Games Night & Closing Celebrations
To celebrate the closing of the show and residency, Morris invites you to join a games night inside Modal gallery. All games being exhibited will be available to play and audiences are also welcome to bring their own hand held consoles or tabletop games. This is an opportunity to play, meet like-minded people, enjoy free food and beverages and squeeze in some final critical conversations as part of Sandbox.
Sandbox is part of Commons, a joint commitment by Abandon Normal Devices and the School of Digital Arts (SODA) to platform emerging art forms and push the boundaries of digital practice. Devised as a prompt to rethink our approaches to digital practices, the programme and ask explores if we can develop new models for commissioning, experiencing, interpreting and preserving digital art that reflect the inherent values of digital culture.
Commons is a unique programme fostering innovative approaches to digital practice, inviting digital practitioners to draw upon new opportunities for collaborating, making and resourcing. Selected artists have been invited to showcase recent works whilst developing new and ambitious projects within a community of artists, researchers and technologists.
This programme is a collaboration between Abandon Normal Devices (AND) and Modal gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts (SODA). AND is supported with public funding from Arts Council England.