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.

Contact us

Digital Creativity Network

digital-creativity-network@york.ac.uk

Project spotlights

ReframeVP: A project that is challenging inequality in Virtual Production through collaboration with the screen industries.
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

Upcoming events

CHI PLAY 2026: The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) will take place in York from 2 to 5 November 2026. CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI).
Digital Cultural Heritage online workshop: Express your interest in participating in an online workshop co-hosted by Virginia Tech's Center for Humanities and the University of York's Humanities Research Centre and Faculty of Arts & Humanities. The workshop will bring together researchers from the two universities to share projects that involve the creative use of technology to explore culture, the arts, and/or history to share ideas for future collaborations.

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.