Week commencing 19th March

Hello campers, it’s been relatively quiet in the Studio this week, as a lot of the studio residents are
taking the energy of the Studio to partners around the world! A strange blanket of serenity has fallen over the usual hustle and bustle of the studio; in fact I can even hear the gentle tapping of a neighbouring keyboard as I write this to you now, unheard of in our crazy buzzy world! Anyway, what have we been up to?

Clare has been whizzing across the borders checking out Belfast’s creativity month giving a speech about the Internet of Things.

Verity, Stand and Stare , Mutant Labs and some of Nu Desine went off to Semaine Digitale de Bordeaux to show off the studio’s ideas and work and find out about the creative technologies developments in Bristol’s twin city.

The rest of Nu Desine and Tangible FX left us for Frankfurt’s Music Messe where they took part in the trade fair and presented their work to new audiences.

Studio resident Tim Kindberg is in Africa with British Coucil but experiemntal theatre company Mercurial Wrestler have been powering on without him: filming unusual, magical happenings around Bristol which took place this week and a cycle tour around Bristol on Friday which is paving the way for the horses.

Calvium’s latest success with the guardian ‘Streetstories’ audio app for Kings Cross has filled the studio with buzziness and celebration, so congratulations to them.

Red Wasp received an amazing review from wired and T3 which only lays emphasis on how brilliant they are in the world of games.

We welcome Alison Davis to the studio; Alison will be working with UWE as administrator for the REACT programme

The new REACT producers have been hard at it, Matt is getting ready to launch the press release, which will reveal the successful heritage project applicants this week and Jo took a trip down to Exeter to meet
other members of the REACT team.

Vanessa is taking the open city  Guimarães project forward, the project will include curating 4 animated art interventions and 5 think pieces exploring the themes: smart city and governance. The website is soon to launch but until then you can find out about the project here.

David Martin has been working on his paper for application for conference and developing his context aware middleware platform Context Cloud, find out more about context cloud here.

Sam Kinsley from UWE is reading Peter Stoterdijk’s book ‘Bubbles’ the first book in a series called spheres, rethinking metaphysics! Excellent
research Sam.

Seth Giddings has been working on UWE’s new MA/MSc creative media technologies writing module, which will start in January.

Mandy Rose was the only British person present at New Arts of Documentary summit, an invite only one-day summit for mediamakers, technologists, scholars,
curators, and funders. Her invitation underlines Mandy’s significance in media innovation.

Sam and Tim from Bristol University came in to talk to us about their student robotics programme they brought their robot Alice for demonstration and opened our minds to the importance of a computer science presence in schools