• Glimmers
    From Brighton Station, Queen’s Road, Brighton, Sunday, September 1, to Monday, September 30
     

Inspired by the lost phone messages that never arrived at their destination, Glimmers is a sci-fi treasure hunt created by Brighton-based Rolemop based around an iPhone app that can be downloaded during the festival.

Jubilee Library, in Jubilee Street, has a limited number of devices available on Saturday and Sunday afternoons which can be booked through the website.

  • Celebrities On Celluloid
    Community Base, Queen’s Road, Brighton, Sunday, September 1, to Monday, September 30, 9.55am, free, www.oskabright.co.uk

Ahead of November’s Oska Bright Film Festival at the Corn Exchange, film-makers with learning disabilities have created new portraits of some of Brighton’s historical heroes – including Martha Gunn, Harry Cowley and Maria Fitzherbert.

  • Dot Dot Dot – A Game Of Digital Consequences
    Online event, Sunday, September 1, to Friday, September 27, visit www.newwritingsouth.com/BDF

Best-selling Brighton crime author Peter James is launching this multimedia spin on the Victorian parlour game of consequences, organised by New Writing South.

He will be posting the first cliffhanger ending of the Brighton-based mystery on Sunday, which will be taken on different tangents by poets, prose writers and performance artists using YouTube, Soundcloud, Facebook, blogs and Twitter.

The end result will be revealed at The Writers’ Place, in Jew Street, on Friday, September 27, but anyone can get involved through the website or by using the Twitter hashtag #NWSDigital.

  • The Royal Pavilion: A 19th Century Googleplex?
    Royal Pavilion, Pavilion Gardens, Brighton, Sunday, September 1, to Monday, September 30, 9.30am to 5.45pm, admission from £5.25, 03000 290900

Brighton-based musician and writer Chris T-T has penned a new alternative audio tour of the Royal Pavilion aimed at makers, technologists and nerds, looking at the 19th-century innovations in George IV’s pleasure palace.

The tour can be downloaded as a free audio podcast to be listened to alongside, or instead of, the official audio tour.

  • Dial M For Murder
    Duke Of York’s Picturehouse, Preston Circus, Brighton, Tuesday, September 3, 6.30pm, £10/£7.50, 0871 9025728

Today's 3D technology divides cinema audiences between those who find it a completely immersive experience and others who get a headache after ten minutes.

But trying to bring the action out of the screen is nothing new, as this restored version of Hitchcock’s 3D thriller starring Ray Milland and Grace Kelly proves.

The screening will be followed by a debate on the ever thorny issue of 3D technology.

  • Improving Reality Conference
    Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, New Road, Thursday, September 5, 11am, £24/£12, 01273 709709

The third Improving Reality conference organised by Lighthouse asks how artists, technologists and writers are subverting our notions of reality.

Among the guest speakers are Yale University’s Keller Easterling, artist and synthetic biologist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, science writer Frank Swain, “gonzo futurist” Justin Pickard, and artists Timo Arnall and Tobias Revell.

  • The Sound Of The Wind In The Trees
    The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, Thursday, September 5, 7.30pm, £10/£8, 01273 201801

Elderly people from Melbourne, Victoria, New York, Adelaide, London and Brighton And Hove share their thoughts about the common human predicament in Simon Wilkinson’s multimedia production.

The Sound Of The Wind In The Trees combines large-scale projections and video sequences with a live soundtrack of reverb-drenched retro electronic instruments, loops and classical strings from the quartet Collectress.

  • SoundScreen
    Corn Exchange, Church Street, Brighton, Thursday, September 5, 8pm, £7, 01273 709709

Pop-Up Brighton brings together video art and live music for one night, following six weeks of collaborative workshops.

On the live music bill are former Download Of The Week stars Phoria and The Hundredth Anniversary, alongside Luo.

And providing the visuals are Asaturrs, Barry Anderson, FishBoy, Florence Barkway, Jack Bonnington, James Cheetham, Jim Howells, Joseph Rodrigues Marsh, Daisy Emily Warne, Marco Barneto, Melissa Kitty Jarram, Patrick Rowan, Phil Mayne, Richard Gladman, Rory Cahill, Rowan Briscoe and Tavan Maneetapho.

  • Spirit Of Gravity
    Green Door Store, Trafalgar Street Arches, Brighton, Thursday, September 5, 8pm, £5, www.spiritofgravity.co.uk

The monthly celebration of experimental music from the outer limits hosts an all-digital line-up.

On the bill are innovative electronic and sampling composer John Wall; Baconhead, whose music draws on jungle, dubstep, breakcore and techno influences; and vintage samplers and digital improvisation from Ian Murphy and Nicholas Langley, as well as the ever-popular interactive electrocreche.

  • For more information visit brightondigitalfestival.co.uk