Exhibitions & Festival Commissions

Exhibitions & Commissions

A sonic and tactile installation designed for blind, visually-impaired and sighted visitors alike. By Alberto Ruiz Soler and William Fairbrother. Produced by Lighthouse.

If I Could Get To You

Still from If I Could Get To You by Amaal Said. Commissioned by Lighthouse.

Informals II Installation

by Polina Medvedeva, Andreas Kühne & Brighton’s Young Artists. Photo: Jamie MacMillan.

Distorted Constellations

by Nwando Ebizie.

Last Dance: The Wave Epoch

by Haroon Mirza, Jack Jelfs, Elijah & Gaika.

5,000 Miles

an immersive audio experience by ITHACA. Commissioned by Lighthouse.

Alternate Realities II

exhibited by Lighthouse as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest and Brighton Digital Festival 2019. Photo: Leonardo Lami.

Alternate Realities

exhibited by Lighthouse as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest and Brighton Digital Festival 2018.

Protean Sap

Still from Protean Sap by Tuomas A. Laitinen. Co-commissioned by Lighthouse.

Lighthouse produces an accessible programme of exhibitions, new artwork commissions, performances and events all year round.

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Wednesday 24 May 2023, 8-9:30PM

Event

Commissions

Whose Anthem is it Anyway?

A raucous night of musical improv, comedy and democratic process hosted by Charlie George.

Comedian Charlie George fronts artist Amartey Golding’s new project, in an attempt to tackle the impossible task of delivering a new national anthem in just one night. Can we find a way to bring the room, if not the nation, together to create a song that represents what we’re really about?

23-26 March 2023, 12-6pm

Exhibition

Imagined Places

An exhibition of projects commissioned by the Sussex Co-Lab

Lighthouse presents an exhibition showcasing the outcomes of an intensive 3-month residency by three creative teams commissioned by the Sussex Co-Lab at the University of Sussex.

Thursday 23rd March and Friday 24th March 2023

Exhibition

'New Worlds' Immersive Experience

Installation and Performances by Electronic Music Producer and AV Artist Halina Rice

A new immersive experience transforming space with 360 visuals and spatial sound.

2-4 September 2022, 12-5pm

Exhibition

GUTS (The Enchanted Forest) 2022

MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION

Enter an immersive landscape where the internal meets the external creating a liminal space between our bodies and the world outside

Adjust your VR headset and step inside a surrealist painting.

21-30 January 2022

Exhibition

Paso

Exhibition by Alberto Ruiz Soler and William Fairbrother at Fabrica

An immersive, sensory installation, 'Paso' is a memorial to an extinct migration route: the chalk land bridge that once connected Britain to Europe.

17-27 November 2021

Exhibition

Bring Me To Heal

Touring exhibition by Amartey Golding comes to ACCA

Amartey Golding's largest work to date, it encompasses an ornate handcrafted garment, two films and a photographic series that applies rituals of healing to the concept of White British Trauma.

29 October - 7 November 2021

Exhibition

Commissions

If I Could Get To You

Audio-visual work by Amaal Said

An audio-visual work that uses interviews, film and photography to explore the process of knowing our personal histories and documenting our experience of them.

Interactive Installation by Ifeatu Nnaobi

Ifeatu Nnaobi's interactive installation invokes deeper questions of heritage and connection for Black and People of Colour living in the diaspora.

4-17 October 2021

Commissions

An Echo For My Father

Short film by Jamila Prowse (2021)

In this moving image work, the artist traces relationship with her late father Russell Herman, a South African jazz musician, while sewing wall hangings in real time.

2020-2022

Exhibition

Digital Democracies

Co-produced by Lighthouse.

Leading UK Art Festivals connect to create innovative digital work for public spaces across the country.

22 May - 13 June 2021

Exhibition

The Informals II - Installation

Brighton Festival 2021

The Informals II is an improvised documentary experience: an exhibition and performance by artists Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kuhne, in collaboration with emerging talent from Brighton's music subcultures

Film premiere & release: March 2021

Commissions

Carrying Us (2021) - Elsa Monteith, Hazel Davis, Adam Laurence

Part of Future of the High Street by Historic England

Carrying Us is an audio-visual patchwork that explores the past, present and personal of Brighton’s high street through spoken word and video collage. Produced by Lighthouse.

1-31 May 2021

Exhibition

HERstory

Brighton Festival 2021

HERstory is a city-wide audio storytelling experience that uncovers the stories of women usually hidden from history.

25-26 May, 6am-10pm

Exhibition

5,000 Miles

Brighton Festival 2021

Through spatial audio technology and ambisonic 3D recording, 5,000 miles is an immersive 360-degree audio experience that transports you to another place.

September-October 2020

Exhibition

Protean Sap (2020) - Tuomas A. Laitinen

Presented by Lighthouse.

Augmented reality Instagram filters and single-channel video work inspired by protein structures of viruses, bacteria, and other microbial life.

June 2020 - present

Exhibition

Lighthouse Young Creatives Showcase 2020

Meet Brighton's future creatives.

Digital Showcase of fresh talent straight from our mentoring scheme online on our website.

17-26 July 2020

Exhibition

Hexagonally

MA Digital Media Arts 2020 Degree Show.

Cutting-edge online exhibition brings artists together in the time of COVID-19 pandemic.

