Get Your Hands-Dirty with Creative Tech
Peckham Digital showcases London’s most exciting creative computing communities, with performances, drop‑in workshops and interactive artworks.
Dive into creative tech with those most engaged with exploring all its possibilities and capabilities.
Peckham Digital has been providing audiences with ‘hands-dirty’ activity for the past four years: hands-on workshops with the aim to create something which is easily replicable at home. The ‘hands-dirty’ practice demystifies the idea that technology is only for specialists.
Immerse yourself and get your hands dirty with engaging drop‑in workshops, fascinating performances and innovative interactive artworks.
Featuring: AlgoRhythms, Compiler, enorê, Future Inventions, Identity2.0, In-grid, Lady Ludd, Lagtime Seedling, London Community Laptop Orchestra, London Pattern Club, Moth, MUSICxCODE, Clara Che Wei Peh, Permacomputing, Phreaking Collective, Rock and Robots, Shaheer Tarar, THE UNSEEN and Ubeboobey (Annike Tan).
Peckham Digital showcases creative computing communities grounded in a ‘do-it-with-others’ approach that foregrounds collaboration, peer learning and accessible pathways into digital practice.
This event has been curated by Bea Taylor Searle, the co-founder and co-director of Peckham Digital and a member of SORI Collective (Speaking Out, Reimagining Institutions) – a group of forward-thinking cultural programmers shaping the future of the arts – as part of Southbank Centre Presents.
Peckham Digital is a community interest company that hosts an annual festival celebrating creative computing.
Bea Taylor Searle one of nine programmers within the Southbank Centre Presents cohort. She is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (with Creative Computing) from Central Saint Martins and a PGCert in Digital Curation from Salford University, where she explored methods for documenting artworks that incorporate soon-to-be obsolete technologies.
Creative Intelligence is commissioned and produced by the Southbank Centre. Curated with PACT – Planetary Art Culture Technology.
Need to know
For your visit
This event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall Southbank Centre
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is open from 90 minutes before events start until they finish. It’s closed at all other times.
Plan your visit
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is home to both our second-largest auditorium and the Purcell Room.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
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Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.