We create immersive, artful experiences using creative technology, blending storytelling with innovative tech to captivate and inspire audiences.
POLYMATHIC began with a cardboard dome - an immersive structure built for Bath's Fringe Arts Festival that projected selected artworks across its interior. What started as a personal project amongst friends unexpectedly revealed something much bigger.
As audiences stepped inside, it became clear that creative technology wasn't just a tool for academic research or commercial spectacle: it had tangible power to reshape how people connect with culture, play, and experience the world together.
Following that first installation, POLYMATHIC was founded. A series of projects across Bath's cultural landscape quickly followed: immersive film partnerships, projection-mapped playgrounds, live-coded visuals, and playful public installations. Each one proved the same point: people hunger for cultural experiences that are emotionally engaging, accessible, and immersive, and organisations need production support to deliver them with confidence.
To create the experiences and infrastructure that help culture thrive. We design immersive events that transform how people connect with heritage and storytelling, and we build open digital tools that help the sector measure, understand, and advocate for its impact.
A cultural sector empowered by technology it owns and understands - where immersive experiences are accessible beyond London, where organisations have the data infrastructure to prove their worth, and where creative technologists can build sustainable, values-led careers in their own communities.
We work across three areas: designing immersive experiences for cultural spaces and events, building shared digital infrastructure for the sector, and investing in the people and networks that make culture stronger. Each part reinforces the others - because sustainable impact requires both front-stage experiences and back-stage systems.
We build from within the cultural sector, not for it. Technology should strengthen creative communities, make culture more accessible, and help the sector understand and prove its own value. We're practitioners first - embedded in the same networks of collaboration and shared learning that sustain the industry.
We're a network of practitioners deeply embedded in the cultural sector, not vendors selling to it. We invest in the ecosystem that supports us.
We build systems and tools that outlast individual projects. Whether it's a productised formats, an open data platform, or a network of collaborators - we prioritise what can be shared, scaled, and repeated. We do love a one-off occasionally too though.
We don't pitch concepts we can't execute. Technical complexity, safety regulations, heritage contexts, we take full responsibility for delivery in live public settings where the work has to actually perform. Talk is cheap; shipping is everything.
We bridge arts, culture, and technology, communities that don't naturally overlap. This dual fluency lets us translate between worlds, broker collaborations, and spot opportunities others miss. Strong networks compound over time.
We share knowledge, release tools as public goods where possible, and mentor emerging practitioners. The sector gets stronger when capability is distributed, not hoarded. We benefit when others succeed.
Doing good work requires paying people properly and building resilient businesses. We pursue profitability not as an end goal, but as the foundation that allows us to invest in community work, R&D and long-term infrastructure.
We back emerging artists, subsidise mentoring, hire locally, and create paid opportunities for creative technologists at career-defining moments. Individual talent compounds into collective capability, and that's what builds a scene worth being part of.