Join us for a special Open Studios Day as we open to the public the Digital Art Centre six floors of creative workspaces in Camden.
Explore the latest work of a community of 140 artists, makers, and designers, meet artists in their studios, and gain insight into their creative environments and practices.
Drinks will be served in the foyer with music.
Alongside the open studios, visitors can experience the wider programme across the building, including the exhibition Soft Bodies, Cold Machines by Ambie Drew, a Media Wall screening by Maya Man, an exhibition tour with Head of Programmes Pita Arreola, and the launch of PURE PROFIT by Raza Tariq.
PROGRAMME
12:00pm - Soft Bodies, Cold Machines exhibition opens
1:00pm - Artist Studios open
2:00pm - FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT Media Wall screening
2:30pm - PURE PROFIT guided activation tour with Raza Tariq
3:00pm - Soft Bodies, Cold Machines exhibition tour with Pita Arreola
5:00pm - Studios and bar closing
6:00pm - Soft Bodies, Cold Machines closes
ARTIST BIO
Ambie Drew is a multidisciplinary artist based in Worcester. Her practice interrogates how digital consumerism and artificial intelligence shape the construction of gender and female identity online. Working across moving image, sculptural installation, and text, Ambie adopts a hyperfeminised alter ego to explore the consequences of living in a heavily mediated world where the physical and digital exist in constant flux. Incorporating obsolete technologies, her work reflects on how intimacy, memory, and reality are entangled with internet culture and machine-driven desire.
Maya Man is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the internet. Her websites, generative series, and installations examine dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, and the performance of self online. She has exhibited internationally at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; bitforms, NYC; SOOT, Tokyo; Verse, London; House of Electronic Arts (HeK), Basel; and the online platform Feral File. She has been invited to speak on her work at The New Museum, NYC; The V&A and Tate Britain, London; and MOCA, Los Angeles. Maya organises a curatorial project called HEART, previously run out of her studio in SoHo, NYC.
Raza Tariq is a London-born conceptual artist whose work examines ritual & technē as coextensive systems. In a world where technology and its influence become invisible, he asks what form visual traditions surrounding shared ideas of an “invisible” take, resituating the Islamic as conceptual occurrence rather than classical object.
CURATOR BIO
Pita Arreola is Head of Programmes at arebyte, and the co-founder of Off Site Project, a curatorial platform supporting emerging artists working with new media. Through her independent practice, she has worked with over 200 international artists. Pita was Curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2021-24). She is also co-editor of Digital Art: 1960s–Now a publication exploring the histories of digital art.