6-12 July 2020

Exhibition

Selected 10

Produced by videoclub and Film London Artists' Moving Image Network.

Online screening of up-and-coming video artists, selected by Film London Jarman Award nominees.

Friday 22 November 2019

Event

Exhibition

Genetic Automata (2019) - Larry Achiampong and David Blandy

Exhibition of film-based works exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, video games and DNA ancestry testing.

12-20 October 2019, 12noon-6pm

Event

Exhibition

Alternate Realities 2 (2019)

Brighton Digital Festival 2019

Three immersive artworks from the internationally acclaimed Sheffield Doc/Fest programme.

4-19 May 2019, 12noon-7pm

Event

Exhibition

Distorted Constellations (2019) - Nwando Ebizie

Brighton Festival 2019

Enter an alternate Afrofuturist reality, inspired by research into the neuroscience of perception and drawing on rituals of African origin.

30 November 2018

Commissions

Last Dance I & II

Last Dance short films.

Two shorts from Lighthouse & Boiler Room 4:3 looking into the rapid changes affecting UK club culture.

22-30 September, 11am-6pm

Event

Exhibition

Alternate Realities (2018)

Brighton Digital Festival 2018

Exploring the themes of borders, identity, and loss through different technological platforms – gaming, AR, social media and interactive installation.

Thursday 29 June 2017

Event

Exhibition

Finding Fanon (2017) - Larry Achiampong and David Blandy

Films, talks & vinyl presentation.

Achiampong and Blandy present an exploration of race, identity and globalisation.

6-28 May 2017

Event

Exhibition

Collisions (2017) - Lynette Wallworth

Brighton Festival 2017

An intimate, immersive screening of Collisions, by acclaimed Australian artist and director.

7-29 May 2016

Exhibition

Commissions

The Sprawl (2016) - Metahaven

Brighton Festival 2016

Immersive video installation, where award-winning artists and filmmakers Metahaven argue that the internet has become a disruptive geopolitical super weapon.

2-24 May 2015

Exhibition

Commissions

The Same Face (2015) - Joseph Popper

HOUSE 2015, Brighton Festival

Drones, flight simulators and a model landscape.

October 2014 - April 2015

Exhibition

Commissions

A screaming comes across the sky (2014-2015)

An international exhibition curated by Lighthouse.

This new group exhibition, presented at LABoral in Spain, focuses on mass surveillance, invisible wars, and the shock and awe of drone warfare.

4 October - 2 November 2014

Event

Exhibition

Communities, Collectives and Collaborations (2014)

Brighton Photo Biennial 2014

Brighton Photo Biennial is back for a sixth year with an inspiring programme –Lighthouse is pleased to be hosting three of its important events.

Brighton Digital Festival 2014

Lighthouse-curated programme for BDF'14.

Lighthouse has devised a programme centred around two major events: Newstweek – Fact Fixing Bureau (a new exhibition by Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev) and Improving Reality (our one-day conference).

17 September 2014

Commissions

Home (2014) - Holly Herndon

Lighthouse co-production.

Groundbreaking musician and artist Holly Herndon kisses goodbye to the NSA with new song HOME, released with an accompanying video directed by Dutch design studio Metahaven.

3-25 May 2014

Event

Exhibition

The Monopoly of Legitimate Use (2014) - Tobias Revell

HOUSE 2014, Brighton Festival

Technology as territory: new work examining ideological conflicts between network and state.

September-November 2013

Event

Exhibition

Immaterials (2013)

Brighton Digital Festival 2013

Immaterials is a research project and an exhibition comprised of films, texts and objects which make networked technological systems visible.

Brighton Digital Festival 2013

Lighthouse-curated programme for BDF'13.

Lighthouse’s programme included major international artists, experimental artists, writers and technologists, critics and thinkers, and a film programme, which showed how technology is transforming cinema.

4-27 May 2013

Exhibition

Commissions

Under the Shadow of the Drone (2013) - James Bridle

Brighton Festival 2013

In this project, a military drone aircraft makes an eerie incursion into the daily lives of Brighton residents.

14 April – 27 May 2012

Exhibition

Commissions

I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another (2012) - The Otolith Group

Brighton Festival 2012

Turner Prize nominated artists, The Otolith Group, poetically explore the sea as a site of myth, history and socio-political power in a new immersive exhibition.

6 October – 4 November 2012

Event

Exhibition

Education

The Politics of Space (2012)

Brighton Photo Biennial 2012

As well as presenting the exhibition by Trevor Paglen Lighthouse also staged a number of other events and education activities.

Brighton Digital Festival 2012

Lighthouse-curated programme for BDF'12.

Being at the heart of BDF, Lighthouse curates Odysseys, an exhibition by David Blandy, presents Improving Reality 2012 conference, and more.

14 October 2011 - 4 March 2012

Exhibition

Invisible Fields (2011-2012) - Arts Santa Monica

Curated by Lighthouse.

A dynamic major international exhibition that brings the radio spectrum vividly to life.

October 2011

Commissions

20 Hz (2011) - Semiconductor

Co-commissioned by Lighthouse and Arts Santa Monica.

20Hz shows us the relationship between radio waves and sound. The film was awarded the inaugural Samsung Art+ Prize in 2012 and went viral as Vimeo Staff pick.

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