This week we’ve assembled a crack team of mischief-makers to take part in Bristol’s Daredevil Tournament, we had our last Future Documentary Sandbox session and Stand + Stare have installed their interactive exhibition Everyday Relics in Manchester. Read on to find out more:    

Last week we ran the world’s first magic hack, bringing together magicians and technologists for 2 days to develop new ideas. The final showcase featured everything from mind reading gongs, voodoos dolls, possessed picture frames and balloons that exploded on command. You can read more about the showcase here, and find out more about the process and learning from the two days in a blog that Kieron, one of our magicians in residence, and organiser of the hack has written here. Also don’t forget that Kieron and Stuart (our magicians in residence) are doing a showcase of everything they have developed over the course of the last few months on 4 December at 6pm, you can book tickets here.

On Wednesday REACT held their final Future Documentary Sandbox workshop. Matt who is the producer for Future Documentary Sandbox explained that it’s been a transitional few weeks at #docsandbox as all the teams moved into the final period of making, refocusing and making again, all in the spirit of Sandbox experimentation. He’s published a blog on the REACT site, which explains more about what the six teams have been working on and their processes so far, so do have a read, and stay tuned for the date of their showcase event soon.

Stand + Stare have had a busy few months preparing for the launch of their new interactive exhibition Everyday Relics at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), Manchester and their new show at the Tobacco Factory The Eye of the Hare. In Everyday Relics visitors are invited to choose from eighteen carefully selected objects from the MOSI handling collection, which are brought to life through projection, audio and touch technology. All of the objects are, or were at one time, considered ‘everyday’. The stories they tell are about ordinary people throughout Manchester’s rich industrial past. As conduits for these stories, the objects, which the public can touch and hold, become cultural relics to be cherished and treasured. Everyday Relics MOSI, Manchester from 25 Nov 2013 - 29 June 2014.

Constance Fleuriot and Tim Kindberg have been thinking about how to turn Tim's book Shadows of Marrakech into a graphic novel. The book is visual in its conception, and there is beauty and darkness and goodness, with striking characters from various parts of Africa, plus all the colours and spices of (Cracked) Marrakech. It would fit the form well, and be a good candidate for crowd-sourcing, e.g. via Kickstarter or Unbound, with opportunities to mention contributors or draw them into the story. The script remains to be adapted from the book, and all the illustrations created. Are you an illustrator, a graphic novel author, or anyone else who would like to get involved? You can read the book here and then contact Tim Kindberg at shadows AT champignon.net.

nu desine are pleased to announce this week that a limited run of the AlphaSphere nexus series is now available for purchase throughout Europe, after launches in Japan and the USA earlier in the year. You can buy the nexus model through their online web store where they are currently offering free shipping on all UK orders placed before Christmas.  In other exciting news, UK post-hardcore band Enter Shikari recently closed out their headline slot at the Warped Tour in Alexandra Palace with a segment performed on an AlphaSphere elite2013. You can watch a video of the performance here.

Next week Stand + Stare’s show For the Eye of the Hare is opening at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol Lucy and Barney have been working with their Dad, Pip, to bring his 30+ years experience of documentary filmmaking to the stage.Through this autobiographical piece, Pip explores the threads of continuity in his family, a serious accident, and the act of story telling itself. By juxtaposing broad themes like his love of landscape with intimate details such as the feel of his mum’s dress, Pip weaves together a story that relates to all of us. Working with a 16mm film editor’s pic-synch and a live camera feed projected on stage, he guides the audience through the processes of editing. As he cuts and splices, the multi-layered story of his life unfolds through personal archives, paintings and poetry. You can watch Eye of the Hare at The Tobacco Factory's Brewery Theatre, Bristol Tues 26 Nov 2013 - Sat 30 Nov 2013. Tickets can be brought through the Tobacco Factory Theatre box office on 0117 902 0344 or via their website here.

Today at 1pm our new Studio resident Joshua Barnes will be talking about his project Communication Quilt which he is developing during his three month Graduate and New Talent residency with us. The Communication Quilt acts as a means to combat separation issues experienced by children undergoing long stays in hospital by giving friends and family of a child the opportunity to 'augment' digital messages to them, thus providing an alternative platform for interaction of which the fun and magical nature of the technology particularly appeals to the child. Simultaneously the object itself provides a physical sense of comfort to them. Inspired by a 'Post-Digital' design thinking the Communication Quilt is a project that looks to forge new hybrid meanings in an object for its user by synthesising together the digital with the physical in novel ways, and borrowing what is meaningful from eras both past and present. You can also find out about our other new residents Silas Adekunle and ANAGRAM in a brilliant blog post by our Studio Producer Verity here.  

Then in the evening the Studio has assembled a team to take part in Studio resident Paul Archer‘s Daredevil Tournament in Bristol as part of Movember. Daredevil tournaments are a new and exciting way to explore the city and make mischief as you’re tasked with acting out one word challenges in the most create and exciting way.  The tournament starts from Watershed and culminates in a party at the Crofters Rights where the winning team will be announced. Get yourself a ticket here if you think you can beat us!