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…
Fri 17 Feb 2012 13:00-14:00
Plonk is a new C++ framework for audio software development by Martin Robinson in the Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Plonk was designed to support teaching and research activities at the university but is being made…
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…
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…
Fri 3 Feb 2012 13:00-14:00
FEED is a multi-touch music app being developed by inter-disciplinary organisation Incidental. The app enables complex, rich manipulation of a “live feed” of sound, drawn from the inbuilt microphone of an ipad or an audio file loaded into the app, enabling users to create complex real-time…
Fri 27 Jan 2012 13:00-14:00
Last year, Mike Bennett took up the role of Bristol's Place Making Director. "Why?", many asked, did this serial entrepreneur who has spent his entire professional life starting and running businesses (e3, Goldbrick House & Bristol Media) want to take up this hugely controversial…
Wed 25 Jan 2012 19:30-21:00
There's no either/or anymore - digital is part of our creative lives, creating new possibilities and opportunities. But does that mean pre-digital knowledge, expertise and aesthetics are redundant, or is something much more interesting happening as old and new come together in the mix?This free…
Wed 25 Jan 2012 18:00-19:00
Join us for an in conversation discussion between artist Jen Southern and Laura Sillars, Director of Site Gallery. This talk will introduce Southern's new work Polyrhythmia, a participatory audio installation developed through Sound and Music's Embedded Residency at Pervasive Media Studio. Join us…
Fri 20 Jan 2012 13:00-14:00
Smart mobs. Flash mobs. Subtle Mobs. Crowdsourcing. Participants in the Arab Spring. These and crowds of other types have become the subject of much interest in recent years. While a visiting professor at ITU Copenhagen for six weeks in October & November, Tim Kindberg started a project on…
Tue 17 Jan 2012 14:00-15:00
Researcher and composer, Dom Schlienger will be visiting the Studio on Tuesday to host an open meeting discussing local positioning systems. Join us for a coffee and a chat to share your experiences of the challenges and opportunities afforded by working with locative media.
