Lunchtime talk: Accelerometer madness

Posted on Fri 15 Jun 2012

Dan Newton and Lee Arromba are studio residents and collaborators of Tangible FX who create interesting and useful controls for musically inspired people. Their current iPhone app the iMoov is a Midi controller that allows free axis of movement that the user can control using any sort of parameters…


Weekly Blog - Week commencing 4 June

Posted on Wed 13 Jun 2012

Week Commencing 4 JuneWowzers, it’s the shortest week of the year but the busiest at The Pervasive Media Studio, we have been celebrating Watershed’s 30th Birthday and the whole building has been buzzing with celebrative activity. The studio threw open it’s doors for an open studio and we were…


Watershed 30th Birthday - Open Studio

Posted on Wed 6 Jun 2012

Jun 7 2012, 12 - 5pmWe are throwing open the doors to the Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed’s creative technology research space. We bring together a vibrant community of artists, technologists and academics to collaborate on research into the future of mobile and wireless media. We would like to…


Weekly Blog - Week Commencing 28 May

Posted on Fri 1 Jun 2012

Week Commencing 28 MayYippee, summer in finally here and it feels well over a few weeks since we were faced with endless rain clouds! I’m back at my desk at the Studio as my avid readers will be delighted to hear and life in the studio is fully sun charged, as this week’s activity reveals.Party…


Weekly blog - Week commencing 21 May

Posted on Mon 28 May 2012

It’s been a swelteringly hot week here at the Studio, not that we would ever complain about that. With ice cream within walking distance and the Watershed’s summer specials we’ve been keeping our cool. Although the blue air-conditioning socks that adorn the Studio’s ceiling might have helped…


Lunchtime Talk: Digital Hat

Posted on Thu 24 May 2012

On Friday 18 May, Seth Honnor and Hannah Nicklin presented a lunchtime talk on their preliminary research into a uniquely flexible box office system: Digital Hat.Hannah Nicklin is an artist and an academic, specialising in pervasive performance and what she has coined as first-person theatre.Seth…


Weekly Blog - Week commencing 14 May

Posted on Fri 18 May 2012

This week has brought some exciting people and happenings to the Studio. As Mayfest roars merrily around the city, Becky is away working with the Mayk team and I'm happy to be filling her shoes on the front desk.We've also been part of the Mayfest joy as Magna Mysteria is in development here,…


Lunchtime Talk: UltraHaptics

Posted on Thu 17 May 2012

On Friday Sriram Subramanian gave a Lunchtime Talk on UltraHaptics. Sriram is part of the interaction and graphics group at the University of Bristol. The primary interest for the group's lab research is the collaboration between social scientists, artists, scientists and engineers. The key thing…


Launch: On a Theme of Hermes

Posted on Wed 16 May 2012

SATSYMPH ‘On a Theme of Hermes’: Geo-located soundscapes for dramatised heritage interpretation, contemporary music and contemporary poetry.