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Manipulating the evidence with deepfake technology

How can you be sure that the person speaking on the screen is genuine? Find out how sophisticated digital manipulation is blurring the boundaries between real and ‘deepfake’.

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A Drop in the Ocean: internal reality

This immersive audio piece was designed to give listeners a greater understanding of psychosis, something that’s hard to explain in words.

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Charged bodies

Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.

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Martina Amati on ‘Under’

Visitors experiencing Under by Martina Amati

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  • Electricity: Benjamin Franklin's electro-static generator. Watercolour painting.
  • Electricity: electro-static equipment. Engraving, [late 18th century].
  • Electricity: an electro-static machine charging three Leyden Jars. Engraving.
  • Electricity: electro-static equipment. Coloured engraving, 1804, by J. Pass.
  • Electricity: an electrometer attached to an electro-static generator. Engraving, 1769.
  • Electricity: J. Cuthbertson's electro-static generator. Engraving, 1804, by W. Lowry.
  • Electricity: a large electro-static generator, and other experimental apparatus. Engraving.
  • Electricity: a large electro-static generator, on an isolating frame [?]. Engraving.
  • Electricity: J. Cuthbertson's electro-static generator, batteries, etc. Engraving, 1804, by W. Lowry.
  • Electricity: various belt-driven electro-static generators. Engraving, 1812 [by W. Lowry ?].
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