About Culture Lab

Culture Lab is the focal point for creative practice at Newcastle University, supporting the work of researchers and students involved in high level, experimental and multi-disciplinary creative arts and interactive technology projects in a world class, cutting edge environment. Our facilities include professional audio and video production studios, high definition cinema projection, motion capture systems, and digital prototyping machinery. We encourage forms of self-sufficiency amongst researchers and students alike through direct engagement with acts of making and creating.

Culture Lab is a partner in Newcastle upon Tyne's vibrant cultural sector. Situated at the gateway to the city, we host a range of public events that include concerts in partnership with local organisers, poetry readings in partnership with the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, and film screenings. We co-sponsor an artist in residency programme in partnership with ISIS Arts, and host a regular series of informal seminars open to the public, the Lunch Bites series. We hold open days for professionals from industry, international visitors, and local school children.

About Culture Lab Radio

Culture Lab Radio is an attempt to find out how academic institutions could further extend their outreach into communities via broadcasting. It is an internet radio station representing both casual and official activities that are anchored in Culture Lab.

We are currently asking academic researchers to help us find ways to share knowledge through conversations. By inviting scholars to present radio show we hope to better understand the boundaries between audio and text as medium of information.

DJs are actively encouraged to experiment with unconventional styles of broadcasting. Those experiments have strongly influenced how the station is run. Some DJs actively engage with their listeners via social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. These novel interactions create discussions and curiosity in groups who would never have heard of Culture Lab otherwise.

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