Lovebytes presents Digital Spring - a festival of art, science and technology at venues across the city of Sheffield, 22-24 March 2012.

Join us for an exciting programme of interactive exhibitions, live art, performance, workshops and educational projects. All events are open to the public, and many are free of charge.

Tickets are now available from the Showroom Cinema box office
tel. 0114 275 7727 or to book online click here. All events are £5/4 or FREE. See individual event listings for details

Download a handy schedule in PDF here.

At the heart of this year's festival is Intuition and Ingenuity, an exhibition celebrating the life and influence of Alan Turing, one of the greatest minds Britain has ever produced. From inventing the digital computer and helping to decode the German Enigma machine to founding the science of artificial intelligence, the world today would have been a very different place without his ideas. Intuition and Ingenuity marks the centenary of Turing's birth, with new works by international digital art pioneers and emerging contemporary artists, including Roman Verostko, Ernest Edmonds, boredomresearch, Patrick Tresset, Anna Dumitriu and Alex May.

The Lovebytes Spring Fayre is a fun, family-friendly event in Sheffield's Winter Gardens, offering a range of art, science and technology related activities to challenge and inspire young minds of any age. The event includes Victorian drawing machines, a headphone-only music festival, theremin performances, wandering 'artbots' and workshops in creative computing, animation and photography.

Heading up the music strand of the festival is Pattern Discovery - a programme of experimental sound art in the surroundings of one of Sheffield's hidden treasures. In the daytime, Jana Winderen presents her immersive sound installation Spawning Ground in the beautiful Upper Chapel on Norfolk Street. Jana is one of the world's foremost field recording artists, whose work explores the sonic environments of aquatic creatures and the movements of ice flows. Following this, the evening moves to other sonic extremes with live performances from Bruce Gilbert, Russell Haswell, Peter Rehberg and Marcus Schmickler; an exceptional line-up to invigorate the senses.

Throughout the festival, there is a strong emphasis on experimentation, new ideas and unleashed technological creativity across a wide range of forms and genres, from music and film to physical computing and live notation. Megadork is an extraordinary edition of Dorkbot, the international network of events that began in New York and spread around the world. This informal variety show is for people interested in electric and electronic art in the broadest sense; robotics, kinetic art, microcontrollers, interactive art, algorithmic music and net.art, presented by engineers who want to be artists, or artists who want to be engineers, or the otherwise confused.

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What is Lovebytes?
Lovebytes is an independent, non-profit arts organisation, based in Sheffield. We provide a platform for creativity which crosses boundaries between art, technology and science, offering an inspiring range of events for the digital age, including exhibitions, installations, performances, participatory projects and workshops.

The Lovebytes Festival was established in 1994, and is the longest running event of its kind in the UK, attracting a vibrant mix of media professionals, artists and technologists, young people and families, with over 75,000 visitors in 2010.

Our educational projects introduce thousands of young people to digital art and the creative and digital industries; developing digital literacy and creative skills through a wide range of playful and imaginative arts activities.

To get a flavour for what we do, take a look at our previous work in our archives and documentation.

For further information email: info@lovebytes.org.uk.

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Last Updated 17 March 2012, 11:40am by Lovebytes.