Birthday by Sam Winston: 12 hours of life and death

As part of Death: Southbank Centre’s Festival for the Living, Sam Winston is creating a pop up registry office in Royal Festival Hall as part of his Birthday project, commemorating the quarter of a million lives that are born and die in the space of 12 hours around the world. Come along to join in [...]

Ebooks, vinyl and depressive eggs..

Over a million people found an ebook reader under the tree this Christmas, and we’re not just about paper here at Hayward, either. We have produced the perfect accessory for your new iPad® in our groundbreaking new ebook, Pipilotti Rist: Eyeball Massage. Pipi’s vivid and interactive world is perfect in digital format, with ‘rollover’ images [...]

Ether 2011: Digital artist Klaus Obermaier on revamping The Rite of Spring

Klaus Obermaier, digital artist behind The Rite of spring in 3D, in conversation with Southbank Centre’s Head of Contemporary Culture, Gillian Moore. GM: How have you managed to integrate a live dancer, live orchestra and screen? KO: Stereo cameras and a complex computer system transfer the dancer Julia Mach to a virtual three-dimensional space. Time layers [...]

Imagine Children’s Festival visual identity

Our annual Children’s Festival Imagine starts at Southbank Centre this month for three weeks. Here are illustrator Spencer Wilson’s designs for the Imagine visual identity. Headlining Imagine Children’s Festival is the star of the US family-music scene, Dan Zanes and Friends. See Dan Zanes and Friends as part of Imagine Children’s Festival at Southbank Centre’s Queen [...]

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