In the last couple of weeks, we hosted a colour-splattered feast, simultaneously launched both an app and Paul Archer off a giant crane and debuted synchronised, LED hula-hoops at Brixton Academy.

Sabrina Shirazi hosted a of Cuisine+Colour feast at At-Bristol last week, as part of Bristol Food Connections. Cuisine+Colour is a feast where tablecloths and napkins become the canvases for vibrant artworks, created using the natural dyes in food. Diners leave any notions of table manners at the door, as they are invited to eat in new and different ways, spreading as much colour around as they can, transforming the table from a crisp white into a lively composition of every delicious shade you can think of. After the meal, diners had their portraits taken with their napkins. Thanks to the brilliant work of our Creative Technologist, David, as the portraits were taken, they were projected onto the Watershed café/bar ceiling at the event’s afterparty. Visit Cuisine+Colour's Instagram to see some of the photographs from the event, featuring a few bespattered members of the Studio team.

Daredevil Project’s competetive photo sharing app, Duel officially launched in the UK this week. To celebrate the launch, the Daredevil team challenged CEO Paul Archer (who has a bit of a fear of heights) to bungee jump from a giant crane:

Anagram are back from their star-spangled success at Tribeca Film Festival in New York, where they bagged a Storyscapes Award for their immersive documentary, Door Into the Dark. They are now embarking on a few other exciting storytelling projects, one of which involves the Tower of London and another, rummaging through historical treasure-troves with the West Midland Archive Forum. We’ll keep you updated as their projects progress.

Strange Thoughts, alongside developing their mind-controlled beer-pouring robot, have quietly been working away on some other, equally fantastical projects. A couple of weeks ago, they launched their interactive, synchronised LED hula-hoops at Jon Hopkins’s sell-out Brixton Academy show. Here’s a video of the hoops in action:

Laura Kriefman found herself at No. 10 Downing Street this week, talking to the Director of the GREAT campaign. Her relationship with the GREAT campaigns started this February in Shanghai, and it looks likely she will be working with them a lot more closely in the future. 

Rosie Poebright has been setting up camp in the middle of Southend’s Chalkwell Park to develop her NetPark project. MetalCulture have commissioned five artists to develop digital artworks for the area, which will become the world’s first digital art park. At the beginning of the project, the artists got together for a three-day workshop with locative media experts, Calvium (who also happen to be Studio residents) to explore how to create apps that map narrative to location. Rosie is getting ready to head over to Costa Rica to FORWARD/STORY, a 4 day lab bringing together an international group of writers and designers, to venture into unchartered territories of storytelling.

This week, Rik Lander conducted a demo of his headphone experience, Haply. He has been developing tailored, participatory mini-dramas for conferences and events, in which delegates don headphones and each become a different character with the help of an app. Rik feels that allowing people to become someone else frees them up to be more creative and gives them perspective on their own thought processes and behaviours. This work developed out of Rik’s previous project, the Memory Dealer, which won the Royal Television Awards Innovation Award in 2014. He has just published a Journal of Sonic Studies dedicated to the project.

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