Digital arts festival
28 August - 6 September 2020
Welcome to Electric Medway!
The festival is now over, but you can still enjoy much of the work on our website.
There were over 70 events to inspire and bring people together.
It happened online and outside. The programme included: live theatre, VR, geolocated audio, interactive film, coding, illustration, workshops, talks and much more.
Events were released over 5 virtual zones: Connection, Nature, Play, Dreams and Hope.
Take a look now…
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A Medway Futuricity by John Vincent
Watch this surreal short film, set in a future Rochester
- Date: 04/09/2020
- Venue: Online and Electric HeART, Pentagon Shopping Centre, Chatham, ME4 4HY
Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind by MESS ROOM
Engaging video stories from Medway’s blind and visually impaired community
- Date: 28/08/2020
- Venue: Online
Persephone’s Dream – 3D fragments by Fat Lady Opera
Listen to a 3D sound piece offering fragments of a new opera
- Date: 03/09/2020
- Venue: Online
Beacons of Hope by Manisha Dusila
A series of graphic illustrations exploring ‘hope’
- Date: 05/09/2020
- Venue: Online
MEDWAY: A Game of Cones by Nick Ashton
Play this immersive ‘choose your own adventure’-style game set in Medway
- Date: 02/09/2020
- Venue: Online
Above and Below the Water Line by Jehane Markham
An audio poem inspired by the maritime history of East London
- Date: 28/08/2020
- Venue: Online
Nothing Can Separate Them: Twinprov’s Virtual Improv Show!
Watch comedy improv and virtual director technology in action!
- Date: 04/09/2020
- Venue: Online
Minimus Mobile Picnic
A live streamed socially-distant picnic, featuring improvised sound experiments
- Date: 06/09/2020
- Time: 2:00 pm
- Venue: Facebook Live
Portal by Cybersaur Arts
Use trigger sensors to bring a shop front installation to life
- Date: 02/09/2020
- Venue: Electric HeART, Pentagon Shopping Centre, Chatham, ME4 4HY