This week we’ve been mainly looking forward to some fantastic events we’ve got coming up over the next few months. In July we’ll see the launch of our brilliant Playable City Award winning project Hello Lamp Post and we’re super excited about our involvement in Bristol Proms. Read on to find out about these events and more:

This summer #hellolamppost invites you to tune in to the secret conversations of the city and communicate through lamp posts, bus stops, post boxes and other street furniture. Part game, part story, anyone will be able to play by texting in a unique code found on the city’s familiar street objects. The Playable City Award is a new commission that challenges creative people to use new technologies in surprising and engaging ways. Hello Lamp Post by London-based experience design studio PAN, was chosen from 93 applications from around the world, and will be produced and installed in Bristol this summer, before being toured internationally. You can visit their awesome new website to watch a trailer of the project here.

Don’t forget we are looking for brilliant 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 2 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.  

Also of part of #BristolProms Watershed is showing Jan Lisiecki: From Every Angle. The phenomenal Canadian/Polish pianist Jan Lisiecki is a singular talent, whose renditions of Mozart and Chopin have earned him fans and awards throughout the world. Watershed will be screening a very special interpretation of the live performance at Bristol Old Vic, using multiple close-up cameras. You can watch a trailer here and book your tickets on the Watershed site.

If that wasn’t enough, our lovely residents danceroom Spectroscopy are taking care of the visuals for Nicola Benedetti: Vibrations at #BristolProms. Ever wonders what happens to the atmosphere around a performer when they play? How much energy does playing the violin create? Inspired by Paganini's legendary concert in this theatre in 1831, the prodigiously talented Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti MBE, another former BBC Young Musician of the Year, and a Classic Brit Award-winner last year, plays a special Bristol Proms set, combining virtuoso solo pieces with the exquisite emotion of Tchaikovsky's great trio. Accompanied by danceroom Spectroscopy's award-winning visualisations, Nicola's dynamic playing will be used to construct real-time visual representations of how energy fields guide atomic motion. You can find out more and book tickets on the Bristol Old Vic site.

This week Hazel Grain was interviewed for an article in Western Daily Press how Bristol’s ‘creative cool’ effects its economy, in which she mentions Knowle West Media Centre and the Studio. You can read the article here: ’Festival culture leads the South West's crusade of cool.’

Earlier today we published a write-up of the brilliant Lunchtime Talk that Studio resident Nello Cristianini gave last Friday. Nello is a professor of Artificial Intelligence within the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the University of Bristol and joined us in the Studio to talk about Big Data and the ethics surrounding it. You can read about the talk here.

Finally don’t forget that next week we are joined for a very special Lunchtime Talk by Andy Field, who for the last year has been associate artist producer at Arnolfini in Bristol. There are 34 places in the world called Bristol. They are ghost towns and villages, anonymous boroughs and historic cities. Some of them are slipping quietly out of existence. Some of them are so small we don't know anything about them. One of them is allegedly the site of the Garden of Eden. Andy has produced a project that brings together a range of Bristol-based arts organisations to try and respond to each and every one of those places. It will happen over the first weekend of July, involving performances, walks, installations and intimate encounters. You can find out all about the project on Friday 28 June at 1pm in the Studio, so do come down and join us.