Our collaboration with Bios continues with the Modern Pioneers Festival, which we are running for the second successive year. The festival is a month of British innovation on the theme of electronic games and will include live shows to demonstrate the most innovative trend in music today: the circuit-bending technique – the transformation of electronic games into seminal music instruments.

Participating artists include the legendary avant-garde British group Die Trip Computer Die, and multi-talented cross-media artist Kaspar Koenig (27 December), who will also conduct a circuit-bending workshop in which participants will be encouraged to creatively 'bend' any kind of old or vintage machinery.

DJ sets will constitute a module called 8-bit music, which will be thematically aligned to the music made with the help of classic computer games.

Film screenings will show the parallel universes of computer games and their transformation of reality: eXistenZ, Videodrome, Tron, The Last Starfighter and more.

Other sessions will include screenings of the classic British television series The Prisoner and Doctor Who.

The festival will also include special installations that reinterpret popular video-games through new-media tools.