Transference. Image by Sayid Shamil Ahmed
Event

Transference

Thu 2 Jun 2016 20:00-22:00

Have you ever wanted to wear a robot? Or wondered how the lyrics in songs get you dancing? Perhaps you've found yourself moving in sync with everyone around you?We're looking for curious and playful participants to come and take part in a one off and groundbreaking live research event that might…

lunchtime talk audience
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Lunchtime talk: short pause

Fri 27 May 2016 14:00-15:00

We will be taking a short break from our regular lunchtime talk programme this week as (to be perfectly honest) it is a bank holiday weekend and some of us will be away and the rest of us are super-keen to go to a Festival of Ideas event down the hall in Watershed Cinema 3 that looks really…

Dorkbot presents: Guitar Controlled Old-School Synthesizers
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Dorkbot Bristol presents: Guitar Controlled Old-School Synthesizers

Tue 17 May 2016 20:30-22:30

May's Dorkbot talk is from Costas Calamvokis, who says:"I'll be talking about a project I'm working on to control old-school (analog) synths using guitars. This can produce sounds never before heard and ways of interacting with guitar never before experienced. Whether this is a good thing or…

Digital Cities - Digital Bristol Week 2016
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Digital Bristol Week

Mon 9 - Sun 15 May 2016

There has never been a better time to be a digital creative in BristolWatershed and the Pervasive Media Studio are once again partnering with BBC Academy, Creative Skillset and many other partners at venues across the city for Digital Bristol Week as part of the Digital Cities…

Immersion Dance
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Lunchtime Talk: Immersion Dance

Fri 13 May 2016 14:00-15:00

Jack Norris from Zubr Virtual Reality and choreographer Julia Thorneycroft join us this week to share ‘Immersion Dance’ an experimental project placing dance and dancers in virtual reality in augmented reality.

Mayfly
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Lunchtime Talk: Creating Mayfly - the sounds of life on the pages of a book

Fri 6 May 2016 14:00-15:00

Mayfly allows you to record sounds and attach them to the pages of our Journals and Stickers; bringing the physical and digital together. It emerged from the chance discovery of a battered Moroccan guidebook stuffed with tickets. Leafing through those pages, we longed to hear the sounds of that…

Canute by Bristol Braille Technology
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Lunchtime Talk: The Braillists and Canute

Fri 22 Apr 2016 14:00-15:00

Too often the blind community find themselves as passive recipients of assistive technology which they get little choice over; either because it is so expensive that it is only available by a prescriptive hand-out scheme, or because the device was designed with minimal input from the end-users.This…

Photo of Tarim
Lunchtime Talk

Bridging the Gap between Artists and Technologists

Fri 15 Apr 2016 14:00-15:00

Technologist, interaction designer and Studio resident Tarim will tell some stories about what went right and what didn't go quite so right in the development of some of the installations he's worked on with various artists.