This session is aimed at anybody interested in our Graduate/New Talent scheme, which supports recent graduates and people starting out in the world of pervasive media.

This session will provide you with everything you need for your application. You will be shown around the Studio, find out about aim and purpose of the scheme, speak to past New Talent residents and discuss your questions with Studio Director Clare Reddington.

We will also introduce Ash Bulayev, Ed Rogers and Lucinda Orrell, who are currently completing a residency within the New Talent scheme.

Ash is an independent director/choreographer and media artist, and co-Artistic Director of amorphy.org. Ash has created multiple original productions ranging from site-specific/multi-location work, interactive installations to dance/theatre projects, which were presented internationally, including the USA, Spain and Egypt. In 2006/7, Ash was project initiator and research director for the EU Culture 2000 funded project i-MAP (Integration of Media and Performance).

His project HOME/CITY explores the definition of home and presents questions, problems and dreams through an interactive and mediated journey – embracing what pervasive media tools can offer. Does home protect, or is home to be protected? Home is what you make, or what makes you?

Ed graduated as an animator from the Bristol School of Creative Arts in 2009. His project aims at making Braille available on smart phones, laptops and desktop computers. At the moment products that attach Braille cell displays to computers are both, limited compared with the current generation of mobile devices and expensive. Ed has been through two previous prototypes and is aiming to design a usable, reasonably priced product during his residency.

Lucinda is an Interdisciplinary Design graduate from the University of the West of England. Outside space has become of great influence in her work. She strives to ask questions about our true desires and needs within these spaces, sparking off conversations about future aspirations of public space. E-motions is a hypothetical mobile phone application that uses the GPS within a mobile phone and sensors built into the mobile phone cover that respond to our physiological symptoms of emotions.

This Lunchtime Talk is part of Open Studio Friday which takes place at the Studio every week.

Lunchtime Talks are informal presentations by Studio residents
and associates. They normally take place at 1pm and are free and open to everybody who’s interested in what we do.

After the Talk, we also invite you to stay with us for the afternoon to continue the conversation or work on your own projects. We
provide chairs, tables, wireless and a great space. You bring what you need to work with (laptop/mobile). Our open afternoons close at 5pm, usually with a trip to the bar.

Let us know if you haven’t been to the Studio before and we'll be happy to show you around! Send an email to Shirin@pmstudio.co.uk and we will meet you at 12.30pm for a quick tour.