Our paper accepted for publication at UbiComp
Posted on: 8 Aug 2011
The Open University, Extant and Adam Spiers of ‘Rusty Squid’ are delighted that our paper ‘Haptic Reassurance in the Pitch Black for an Immersive Theatre Experience’ has been accepted for publication at UbiComp 2011 Papers and Notes.
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Broadcast and podcasts of Writing Stage live now!
Posted on: 6 Aug 2011
Weekly podcasts of Writing stage via Aculco’s internet radio station starting on Saturday 6 August 4.30pm
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Guerilla Science – Secret Garden Party
Posted on: 5 Aug 2011
Adam Spiers was invited in July to present a demonstration of the Haptic Lotus at Guerrilla Science summer festival event The Secret Garden Party
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Extant is looking for a project manager to work on our British Council Youth in Action project
Posted on: 5 Aug 2011
Extant is looking for an experienced Project Manager for an exciting new youth project funded by the European Commission and the British Council.
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Extant at Outsiders Independence Day - 4 July
Posted on: 13 Jun 2011
Extant's Cracking Cane Dance will feature as part of Independence Day – a celebration of independence of single disabled people (and couples on a journey). NB – change of venue.
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Extant in Disability Now
Posted on: 10 May 2011
We've just been told that there's a great write-up about Extant in Disability Now!
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Arts Council NPO funding awarded
Posted on: 31 Mar 2011
Extant is very pleased to announce that we will continue to receive support from Arts Council England from 2012-2015 as one of their National Portfolio Organisations. In 2013/14 we will receive a raise in our grant to further develop our artistic programme.
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Extant presents burlesque at the BBC Cultural Diversity Network event
Posted on: 11 Mar 2011
Amelia Cavallo will be performing at the BBC Cultural Diversity Network event, marking the launch of the BBC’s tenure as Chair of the CDN.
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Dance Stage film now available
Posted on: 11 Mar 2011
Dance Stage was a professional development programme for visually impaired adults, which ran from October – December 2010.
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Podcasts of Writing Stage scripts …coming soon!
Posted on: 10 Mar 2011
In development: a radio mini-series about Writing Stage, Extant's professional development programme for visually impaired adults, which ran from October 2010 to January 2011.
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Extant at the Live Art Development Agency’s Access All Areas symposium
Posted on: 23 Feb 2011
Access All Areas was a two-day public programme reflecting the ways in which the practices of artists who work with Live Art have engaged with, represented, and problematised issues of disability in innovative and radical ways. It ran from Friday 4 March from 19.00 and Saturday 5 March from 12.00, 2011 and was organised by […]
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Human Computer Interaction Conference
Posted on: 10 Aug 2010
Janet VanDerLinden of the Open University will be presenting a paper on The Question at the mobile HCI (Human Computer Interaction) conference, in September 2010 in Lisbon Portugal.
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