Posted on Fri 18 Jan 2013
Due to extreme snowy conditions we have had to cancel today's lunchtime talk. Our wonderful speaker Kate Pullnger was unable to join us but is has kindly agreed to come back on Friday 1 March - we can't wait! My apologies for any disappointmentVerityStudio Producer
Posted on Fri 4 Jan 2013
Week commencing 2 January:After a very festive Christmas and New Year holiday everyone in the Studio is reenergised and excited to see what the New Year brings! Read on to find out what’s been happening in the Studio this week: Over the holidays Kaspar from nu desine was in Berlin speaking at an…
Posted on Fri 21 Dec 2012
With Christmas just around the corner we’ve combined two weeks worth of news into one very festive blog post, read on to find out about all the recent developments and exciting projects in the St
Posted on Fri 21 Dec 2012
Last Friday we were treated to a brilliant Lunchtime Talk by Artist and Studio Resident Kathy Hinde. Over the autumn, Kathy Hinde has been researching and developing a new vocal work that combines live singing with electronically altered voices. The piece is inspired by how bats echo-locate by using…
Posted on Fri 14 Dec 2012
With Christmas just around the corner the Studio has definitely got that festive vibe! It’s been a week full of exciting events, game launches and residency announcements. Read on to find out more: Excitingly this week brought the deadline for the Playable City Award so a lot of the Studio team…
Posted on Thu 13 Dec 2012
On Friday 30 November we were treated to a Lunchtime Talk on Augmented Reality from Jan Warnstam. Augmented Reality (AR) layers media content onto the fabric of the physical world. It is starting to be found in many contexts but what is it really for? Coming from the world of large-scale immersive…
Posted on Thu 13 Dec 2012
On Friday 23 November we were joined by artist Nikki Pugh whose main area of enquiry is centred around interactions between people and place: often using tools and strategies from areas such as pervasive games and physical computing to set up frameworks for exploration. In the talk Nikki spoke about…
Posted on Wed 12 Dec 2012
This was a big day. Jan at Bedford Creative Arts had been organising equipment setting up and de-rigging for the event on dec 8th - which had been made particularly complicated because we were not able to set up in the morning of the day of the event… Jan had got Bubbles Lighting on the case –…
Posted on Wed 12 Dec 2012
After a 3 week break, we got back together with the Bedford ‘Bat-Choir’ (as they’ve come to be known !). This time we had a chance to rehearse in St Cuthbert’s Hall – which is where we’ll be doing the performance. I invited Ben Salmons, the guitarist from another workshop. He had spent a…
Posted on Wed 12 Dec 2012
After a bit of a break in the project while I was away doing some other things… we re-convened and decided to have a trouble-shooting session.. even though things had been running more smoothly, there were still some issues with the Pi crashing… Matt had a version that had been running pretty…
