HELLO! You have landed on Artfly, makers of playful, interactive digital installations and community art. It's the product of Cumbrian-based creatives Chris and Jennie Dennett. You'll find the latest on all our projects here and (occasionally) on our socials.

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Featured Projects

Barrow Blitz

A series of permanent installations for The Barrow Dock Museum's WW2 area.

Squat Pong

Thigh powered pong! A commission from Full of Noises to create an arcade with a difference.

Technical Tales

Audio recollections about Barrow Technical College presented on an interactive plan triggered by touch.

FON Logo Projector

A silent logo projector for Full of Noises to display in a performance space without the whirring noise from a projector.

Catalyst Proposal

Our unsuccessful proposal to create the Cumbria Arcadia in response the Catalyst Brief.

Place - Re:discover Barrow Exihbition

Art Gene selected some of our work to represent the People's Museum at the Place - Re:discover Barrow Exhibition.

Relax into 2050

Adventures in an Optimistic Future. A playful installation set in a flourishing future where nature and technology work in harmony.

Dock Museum Listening Post

A listening post installation for The Dock Museum's Victorian Parlour using an old gramophone. It features edited tracks exploring memories of Barrow's cinemas, airship aspirations and the violin music of Barrovian musician Matthew Armer.

Digital Reflections - An Arty Family Workshop at Signal Film

A day of family activities with a digital kaleidoscope and twisted reflections at Signal Film.

Windermere Science Festival 2023 - Digital Exhibits

Three digital exhibits for a day of sciencey, arty fun!

Dock Museum Victorian Photo Portal

A permanent live greenscreen installation (without the greenscreen!)

Duke Street People's Museum of Barrow

A pop-up Exhibition come Museum based around the oral history of Duke Street in Barrow-in-Furness.

Kendal Library Kaleida Workshop

Hypothesis - Kaleidoscopes are as cool now, as they were in 1817. Result: OH BOY! YES they've still got it! 😎

Minnie's Scrapbook Digital Exhibits

Three digital exhibits commissioned for the Minnie Pratt exhibition at the Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness.

Hill Fork or Fork in Hill

An antidote to HIGH CONCEPT / LOW FUN public art proposals?

Squid Squad & The Deep Sea Oddity Explorer 🦑

A Squiddy cluster of deep sea themed interactive cabinets! Made for the Coro's 2022 Incredible Journeys Exhibition.

Slow Water, Ether Fish & Kaleida Cupboards

Created for the inaugural Windermere Science Festival reacting to the theme of water.

The Curious Cabinet

Interactive digital exhibit for the Florence Arts Centre's Fruitful exhibition - 19th Feburary - 29th March 2022.

Dorothy Wordsworth Light Sculpture - "In her own words"

Dorothy Wordsworth Light Sculpture in Cockermouth for the Kirkgate Arts 'I Am Dorothy' project.

Kendal Mountain Festival Pixel Portrait

Pixel portraits of Alfred Wainwright and Shauna Coxsey in Kendal Library for Kendal Mountain Festival.

Dorothy Wordsworth School Pixel Portrait

Four giant Dorothy Wordsworth portraits by 120 children with 13,000 stickers!

Last Human - Coro Shed Project

Humanity is no more, but LAMO (Local Automated Museum Outpost) Continues... Part of The Coro's Shed Installation 'Our Earth' project in Ulverston August 2021.

The Gallery Box

A tiny digital art exhibit - our entry for The Great Big Art Exhibition.

Glasgow National Park City Exhibition

Website made for a virtual photo exhibition for the Glasgow National Park City folks.

Fly Tizzie Fly

PAINT and PLAY! - A web game generated using artwork painted by users for the Jetty Museum.

Days of Living Small

Days of Living Small - A display of Cumbrian lockdown poetry.

Another Face Mess

Experimenting with webcam Kaleidoscopes.

World Record Foam Pie Fight

On June 18th 2016, Ulverston splatted its way into the Record books by staging the World’s Largest Shaving Cream Pie Fight.

Lasting Diaries

Everyday history captured by eight Cumbrian diarists

The Gill Witch

Will you let the Gill Witch 'borrow' your face for Halloween?!

Nella Last Pixel Portrait

A community portrait of Nella Last, Housewife 49 in Barrow Library made from 25,000 ration token stickers (Up for Arts Cumbria/Cumbria Library Service).

Trumping Towers

Trump means Trump! A parping tower triggered by a golf ball for Barrow's Full of Noises festival.

Human Rollercoaster

Creating a human rollercoaster flash mob for Another Fine Fest.

Kendal Library Pixel Portraits

A painted pixel portrait of John Ruskin and a sticker portrait of Jodie Whittaker created for the Get Creative Festival at Kendal Library.

Doodle and Dance

Throwing shapes with some webcam trickery at Doodle and Dance in Carlisle for the Get Creative Festival with Zoe Leigh-Gadd of Dance Ahead.

Dalton Poppy Plaques

In commemoration of the young men of Dalton killed in WW1. A Heritage Lottery Fund project with Up for Arts Cumbria & Dalton Town Council.

Mutilated Selfie Booth

Mixing and matching eyes, ears and mouths in gruesome proportions.

Face Tracing at Sage Gateshead

Face Tracing in Gateshead for BBC Radio 3's 2018 Free Thinking Festival on the theme 'The One and the Many' for Get Creative with Up for Arts Cumbria.

Glowing Onions

How to make some beautiful biodegradable baubles.

Ghost in the Machine

An echoing box of machinery with a ghost!

Banana Dance Flash Mob

Dancing in the street with giant bananas! A fruity flashmob for Another Fine Fest 2017 created with Rachael Weaver, Sara Charlesworth and a whole basket of brilliant volunteer bananas.

'Speed of Life' Paint by Numbers

A giant community paint by numbers created with PBN master Geoff Tristram for the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival with Up for Arts Cumbria.

The Door of Perception

A digital thing showing people as a cloud of points or a line drawing for Ulverston's Candlelit Walk.

Other... things!