FACT Liverpool is a

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s centre in

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, England. The building houses galleries, a cinema operated by Picturehouse, a bar, and a café.

History

FACT was established as an organisation focussed on video and new media art, exhibiting and curating the work of artists that had little platform in the UK. FACT was designed by architectural firm Austin-Smith:Lord. When FACT first opened in 2003, it was Liverpool's first new arts building in over 60 years, since the opening of the

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over 60 years prior. FACT is an exhibitor and producer of

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and

digital art Digital art, or the digital arts, is artistic work that uses Digital electronics, digital technology as part of the creative or presentational process. It can also refer to computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960 ...

, and had its 15th birthday in 2018. FACT's first exhibition,

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’s ''Baltimore'', was commissioned for the opening of the building and continued to tour for the next decade. Since then, FACT has presented over 350 new media and digital artworks from artists including

Pipilotti Rist Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist, birth name ''Elisabeth Charlotte Rist'' (born 21 June 1962 in Grabs) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abst ...

Nam June Paik Nam June Paik (; July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a South Korean artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" ...

, Haroon Mirza,

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Wu Tsang Wu Tsang (born 1982 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a filmmaker, artist and performer based in New York and Berlin, whose work is concerned with hidden histories, marginalized narratives, and the act of performing itself. In 2018, Tsang received a ...

and

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Apichatpong Weerasethakul (; ; , born 16 July 1970) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, film producer and Professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Apichatpong h ...

Exhibitions and events

FACT supports, produces and presents visual art that includes creative media and digital technology. In 2007 Picturehouse at FACT hosted a Question and Answer session with

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for the UK release of ''

Death Proof ''Death Proof'' is a 2007 American slasher film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Kurt Russell as a Stunt performer, stuntman who murders young women with modified cars he says are "death-proof". Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito ...

.'' In 2015 as part of an exhibition named ''Follow,'' FACT exhibited an artwork in which

Shia LaBeouf Shia Saide LaBeouf ( ; born June 11, 1986) is an American actor and filmmaker. He played Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series ''Even Stevens'', a role for which he received Young Artist Award nominations in 2001 and 2002 and won a Dayt ...

answered phone calls from the public. FACT is a partner venue of

Liverpool Biennial Liverpool Biennial is the largest international contemporary art festival in the United Kingdom. Since its launch in 1998, Liverpool Biennial has commissioned over 380 new artworks and presented work by over 530 artists from around the world. ...

and showed works by

and Mohamed Bourouissa for the 2018 edition. Also in 2018, FACT commissioned the immersive art installation ''AURORA'' at Toxteth Reservoir with artists Invisible Flock, and exhibited ''Broken Symmetries'', an international exhibition co-produced by FACT, Arts at CERN, CCCB, Barcelona, Le Lieu unique, Nantes and iMAL, Brussels.

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Exhibitions and events

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