First-hand

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First-hand brings together five artists working with experiential technologies.

Touch and feel your way through digital artworks curated for Dreamy Place 2026.

Caroline Beavon – /static, 2026

/static is a maximalist collection of interactive and visual pieces where analogue meets digital. Step into the circle and meet Glitch — a scrollable story of othering and transformation — and Scrollbook — sketchbook-meets-scroll – where ink and pixels coexist. Wires nestle amongst branches, lights guide the way. Leave with a memento in your pocket.

Jasmine Broadhurst & Phoenix Isla Kea – Precipitation Network, 2026

Precipitation Network is an installation that materialises network infrastructure through live environmental signals and renders network activity as a dynamic physical condition. The system measures local network activity, including Wi-Fi traffic, device presence and ambient signal activity, and maps these variables to physical outputs such as light, mist, and motion. Viewers and their devices continuously influence the system, modulating its behaviour in real time and foregrounding their participation in normally imperceptible infrastructures.

Piotr Nierobisz – Silent Sentinel, 2026

Silent Sentinel changes according to where it is seen from. From the side the two profiles separate. From the central axis, reflection and alignment collapse them into another face — an identity that does not physically exist as a single object.

Julian Weaver – Cento, 2026

Cento is a participatory sound installation that draws on plans of Colonel George Gouraud (erstwhile European director of the Edison Phonograph Company) to run for the Brighton Town Council in 1904 and have his election address simultaneously broadcast by 100 phonographs.

Using personal mobile devices (bring your own phone), participants play, mix, and derail Gouraud in real time.