Digital Creativity Institute
Creating a thriving ecosystem for digital creativity across Yorkshire and beyond.
The Digital Creativity Institute is a region-wide initiative bringing together researchers, creators and communities. We work together to engage communities and support creative practitioners and organisations.
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Our expertise
Digital creativities is at the heart of research across many of our centres, schools and departments:

Explore our work
Take a look at some of the projects our people have led, using new digital technologies to explore different ways of looking at the world:
- Streetlife - exploring York's history through creative project
- SAFFIRE Choir - a virtual performance with the BBC Singers
- AI and virtual studios - working with dock10 to explore how AI can tackle the challenges of filming in virtual studios
- Pioneering theatre R&D- working with the Royal Shakespeare Company to lead work bringing live performance capture to theatre
Support for digital creativities research
York is home to industry-leading facilities and support.

Sector-specific support for research
- Archaeology - Archaeology Data Service
- Heritage sites - Heritage 360
- Screen - XR Stories
- Live performance - CoSTAR Live Lab
- Esports