Events (Archive) | Pervasive Media Studio

Pyka Workshop at Watershed, Person Playing with Pyka's Alternative Instruments

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First Friday October

Fri 4 Oct 2024 17:00-19:00

First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone. This month's theme is 'play' and 'playfulness'

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Lunchtime Talk: Rewilding Audience Experience

Fri 4 Oct 2024 13:00-14:00

In this talk, Dr Rosie Poebright shares their experiences creating Wild Stories, or screenless interactive story experiences.

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Make Shift Meet up - Oct 2024

Tue 1 Oct 2024 18:00-20:00

Make Shift meet ups are made for early careers creatives interested in creative technologies and screen based media. Come along to grow your community and nurture your interests and skills.

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Lunchtime Talk: Queering AI - Voice, Profiling and Resistance

Fri 27 Sep 2024 13:00-14:00

In this talk, Amina Abbas-Nazari will present their PhD research investigating artificially intelligent machine listening and conversational systems that profile voices to surveil, analyse and understand people.

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Lunchtime Talk: Artificial Life: Bridging Science and Art for Future AI Autonomy

Fri 20 Sep 2024 13:00-14:00

In this lunchtime talk, ALife researchers Itsuki Doi (Senior Researcher at Alternative Machine, Inc.) and Takahide Yoshida (PhD student) will present their latest scientific research and art projects utilizing Alife.

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Lunchtime Talk: The Singing Kitchen

Fri 13 Sep 2024 13:00-14:00

Dave Evans is an artist based in Liverpool. In this talk, he will share a bit about his work considering live audio streaming assemblage as a speculative vocal system ‘giving voice’ to domestic space.

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Lunchtime Talk: Season of the Orb - Predictive AI & Divinatory Rituals

Fri 6 Sep 2024 13:00-14:00

Howard Melnyczuk is an artist, writer, and researcher investigating sociopolitical structures and their relationship to technology. This talk presents prediction as a narrative process that strengthens political belief.

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Make Shift Meet Up - September 2024

Tue 3 Sep 2024 18:00-20:00

Make Shift meet ups are made for early careers creatives interested in creative technologies and screen based media. Come along to grow your community and nurture your interests and skills.

Family Workshops at Pervasive Media Studio Watershed, child playing and making a toy

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Animazing Toys Family Sessions

Sun 1 Sep 2024 10:30-12:15

Join us at this family tester and co-creation session run by Animazing Toys, a Bristol-based entertainment company.

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Expression Orchestra Workshop

Sun 11 Aug 2024 14:00-16:00

Come and make some noise with the Expression Orchestra, a set of exciting alternative musical instruments developed by Pyka.

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