This week we’ve got loads of fantastic opportunities for you to get involved with, and lots of lovely Studio news. Read on to find out about what our brilliant residents have been up to...  

We are excited to announce we are looking for creative technologists, artists and coders to join us on a musical adventure as part of #BristolProms; Hack The Quartet taking place 30 July - 1 August 2013.  Bristol Old Vic Hacking the Quartet will bring together 15 – 20 talented and curious participants to collaborate with the Sacconi Quartet to make a range of technology-driven explorations of the chamber music world. The hack will last two days, ending in a showcase event at lunchtime on Friday 1 August, where audiences will hopefully get to see and hear some of the work created. Additionally as this year’s Proms is the first of a three-year programme, we hope the hack will generate and prototype ideas that could be commissioned as part of the programme for next year. To find out more and apply visit the Watershed website.  

REACT have just announced the dates for their Objects Sandbox Ideas Labs. New technologies embedded in real things can allow objects themselves to tell us their stories and start conversations outside of performance, page or screen. This sandbox will bring the skills of artists, makers and researchers to explore the look, feel and potential of this new area of work, often referred to as the Internet of Things. The Ideas Lab will be an integral part of the bidding process for Objects Sandbox. They are being held in Cardiff, Exeter and Bath, find out more on the Objects Sandbox website.

A reminder that Watershed and National Theatre Wales are looking for 12 brilliant creative Digital Producers, to take part in Wales’ very first Digital Producers Lab development programme, produced by Watershed. Participants will explore different aspects of creative technology production including: how to develop brilliant ideas, project management, making business sustainable, Intellectual Property, and pitching to clients and funders. They will also have the chance to unpick a host of best practice case studies and dabble in a little creative tech development of their own. For more information and how to apply, visit the Watershed website.

This month nu desine have been busy making a range of tutorial videos which will demonstrate various ways of using the AlpahaSphere, and they are about to make an announcement about an addition to the their product line, which they have been developing alongside the AlphaSphere elite. They also spent the end of May at KAIST university, South Korea, one of the world's leading Engineering & Technology universities, where they shared the AlphaSphere with leading researchers from the fields of computer music, human computer interaction, musicology, electrical engineering, dance, composition and many more. They have also just published their first paper about the AlphaSphere which you can download here.

Last week Studio resident Victoria Forrest published her app Thames Trail on the itunes store here. The Thames Trail brings the industrial and shipbuilding heritage of the Greenwich riverside to life in a very 21st century way. The app contains archive material from the National Maritime Museum and Greenwich Heritage Centre as well as specially commissioned audio interviews with local residents and historians. Whilst on the photowalk, take your own photographs of the riverscape as it is today and publish them on the Viewfinder Photography website (www.viewfinder.org.uk) and Thames Trail Flickr photostream (www.flickr.com/photos/thamestrailgreenwich). You can download the app here.

Will Luton has been gearing up to run 10k for the charity SpecialEffect. SpecialEffect facilitate gaming for disabled children, by offering everything from advice and game loans, to specialised controllers. You can read Will’s blog about it here.

Next Friday we have a very special talk as part of Bristol Green Week 2013 from Bristol-based engineer Matthew Venn.  Because not many of us are interested in graphs or numbers Matthew has found a new way to bring data to life – with robots. Since last year Matthew’s ‘Polarbots’ have been drawing pictures on walls in response to energy use – the pictures change as the power goes up or down. But Venn realised any live data could be visualised this way and now with help from Bristol Council, he and his collaborators have built a website that transforms data into art in real-time: www.CursiveData.co.uk. The ever-changing pictures that result can be drawn by Polarbots or embedded in websites. You can find all our upcoming talks on our website here.