This week brought us sunshine, ice cream, and better still, the announcement of this year’s Playable City Award winners, Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier with their project, Shadowing. The studio and twitter is buzzing with positive reviews about Studio projects that made their way up to Sheffield DocFest and we give the last call out for applications for this year’s Studio artist residency.

The winning Playable City Award project has been announced! This September and October, Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier will give memory to Bristol's city lights, enabling them to record and play back the shadows of those who pass underneath. Have a look at the Playable City website to get a glimpse of what is to come from these two brilliantly talented artists. They will begin to develop their project in the Studio next week, so we’ll keep you updated about specific details of the project, as they emerge.

On the subject of ‘Playable Cities’, a project film chronicling international initiative Recife: The Playable City has just been posted online. Made by the fantastic Ton Ton Films, the piece features documentation of the labs in Bristol and Recife that we ran earlier this year, thoughts from partners and participants, and footage from the amazing Showcase marking the end of the lab, which culminated in a party on the Streets of the Brazilian city. Watch it here.

A good number of Studio related projects made their way up to Sheffield DocFest in this last week. The Nth Camera team gave some talks and demonstrations, Anagram installed Door Into the Dark, and some of the Future Documentary Sandbox projects presented their interactive Documentaries, developed here through the REACT programme. A brilliant Indiewire article called 'Now This is How to Do Immersive Storytelling' has just been written about Studio Start-up Anagram's immersive documentary project, and Ingrid Kopp, the Director of Digital Initiatives at the Tribeca Film Institute wrote a lovely tweet about the experience, saying "Door Into The Dark is incredible. Really blew my mind. Kind of experience where the world feels different afterwards."

Following the brilliant Objects Sandbox Work in Progress Show that REACT held in the Studio on 3 June, Objects Producer, Tom Metcalfe has written a blog post about the projects, their prototypes, how far they have come, and where they are headed.

If you are an artist interested in creative technology and seeking time and space to think, share and make new work, now is the time to apply to our Studio Artist Residency. The deadline is on Monday, so get your skates on if you want to be in with a chance of becoming part of the fabric of the Studio.