018
Visible Bits Audible Bytes 2018 brought more genre defying audio-visual art to our cinema screens.
25 Apr 2018
Electro-Pythagoras is artist filmmaker Luke Fowler’s profile of the pioneering electronic music composer Martin Bartlett.
30 Apr – 13 May 2018
The Kitty AI: Artificial Intelligence for Governance is a video installation set in a speculative future in which an artificial intelligence in the form of a kitten has replaced the governing elite.
26 – 28 May 2018
The Digital Playground takes on a musical theme this year, with a host of activities exploring the world of digital sound and music making.
20 – 24 Aug 2018
Exhibited as part of Journeys Festival International 2018, Future Aleppo blends virtual reality with paper models to rebuild the devastated Syrian city.
25 Oct 2018
This screening was the premiere of 'A Bang, A Bomb, A Lie And A Band That Stands for Something Else', an experimental music video by Beth Kettel commissioned by Phoenix and the ICA.
24 Nov – 23 Dec 2018
Streets Paved with Pearl brought together three works, two created by artist Di Fang, and a third by Di Fang in collaboration with Jiu Society, an artist group based in Shenzhen, China.
10 Feb – 26 Mar 2017
Where Shapes Come From is a film installation by Semiconductor which considers how science translates nature on an atomic scale.
3 Mar 2017
The eighth annual Visible Bits Audible Bytes brought together another set of stunning, genre-breaking audiovisual works to Phoenix.
7 Apr – 21 May 2017
No Copyright Infringement Intended brought together work by a group of artists exploring the relationship between copyright and culture in the digital age
27 – 29 May 2017
Play, learn and create with amazing new technologies at this year’s Digital Playground, part of the Spark Festival
9 Jun – 2 Jul 2017
Discover the filmmakers of tomorrow with Playback – an interactive exhibition showcasing award-winning new short films from across the country
16 Aug – 24 Sep 2017
Mangala For All is an installation by Anglo-Indian design studio Superflux, exploring what India’s space programme means to its people - shedding light on ideas of nationhood, geopolitics and the space race
5 Oct – 13 Nov 2017
Taiwanese artist Wu Chi-Yu explores censorship and national identity in this new film installation Reading List, commissioned by Phoenix and Videoclub in association with Osmosis Festival Taipei.
11 Nov 2017
Little City Studio is a day-long festival of films, discussions and performances exploring process, production and performance in artist’s moving image
19 Jan – 20 Feb 2016
The Canvas of Resonance is an installation by Kenny Wong inspired by the way metal sheets were used to produce sound effects in the pre-digital age.
17 Feb 2016
The seventh annual Visible Bits, Audible Bytes brought more stunning, genre-breaking works of audiovisual art to Phoenix.
23 – 24 April 2016
Canary Songs is a sound and choral performance by the artist Teresa Dillon, inspired by the women who worked in UK munitions factories during WW1.
31 May – 3 June 2016
Come down to the Spark Festival at Phoenix to play, learn and invent with brilliant new creative technologies.
10 Jun – 31 Jul 2016
Framed Expanse was an exhibition of new work by Luci Eldridge and Meg Rahaim exploring how landscape is represented by digital technologies.
24 Sep – 20 Nov 2016
Phoenix is proud to present Mr. Nobody, a solo show of new work by Kitty Clark commissioned especially for our Cube Gallery.
16 – 17 Oct 2016
Phoenix is excited to bring Ocean of Light - an unforgettable experience which immerses the viewer in colour and light - to this year’s Diwali Lights Switch-On.
15 Dec 2016 – 29 Jan 2017
Silent Signal is an ambitious group exhibition that brings together six artists working with animation and six leading biomedical scientists.
6 – 30 Mar 2015
Created by internationally-renowned artist Julian Oliver, The Crystal Line reconstructs a World War One crystal radio as a way to hear about the future of warfare.
22 Apr 2015
VBAB2015 brought another set of stunning, genre-blending works by audiovisual artists from around the world to Phoenix
10 Apr – 8 May 2015
The Fading Afterglow of Creation brings together the work of Leicester-based artists Dave Briggs and Jack Squires, and explores the ways fact and fiction combine to shape how we see ourselves in an increasingly technology-driven world.
26 – 29 May 2015
Immerse yourself in amazing interactive experiences at Phoenix for The Spark Festival 2015.
7 Jul 2015
Both Sides Now explores the political and social connections and differences between the UK and China & Hong Kong, bringing together artworks that investigate nationhood, individuality and power.
23 July – 24 Aug 2015
Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s is an archival exhibition that looks back at the early tower block pirate radio movement that emerged in the UK during the 1980s, prompting a new musical phenomenon that would change the face of British music as we know it.
27 Aug – 24 Sep 2015
'Whose Gaze Is It Anyway?' is an exhibition that looks at the history of Arab pop culture through printed matter – posters, notebooks, diaries and book covers – as well as film and video.
