Read, Watch & Listen

We embark on a noctural journey full of passion, transgression and joy as we look at these films exploring what happens in bars and clubs after dark.

Artist Trevor Paglen talks to us about AI bias, the power algorithms can hold, and how images can become a currency in a digital age.

We explore how man-made, physical borders are represented, challenged and transgressed through the medium of film in our November cinema season.

Caroline Sinders argues that social media’s problems are a product of their very design.

What if everything was the same - but it looked better? Emily Downe presents her animated short, 'Better', exploring the ideal worlds of a perfectionist culture.

This poem by R Moulden was the stimulus for Boy Blue's new show REDD

Bitcoin might be faltering, but Bettina Warburg thinks that technology can still reinforce trust online.

Although she won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and directed Marlon Brando to an Oscar nomination, filmmaker and director Euzhan Palcy’s work remains neglected in the UK, and her films are rarely shown. Here are three things you should know about the director.

Don’t be so sure, says Adam Greenfield, as he explores the thinking and impacts behind social credit. 

What makes a good violin? Violin maker and restorer, John Dilworth, investigates the history of violin making.

In the third workshop of our Life Rewired inspired Design Yourself project, our young creatives worked with artist Matthew Evans in a workshop that turned the Barbican into a composition using pixel sonification.  

Documentary maker Cecilia Valensise explores the transhumans already walking amongst us in the latest film in our Life Rewired Shorts series.