FACT Liverpool

📣 OPEN CALL: We are delighted to launch our 2026 open call for three paid Digital Artist Residencies! Based at FACT Liverpool, these 18-week residencies are open to early-career artists living in the North West of England and North Wales. Each resident will receive £4,500 to develop a digital artwork using Unreal Engine, supported by Lucid Games Ltd, DaDaFest, and Homotopia. Artists will receive workshops led by Lucid Games, and curatorial and creative mentoring from FACT and their chosen partner organisation. No experience with Unreal Engine is required. We are seeking applications from people with a variety of practices, interested in world-building and using Unreal Engine as a creative tool to make artworks that give audiences agency to alter narratives. To hear more about the residencies, the application process, and ask any questions, sign up for our Online Information Session on Fri 13 Mar at 17:30. Discover more, and apply by Tue 31 Mar → fact.co.uk/open-call

"Everything we do starts with artists." 📢 Last week, we shared a preview of FACT’s 2026 programme: a year shaped by agency, AI, world-building and cultural inquiry. From Milia Xin Bi’s invitation to “just go and play” in Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? to Rachel Maclean's question of who shapes creativity in the age of machines, to Seema Mattu's folk-punk mythologies and Sahjan Kooner's freedom to dream. 2026 is about asking better questions of the technologies shaping our lives. We’re interested in cultural inquiry, not technological advocacy. Read more about what’s coming up ↓ --- Nicola Triscott | Maitreyi Maheshwari | Claire McColgan CBE | Charlotte Horn | Nina Newbold | Seema Mattu

Introducing Digital Crip Camp, a new 14-week paid programme supporting early-career producers in developing immersive narrative projects centred on accessibility! This programme embeds accessibility at the earliest stage of immersive production, presenting techniques adopted within immersive projects and addressing critical questions: What does access mean in immersive production? Can we design immersive experiences with access at their heart? Swipe to learn more, and apply by Sun 22 Feb → fact.co.uk/crip-camp 〰️ Digital Crip Camp is delivered by FACT Liverpool, supported by the British Film Institute (BFI) Creative Challenge Fund awarding #NationalLottery funding. Developed in consultation with DadaFest (Disability and Deaf Arts) and tialt (there is an alternative).

🛠️ We're hiring: Lead Technician 🛠️ This full-time role sits within FACT’s Exhibitions and Programme teams and is responsible for meeting the technical needs of FACT’s artistic programme. Each year, we support, commission, and collaborate with dozens of artists and creatives, offering career-enhancing opportunities to develop and present ambitious new work. The Lead Technician is a key point of contact across projects, working closely with artists and external suppliers, managing FACT’s technical resources, and ensuring our technical capabilities are used to their fullest potential. ✨ 35 hours per week, permanent contract ✨ £30,000 per annum ✨ Apply by Tue 3 Mar → fact.co.uk/jobs 〰️ 📸 Jenkin Van Zyl, Surrender (2023) Installation view at FACT. Photo by Rob Battersby

We're thrilled that Studio/Lab at FACT is a finalist for Creative/Media Organisation of the Year at the LCR Culture and Creativity Awards! Creative/Media Organisation of the Year is a brand new category that celebrates leadership, innovation, and impact within the creative media sector, through production, development, or other creative and commercial achievements. Studio/Lab supports a vibrant community of artists, researchers, curators, and technologists whose practice is critically engaged and digitally focused. Thank you to Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Culture and Creativity Awards, and congratulations to our fellow finalists Sound City and ArtsGroupie CIC. 💖

We are delighted to welcome and celebrate the UK Government’s announcement of a £1.5 billion investment package to support cultural organisations, arts venues, museums, libraries, and heritage buildings across the country. This landmark funding commitment is designed to secure the future of creative spaces and ensure that arts and culture can flourish for everyone. At FACT, we know firsthand the power of culture to connect, inspire, and strengthen communities. The Government's funding to the sector will: ✨ Support essential infrastructure and maintenance so creative spaces can remain open and welcoming ✨ Expand opportunities for people from all backgrounds to experience world-class arts ✨ Help protect thousands of cultural jobs across the sector ✨ Promote inclusive access to creativity across England Investments like this foster innovation, nurture talent, and open doors to new audiences, both locally and beyond. Here’s to a future where culture thrives, and many more people across the country can access and enjoy the arts 🙌

Liverpool 🤝 Manchester We’re excited to announce Double Agents: Play and Performance in Digital Worlds: a collaborative seminar series from FACT and School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Bringing FACT’s artists and curators together with SODA’s research and teaching, the series explores how artists use digital technologies to tell stories, perform the self and question the systems we live within. 📍 School of Digital Arts (SODA), Manchester 🗓 Monthly on the fourth Thursday, January - April 2026  👥Free and open to everyone 🎟️ Booking required, book via FACT website → fact.co.uk/double-agents

🪼 Be the first to see our new exhibition, Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria?, at the exhibition launch on Thu 5 Feb! Curated by our Curator-In-Residence Milia Xin Bi, Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? explores our evolving relationship with intelligent technologies, and the evolving dynamics of subjectivity, agency, and co-evolution between humans and machines. Featuring works by Vytas Jankauskas, Jan Zuiderveld, and Joseph Wilk, this playful, interactive world asks how our actions influence technological futures - and in a system shaped by AI, who makes the next move? 🗓️ Thu 5 Feb, 18:00 ✨ Book your free spot → https://lnkd.in/eXNH5c5m FACT’s 2025 Curator-in-Residence is generously supported by the John Ellerman Foundation. Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? is supported by Pro Helvetia.

💚 We are thrilled to announce our 2026 exhibitions programme, featuring newly commissioned artworks, locally embedded participatory projects, and major installations by emerging and established artists! 💚 Using playable game worlds and AI technologies, these exhibitions explore quests for greater meaning through the creation of new mythologies rooted in ancestral knowledge, more-than-human perspectives, and acts of congregation and resistance. Discover the full programme → fact.co.uk/2026 Image: Rachel Maclean, O, they serve you get (2026). Digital image. Courtesy of the artist.