Bordeaux Digital Week

Posted on Tue 20 Mar 2012

This week the Pervasive Media Studio is heading to Bristol's twin city, Bordeaux, to take part in the Semaine Digitale de Bordeaux. Now in it's second year, Bordeaux Digital Week is France's foremost creative technology event, exploring the very latest in digital experiences.


i-Doc Symposium 22nd-23rd March

Posted on Fri 16 Mar 2012

i-Docs  2012 is the only UK event dedicated to Interactive Documentary and it’s happening here at the Watershed on the 22-23 March. Produced by Pervasive Media Studio residents, the Digital Cultures Research Centre, it will introduce a collection of people from diverse backgrounds and practices…


Andy Littledale and Lee Carrotte Lunchtime Talk: A Social TV platform

Posted on Mon 12 Mar 2012

Andy Littledale and Lee Carrotte Lunchtime Talk: A Social TV platformSecond Screening and social television: the combination of social interaction and social media with the age-old activity of watching TV.What Andy Littledale and Lee Carrotte from SecondSync Limited offer is a social TV platform…


Lunchtime Talk: Introduction to Plonk with Martin Robinson

Posted on Thu 8 Mar 2012

The Friday Lunchtime Talk on 17th Feb was led by Martin Robinson of the Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies at the University of the West of England came in to the Studio to give us an introduction to Plonk: the new C++ framework for audio software development that he has been…


Heartlands

Posted on Fri 2 Mar 2012

Here is a link to the video we made as part of our group project..http://vimeo.com/37769570  we staged the encounter with the Heart Cartographer, which is part of the idea for a locative game / theate piece to map the heartlands of Bristol... created with Leticia Cáceres, Angela Betzien, and Yuri…


Pervasive Media Cookbook

Posted on Wed 29 Feb 2012

The Digital Cultures Research Centre have launched the Pervasive Media Cookbook website. The Cookbook promotes the emerging field of Pervasive Media by laying out the production processes for 12 innovative experiments. It’s a Hackspace meets Jamie Oliver mash up - a mix of art and engineering,…


final day - presentation day

Posted on Fri 24 Feb 2012

So today's the day and we have frantically been pulling things together. I think one of the main things that I will take away from the project is that. THERE IS ALWAYS TIME. With this in mind I went down to test some last minute gps tracking systems that we will be using for the project we got…


DAY 4 - Developing the project

Posted on Fri 24 Feb 2012

So its thursday a day to go until the end of the project. We are getting closer to the final presentation but for the group due to postage and general complexity of the project it's the first day we have been able to get our hands on things to try out. In some ways the project is very theoretical…


The Playable City Sprint

Posted on Fri 24 Feb 2012

This week the British Council and Watershed have brought together twelve leading artists and designers from across East Asia and the UK, for a five-day sprint at Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio around the theme of The Playable City.