1 Oct – 29 Nov 2015
'The Gain Line' is a moving-image art work by Ravi Deepres, commissioned to coincide with the Rugby World Cup.
10 – 28 Feb 2014
Site Exploration is an exhibition looking at the way artists use technology to explore our relationship with the environment and the natural physical world
22 Feb 2014
Phoenix and Two Queens present an installation and performance by Oregon-based artist duo MSHR.
12 Mar 2014
VBAB2014 was a one day festival of talks, screenings and performances exploring the relationship between sound and the moving image
13 – 22 Mar 2014
Frequencies (a) by Canadian artist Nicolas Bernier is an award winning installation of sound and light.
27 May – 1 Jun 2014
Our Spark Festival programme for 2014 was packed with amazing interactive digital experiences
27 Jun – 8 Aug 2014
River Studies by Michael Aschauer is an ongoing project that explores how rivers affect people and cultures.
Thu 6 – Sat 29 Nov 2014
The New Incunable Print Shop was an exhibition and working print shop designed by artist collective Juneau Projects where visitors could 3D-print woodblock stamps based on their own drawings and use them to create original prints and artworks.
23 Oct 2014 – 7 Jan 2015
Melt, Splinter and Thread are three new animated sculptural light works by Esther Rolinson.
22 – 24 Mar 2013
Phoenix is partnering with San Francisco software company Cycling ’74 to host Code Control, its second international festival for artists and musicians to explore software which can be used to create unique sounds, stunning visuals and interactive digital art.
13 Feb 2013
VBAB2013 was a series of talks and a concert of experimental film and audio-visual works exploring the relationship between sound a vision
12 Apr – 24 May 2013
After studying the distant cosmos with scientists at the University of Leicester, artist Dave Griffiths has been inspired to create Extinction Event, a new artwork commissioned specially for this exhibition at Phoenix.
14 – 21 June 2013
The pursuit of pleasure is at the heart of this exhibition of films by three leading artists.
29 May – 2 Jun 2013
At Phoenix we’ll be sparking children’s imaginations with a programme packed full of amazing experiences, marvellous activities and family friendly films handpicked for the digital generation.
9 Aug – 7 Sep 2013
Phoenix is working with Two Queens gallery to present a solo show by Benedict Drew, one of the UK’s most exciting new contemporary artists.
18 Oct – 21 Dec 2013
Live webcams feeding images from opposite ends of the globe are the subject of this stunning new exhibition - part of Layla Curtis’s ongoing interactive online artwork Antipodes.
Sun 17 Nov 2013
PixelPyros is a virtual pyrotechnics display mounted onto a massive 60-foot wide screen using state-of-the-art projectors and lasers. Part of Light the Night 2013
7 – 23 Jan 2012
“Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens" ATTENTION STRUCTURE is an international touring exhibition curated specifically for video billboards.
4 Apr – 2 May 2012
More than 800 drawings created using an iPhone as a sketchbook will be displayed in a new exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Simon Faithfull
14 May –10 Jun 2012
Phoenix Square has been invaded by bugs... Can you help us keep the little creatures under control? Part of Spark Festival 2012
16 Jun – 23 Jul 2012
An inspiring multi-screen installation that re-imagines classical Indian performance for the digital age. Part of An Indian Summer 2012
Mon 8 Oct – Fri 9 Nov 2012
Intuition and Ingenuity explores the enduring influence of Alan Turing – the father of modern computing - on art and contemporary culture.
Mon 19 Nov 2012
Three pioneers in the world of digital arts will lead a Masterclass in this free event for artists, students and anyone interested in learning more about the history and practice of this field.
19 Nov – 4 Dec 2012
Symbiotic is an exhibition where the artworks interact with each other, as well as their visitors.
17 Dec 2012 – 31 Jan 2013
Phoenix presents an exhibition of new and recent work by Sebastian Buerkner, one of the most exciting and innovative artists working with animation today.
Nov 20 – Dec 18 2009
In ‘cMatrix12’ Bret Battey shows us a glimpse of a fleeting world that is going through a process of constant transformation
8 Apr – 24 May 2010
AvSeq by Tom Betts is an interactive installation that takes the form of an abstract computer game
4 Jun – 26 Jul 2010
Annie Cattrell’s work captures moments in time, clouds on a particular day, a breath inside a human lung.
6 – 23 October 2011
The Cutting Room present David Blandy's "Barefoot Lone Pilgrim, Issue 1+2 : Origins" and Hetain Patel’s new film ‘Kanku Raga' an exciting mix of reality and fantasy in the cube gallery
7 Nov – 16 Dec 2011
Kaff Mariam and Uña de Gato explore the complex themes surrounding these two medicinal plants, first encountered by Lucas in her local markets in Brixton, south London