Follow Me Slowly

Posted on Thu 23 Feb 2012

Don't panic. Before all else, keep a calm head and demeanor. Staying calm will allow you to continue to think clearly and to keep your energy intact. Panicking will only use up energy and cause you to lose the ability to think straight. Moreover, maintaining a calm demeanor will help to reassure…

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DAY 3 - Understanding what makes a space special*

Posted on Thu 23 Feb 2012

I am going to take alot away from the week sprint. One element for me has been centred around listening. This is both in terms of the the people who I am working with but also the people who have come to talk to us about what they do. For me personally day three had two really interesting speakers.


Three days sprinting!

Posted on Thu 23 Feb 2012

It seems like it's been a very fast 3 days - but so much has happened - in another sense, it seems longer. Our group - which is made up from Yuri Sazuki from Japan, now living in London and Leticia Caceres and Angela Betzien of the Austrialian theatre company Real TV and myself. We have been set the…


DAY 1-2 - So a playable city. What does that mean?

Posted on Tue 21 Feb 2012

DAY ONE Over the course of this week we have been tasked by Pervasive Media Studio and British Council to try and respond to what a playable city could be. How might it feel, how it could look, how could it change. To produce the response we have been split into three groups with myself being put…

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Day 1

Posted on Tue 21 Feb 2012

I had many moments throughout the first day that really set off fireworks in my mind. I am anticipating that this expirience will have a kind of "before and after" effect on my practice, my interest in participation, in audiences and my desire for play. This opporutnity is cristalising a…

Sam Kinsley

Lunchtime Talk: Designing With Fiction

Posted on Thu 16 Feb 2012

Sam Kinsley is a Research Fellow at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, a department of UWE based in the Studio that studies attention and its economies, connected communities, play (video gaming) and pervasive and participatory media. Sam conducted his PhD research on the topic of future…


Indoor and local positioning systems survey

Posted on Thu 16 Feb 2012

Researcher and composer, Dom Schlienger would like to hear your views and experiences of local positioning systems. Dom recently joined us in the Studio to kick off his work with an open meeting exploring the possibilities and tensions in using such systems.


Lunchtime Talk: An introduction to FEED - live multi-touch resampling

Posted on Thu 9 Feb 2012

Last Friday, David Gunn, Director of inter-disciplinary creative organization Incidental visited the Studio to introduce us to FEED, the multi-touch live composition application that the group is currently developing. David told us that Incidental's projects range from hi-tech to lo-tech in…