We are honoured to be the British Science Association Science and the Arts Section Presidents of 2026. We will be giving our Presidential lecture and screening of our work entitled Entangled Futures at the British Science Festival on the 18th September 2026. Our lecture explores efforts to untangle the complexity of the natural world, while
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
In October 2025 we were artists in residence at SPUD in Sway as part of the New Forest National Park Authority, Artist in Residence programme. It was an extraordinary month of immersion in the ancient woodlands of the New Forest as autumn began to shift the colour of the canopy. We spent time with Knowles Beech,
boredomresearch are thrilled that their film Gentle as Moss on Stone received the Rob Knox London Film Festival, Best Editing Award on 6th September 2025. The festival took place at the Central Picturehouse in London with an amazing array of films screened from new and rising talent in the film and TV industry – whilst raising awareness
boredomresearch has been commissioned by Natural Resources Wales (2024) as part of their Natur am Byth! Arts Engagement programme, which aims to connect more people to nature and inspire new ways of seeing endangered species including bryophytes. For this project boredomresearch have been running creative studio sessions with neurodiverse students at Newtown College. Immersing participants
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‘,
For three weeks (23 August – 12 Sept 2021) we have been exploring the source of the River Shannon, in the biodiverse grasslands and bogs of the Cavan Burren, that blanket and conceal an extensive underground network of waterways. We have wandered among boulders transported by glaciers before, finally, coming to rest on the fossilised
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