This month we'll see work from the following Studio Residents:

  • Nikesh Shukla, author, and Camille Aubry, illustrator - launch their new comic book, Mad Villain. Issue 1 explores masculinity and midlife crisis through the story of a middle-aged father of two who, confronted by rising hatred on the streets of Bristol, decides to join antifa and ends up punching Nazis along the way.
  • Reuben Armstrong, Video Design Director - works across documentary and animation, focusing on stories of visual impairment and accessibility. He will share two recent short films: An Exercise in Perspective, created for the London Marathon in partnership with Royal National Institute of Blind People, and Access Bristol, an assistive technology accelerator launched by the University of Bristol.
  • Rachel Smith, artist, creative technologist, and software engineer - based in Bristol, she is known for performative installations featuring playful, often silly machines. Currently an artist in residence at the Centre for Sociodigital Futures at the University of Bristol, she will present work in progress from her experiments with emotion-sensing technology.

About Pervasive Media Studio

The Pervasive Media Studio hosts an international community of over 100 artists, companies, technologists, and academics exploring experience design and creative technology. We are a space for risk taking and early ideas; for the kind of projects and questions that inhabit the meeting points of art, technology, and society.

Our projects span play, robotics, location-based media, food, connected objects, interactive documentary, new forms of performance and more.

We have an open plan studio with a culture if generosity, curiosity, and interruptibility. We believe that by clustering people together from a broad range of backgrounds, with differing skills, experience, and opinions, all of our ideas become better.

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This event is supported by MyWorld.