Fri 15 Apr 2011 14:00-15:00
International visual label AntiVJ are continuously extending their global reputation with ground-breaking works in the areas of projection, sonic and visual performance and stereoscopy/3D. After many months of globe-hopping, we are able to catch up with our residents and invite you to join us.
Fri 8 Apr 2011 14:00-15:00
Slingshot are a Bristol-based company designing and producing street and pervasive games. The company has developed a global reputation for engaging people using social and playful experiences. Adding new twists to popular digital technologies. Examples include cuddly, but deluded social robot; The…
Fri 1 Apr 2011 14:00-15:00
Elaine Massung has recently completed a PhD at the University of Bristol, investigating visitor reception to location-based interpretation at archaeological and heritage sites. The multidisciplinary study brought together heritage management and location-based technology to evaluate audience…
Thu 31 Mar 2011 16:00-18:00
We invite you to a discussion event at The Pervasive Media Studio to introduce our 2011 artists in residence, and to spark a conversation around their new work.Throughout April and May, two groups of artists are spending supported time at the studio, to develop new sonic/dance and theatre based…
Fri 25 Mar 2011 13:00-14:00
Charlotte Crofts is a Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC) member and UWE senior lecturer in film studies and video production. She is working with the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon to explore how location-based media can be used to enhance their new exhibition The Curzon Collection and the…
Fri 18 Mar 2011 13:00-14:00
Can computers be contemplative? They interrupt and distract us, throw up swarms of real-time data that obscure our perspective and encourage us to spread our attention across a range of activities.
Fri 11 Mar 2011 13:00-14:00
During 5 millions of years of human evolution, the world spoke to us in countless diverse voices rich with meaning. Our ever-open auditory channel was vital to survival and on stand-by for fight or flight. Now most of us live within a global mega-machine that hums in meaningless flat-line drones.
Fri 25 Feb 2011 13:00-14:00
Dr Tom Mitchell, senior lecturer and researcher for Music Systems Engineering at UWE, is currently engaged in a collaborative research project with award-winning composer, performer and recording artist Imogen Heap. The project aims to enhance composition and performance of music through hand…
Wed 23 Feb 2011 14:00-16:00
‘We Are Forests’ is a new sonic artwork by Duncan Speakman and Émilie Grenier that will use mobile technologies to connect strangers in a fascinating experience. For this talk, Speakman and Grenier will discuss the work at the end of its first stage of development. Throughout February, the…
Fri 18 Feb 2011 14:00-16:00
From a digital route planner that avoids hills and rough surfaces, to a sculpture made entirely of scent and games that give players' superpowers as their heart rate start pumping, this year's Media Sandbox projects give a new meaning to the phrase 'pushing the boundaries.' Join us to celebrate the…
