Digital Creativity Network
A community of researchers, technicians, PhD students and creative practitioners working in digital creativity.
The Digital Creativity Network facilitates knowledge exchange and collaboration as a vehicle through which University of York colleagues and creative practitioners in the city and region can connect, share updates and form new partnerships.
Discover our research in digital creativities and how we're using digital technologies to explore new approaches, experiences and techniques to look at the world in different ways.
Project spotlights
- Walmgate Reframed: A community heritage project producing new media artwork.
- AI and virtual studios: A collaboration with dock10 that is exploring how AI can tackle the challenges of filming in virtual studios
- Royal Shakespeare Company R&D challenge: An industry-led collaboration that is exploring the creative possibilities of virtual production technologies in live theatre performance.
Upcoming events
- XR Stories R&D talk - Heritage and XR: Three short talks on using extended reality technologies to connect audiences with the world of heritage (30 July 2025).
- CoSTAR Live Lab presents: Building Artistic-Centric Tools: Machine learning in production (20 August 2025).
- Staff Bitesize: What is Artificial Intelligence? An introduction to generative AI tools (4 September 2025).
Focus areas
Spanning disciplines and sectors, our researchers use digital creativity to innovate, solve problems and create new experiences. Our work encompasses both the application of digital creativities and the investigation of their impact and potential.
