Fri 20 Apr 2012 14:00-15:00
Naomi Smyth is a Bristol artist working in performance and documentary. Her current project is called 'How to Survive the Future'. It's an interactive mapped journey following Naomi and her husband Sam- a novice survivalist- south through Europe toward Egypt on their £500 ebay sailboat. On the way…
Wed 18 Apr 2012 13:00-14:00
Christian will give a brief overview of Ars Industrialis, the French association of researchers, practitioners and interested parties dedicated to promoting a properly public critical debate about digital media and contemporary culture politics and society. Christian is involved in several Ars…
Fri 13 Apr 2012 14:00-15:00
Pervasive games play with the virtual and the real, the imaginary and the physical, mixing and hybridising experienced realities. In many ways, such as symbolism and process, they operate in the same manner as pre-industrial rituals. It seems that artists and designers working with urban and…
Fri 6 Apr 2012 14:00-15:00
Due to the Good Friday bank holiday there will be no lunchtime talk today. Our normal programme will resume next week. Happy Easter everyone!
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.
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…
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…
Fri 9 Mar 2012 13:00-14:00
Visiting Studio resident David Martin, from CICtourGUNE, the Centre for Cooperative Research in Tourism suggests that information and services personalisation is essential for an optimal user experience. This customisation becomes even more important in mobile scenarios, where users have to interact…
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…
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…
