A sea-inspired family fun day is taking place in Barrow this weekend.
Activities will take place at Cooke Studios on Abbey Road on Sunday between 11am and 5pm as part of the TIDAL digital arts programme and Signal Film and Media’s current exhibition Troubled Waters.
Participants can paint a sea-inspired VR world in three dimensions using an easy-to-pick-up software called Open Brush with Northern digital theatre duo Leo & Hyde.
Artfly invite you to create weird and wonderful animated sea creatures with a Digital Kaleidoscope using beach materials, your own drawings, reflections and more.
Or visitors can teach their watery reflections how to dance in Slow Water by swaying, twisting and wibbling into impossible contortions in a Family Fish Tank.
Plus families can experiment in finding how movements create ripples, eddies, flows and turbulence in a continuous stream of reflections.
Attendees can get creative and crafty with YappersChappers as they design a series of coastal creature collages as part of this aquatic activity.
The workshops are inspired by Signal’s digital art exhibition Troubled Waters by award-winning Danish artist Stine Deja and Looking Out, Looking In by Cumbrian contemporary artist Zoe Forster.
Troubled Waters borrows from the classical imagery of Monet’s Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies and gives it an industrial makeover and explores how artificial intelligence competes with humans.
Zoe’s work looks at the connections between Barrovians and their relationship to Cumbria’s coastline.
