We are pleased to announce that Robots in Distress by boredomresearch is included in the exhibition AI and the Paradox of Agency at Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden (13 March 2026 – 17 January 2027). The exhibition brings together international artists examining how agency, human and machine, is negotiated, contested and embodied in the age of artificial
boredomresearch is pleased to announce their solo exhibition Spring Fall at SPUD, Sway from 1-30 May 2026. Spring Fall is a meditation on memory, impermanence, and the incalculability of loss in the natural world. A moving image installation transfigures the final fall of a bark-stripped beech tree in Bolderwood, New Forest. Leaves dance in defiance of
A new experimental film by boredomresearch,‘The Cavanoids Dance’, will launch as part of Culture Night (23 Sept 2022) in Cavan Townhall gallery, Ireland and be exhibited until 3 November 2022. In ‘The Cavanoids Dance’ you experience the beauty of the Cavanoids, fictional creatures created by boredomresearch. The Cavanoids have been asleep in the rocks of
boredomresearch’s ‘Paisley Pearls’ software will be generating new forms in two coinciding installations, at the Aberdeen Music Hall, Scotland (24 May – 2nd July 2022) and the Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem in the ‘Paisley: A Princely Pattern’ exhibition (27 May – 15 April 2023). The work is a derivative of our ‘White Cart Loom‘,
boredomresearch are pleased to announce their solo exhibition In Search of Chemozoa at Aspex Portsmouth from 19 May – 25 July 2021 as part of their 40th-anniversary programme. The multi-channel moving image artwork is a poetic response to world leading research studying cancer across species. boredomresearch developed In Search of Chemozoa during residencies at the
boredomresearch solo exhibition Restless Balance is at the Arizona State University (ASU) Art Museum, Arizona from the 5 Dec 2020 until the 24 April 2021. From the textbooks of ancient Greek physician Hippocrates to current research on the coronavirus pandemic, we know that human health is impacted by environmental factors. boredomresearch have collaborated with leading
boredomresearch are exhibiting the first part of their Anthrobiotica (2020) film in Mar Menor Reset Exhibition at the Center del Carme Cultura Contemporània, València (28 October 2020 to 10 January 2021). Anthrobiotica is a video artwork depicting an underwater world of microbiological life inspired by the stressed environment of the Mar Menor in Murcia, Spain.
boredomresearch are screening their film AfterGlow (Susceptible, Exposed, Infected, ‘Recovered’) in the ArtScience Museum, Singapore in their onscreen Seeing Systems programme (3-31 August 2018). The artists participated in the ArtScience Conversation Event on the 18th August 2018 where they spoke about the research and development of their art and science collaborative project, commissioned by Animate Projects,
boredomresearch are exhibiting their video installation The Ultimate Fate of Jeremy Fisher at Wray Castle, Cumbria in the exhibition The Women of Wray Castle: Convention and Control from 2 March – 25 November 2018. The animation exploits Beatrix Potter’s magical aesthetic to introduce a major issue of our time that would undoubtedly have received her
boredomresearch are exhibiting the next iteration of their Robots in Distress simulation in the Our Friends Electric Exhibition at QUAD, Derby (1 July – 10 September 2017). “There has been a glut of recent news reports that obsess with the idea of robots and AI replacing humans in the workplace. We fear apocalyptic scenarios of AI machines rebelling against us; yet advances in robotics,