It hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice here, that when our exhibitions feature things to do that include some kind of playful activity, whether that’s drawing and making, or digital gaming fun, it’s not only the kids that get stuck in. There’s…
BOM has been delivering a fantastic Schools programme over the last 12 months, despite the many disruptions caused by Covid-19. We have worked with more than 400 learners across 11 different schools in priority places across the West Midlands in…
New, free resource?to guide people in understanding their pre diagnosed autism Click to download your own copy of Am I Autistic? BOM’s programmes have been supporting autistic adults to access and thrive in the digital and creative industries since 2018….
We are here because you were there Every exhibition at BOM can be a catalyst for finding new areas to explore, sending some of us off on unexpected journeys around the internet. Continuing in this tradition is Baff Akoto’s immersive…
Having led the technology development for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton, we are announcing a brand new programme as we enter a milestone year for Birmingham, exploring our relationship with Commonwealth communities and presenting new ways of re-imagining sport…
BOM is proud to have played a key role in the creation of the Queens Baton for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Over the last year BOM has led the development of the creative technology and interactive elements of the…
Our decode exhibition is an invitation to re-examine our relationship with data technologies through the work of four extraordinary Black artists and activists, who take on the human and machine generated technologies, subverting them into more supportive and inclusive experiences…
BOM Leads the Technology Development for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton, with Product Designers Raymont Osman, Artist Laura Nyahuye and Fabricators Kajul. The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has unveiled the design of The Queen’s Baton and details of…
The world of public art, long a bastion of municipally-approved artworks imposed on our public spaces, has a new wave of artists taking a radical view as to what art in the public realm could, and should be. Armed with…
We have been running Art & Tech Social since 2017, the idea is to bring people together to explore art and tech with the addition of drinks and a curry! Sadly Covid ruined our chances of sharing a curry over…
Our current exhibition, Atmospheric Encounters, covers the work of the High Altitude Bioprospecting (HAB) team, a group with an extraordinary broad skillset between them, including biochemistry, technology, engineering, robotics, mathematics and art. Bought together by a shared interest in microbiology,…
by Claire Douglass, BOM Visitor Experience Assistant Hello, we’re back in the BOM building with our freshest exhibition, Atmospheric Encounters being installed as I type. The gallery and Café may have been closed but what did we get up to…
By Melissa Grant, written as part of ‘Atmospheric Encounters‘, BOM’s exhibition 19 May – 28 August 2021. A whole new perspective can be gained from being aloft in a balloon. Far from the violent wrenching experienced when taking off in…
From BOM Fellow and Artist …kruse. As a neurodivergent person and creative practitioner, I am very aware that generally the arts are not accessible to someone like me. Which is a shame because A) there are a lot of someones…
Hi! Claire here. Pre-lockdown, I was BOM’s gallery assistant. Social media forays often require me to research the creative practices of BOM programme participants. The background reading for the upcoming Art & Tech Summit, has seen me flying into an…
