AR app brings portraits to life in new display celebrating black British achievement today

AR app brings portraits to life in new display celebrating black British achievement today

The National Portrait Gallery’s largest acquisition of portraits of Afro-Caribbean sitters has gone on public display for the first time in Black is the New Black: Portraits by Simon Frederick a new display at the Gallery. The display brings together exceptional figures from the world of politics, business, culture, religion and science, photographed by artist […]

Virtual Reality Comes to Tate Modern for Modigliani

Virtual Reality Comes to Tate Modern for Modigliani

Tate and HTC VIVE are pleased to announce a new partnership for Tate Modern’s major upcoming exhibition, Modigliani. Visitors to the gallery will be able to enjoy a new integrated virtual reality experience right in the heart of the exhibition, the first of its kind at Tate, vividly enhancing our understanding of one of the early […]

Will O’Rourke, Code on Canvas and Sutu complete AR art exhibition for The Galeries

Will O’Rourke, Code on Canvas and Sutu complete AR art exhibition for The Galeries

The Galeries, an official sponsor for Art Month Sydney, recently commissioned Code on Canvas and its creative partner Sutu to create an Augmented Reality exhibition as part of its campaign, The Artists’ Playground ’17. The exhibition produced by Will O’Rourke, features works from artists around the world which come to life with sound and animation […]

New app puts the Serpentine at your fingertips

New app puts the Serpentine at your fingertips

Starting in the summer of 2016, the Serpentine Galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, have launched a free mobile guide app which will offer visitors extra content, interviews and curated tours. The Mobile Tours will engage visitors through the Serpentine Gallery and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery and Pavilion with a fresh, digital take on art. Free […]

New smartphone app shows how cancer treatments work

New smartphone app shows how cancer treatments work

Cancer Research UK scientists have launched a new app, Tumour Takedown, for smartphones and tablets that shows how some cancer treatments work. The new app, developed in collaboration with Centre of the Cell, was unveiled at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. It allows the public to test out three different cancer therapies on a […]