Digital Pulse turns the Workshop Café and Cowley Road Studios into a public-facing digital surface — displaying sound-reactive visuals, community-created artwork, student projects, generative design, and live creative experiments.
Digital Pulse is a merging of arts, community and technology. It combines an indoor display, shopfront LED mesh, sensors and generative systems to create a living, reactive visual environment on Cowley Road.
Audio, motion and environmental sensors feed live data into the Digital Pulse engine.
Custom software (p5.js / shaders / AI-assisted pipelines) transforms the data into visuals.
The content appears across the café-facing screen, indoor displays and future façade upgrades.
Digital Pulse invites contributions from Oxford's creative community — from generative artists and coders to illustrators, music producers, writers, youth groups and grassroots organisations.
Local art, neighbourhood stories, cultural archives and student work.
Generative geometry, breath-reactive visuals, movement-based projections.
Café mythos, whimsical characters, surreal animations, hero drinks.
We run beginner-friendly workshops teaching digital art, creative coding, sound-reactive visuals and sensor design. The project is open to emerging talent, local schools and community groups.
Digital Pulse transforms 118 Cowley Road into a shared cultural landmark — a place where public art is accessible, interactive and alive. It supports local talent, enriches Cowley Road's nightlife and identity, and turns the building into a beacon of creativity.