Portable Pixel Playground comes to Tullie House

An adventure in technology

Admission Free

The Portable Pixel Playground is an amazing new play space created by artists working with digital technology. A bit like an adventure playground, a bit like a work of art, and a bit like a computer game, the playground has been designed to allow young people (and inquisitive adults!) to use everyday technologies in fun and creative ways, providing them with new, interactive and hands-on experiences of art and technology.

Set in Tullie House’s lovely gardens, the all-weather Playground will feature a brand new piece of art commissioned from internationally-acclaimed artists Squidsoup, where you’ll be able to create and affect a physical landscape inhabited by a host of virtual creatures.

The playground will also include an artwork by Finland-based Andy Best and Merja Puustinen: an inflatable “bouncy castle” in which your jumping, rolling and crawling creates a sound sensation.

Come along to the launch event of this exciting new project on National Playday 2008!

The Portable Pixel Playground will then be touring Cumbria and Lancashire for the next two years and returns to Tullie House on 6 December 2008 and 7 March 2009; details to follow in the next What’s On.

The Portable Pixel Playground has been supported by the Big Lottery Fund, and promotional design is by the Rehab Agency www.visitrehab.com