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Lunchtime Talk: Beyond Dance Dance Revolution

Fri 30 Mar 2012 14:00-15:00

Fresh from a hosting a panel at SXSW, Laura Kriefman from the Guerilla Dance Project will be joining us in the Studio to explore what happens at the intersection of dance and games.

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Lunchtime Talk: The Most Dangerous Game: Exposing Sixth Formers to Power Tools

Fri 23 Mar 2012 13:00-14:00

Take yourself back to the time when you were a sixth former; think about all the times when university students came into your school, put power tools in your hands and invited you to build robots. Sound familiar? No? Sam Phippen helps to run a robotics competition for Sixth Formers that takes place…

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Lunchtime Talk: The Quantum Workshop: why isn't the world more weird?

Fri 16 Mar 2012 13:00-14:00

The microscopic world of atoms is a strange place. Things can be in several places at once, teleportation is a reality, and objects far apart can communicate instantaneously. This weird behaviour is called quantum mechanics. The question is, why isn't the world more weird? The Quantum Workshop aims…

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Lunchtime Talk: A Social TV platform

Fri 2 Mar 2012 13:00-14:00

Andy Littledale and Lee Carrotte from SecondSync Limited will introduce their second screen platform. The platform allows developers to create synchronised companion apps for TV. It also measures social media engagement, providing insights into the emerging phenomenon of social TV.The talk will…

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Lunchtime Talk: The Playable City Sprint

Fri 24 Feb 2012 13:00-14:00

This February, the British Council and iShed will bring together artists, producers and technologists from across East Asia and the UK, to develop playful ideas at the intersection art, technology, society and culture. This talk will introduce the practitioners, their experience of collaboratively…

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Talk: United Visual Artists

Tue 21 Feb 2012 18:10-19:30

We are delighted to present a talk with world-renowned, multi-artform digital practitioners United Visual Artists. United Visual Artists are an art and design practice creating work at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, live performance, moving image and digital installation. Pushing the…

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Live broadcast: An evening with Robert Wilson

Mon 13 Feb 2012 18:00-19:30

“1 HAVE YOU BEEN HERE BEFORE”“2 NO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME”An evening with Robert Wilson. A Live broadcast to the Pervasive Media Studio from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.In this exceptional performance, director and artist Robert Wilson invites you into his astonishing…

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Lunchtime talk: Designing with fiction

Fri 10 Feb 2012 13:00-14:00

'Design fiction' describes ways of using storytelling techniques, especially in the form of video, to make speculative design ideas feel real. Sam Kinsley offers some insight into uses of design fiction drawing on his extensive research into the relationship between technology development, time…