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Lunchtime Talk

Better Sex Through Gaming

Fri 12 Nov 2021 13:00-14:00

In this lunchtime talk Oma Keeling will discuss the current situation of digital sexual policing, and how sexual culture in video games and games production reinforces and resists this, both historically and today.

Graffiti that reads: Art is not a crime. Change the Culture not the Climate.
Lunchtime Talk

Revisiting: A Creative Just Transition?

Fri 5 Nov 2021 13:00-14:00

The COP26 Global climate talks in November will shape how governments respond to the climate crisis. We’ll be re-visiting Zoe Rasbash’s reflections on the need for a creative approach to tackling climate change.

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Lunchtime Talk

Live Illustration Expanded

Fri 29 Oct 2021 13:00-14:00

In this lunchtime talk, Studio Resident Camille Aubry will introduce the R&D project Live Illustration Expanded and explore how live illustration can transform physical and virtual environments and be a performance in itself.

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Lunchtime Talk

Caring to Listen

Fri 22 Oct 2021 13:00-14:00

In this lunchtime talk Caitlin Shepherd will share research and findings arising from her practice and research PhD, Caring to Listen, which examines how working-class experience is excluded from socially engaged art.

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Event

MiMu Gloves + Martial Arts = ?

Thu 21 Oct 2021 13:00-15:00

Join us in the Studio to see Remote_CTRL Resident Amble Skuse demonstrate how to use the innovative MiMu Gloves - a wearable motion-based musical instrument, which allows multiple manipulations of sound, light, video and more

Bristol street art which reads 'Hands, Face"
Lunchtime Talk

The Art and Performance of Pandemic Response

Fri 15 Oct 2021 13:00-14:00

In this lunchtime talk, Dr Stuart Andrews and Dr Patrick Duggan will be reflecting on their ongoing project which looks into the ways in which the arts are vital to city responses to a pandemic.

Katy Connor, HydroPoetics (2021) Work in progress (cucumber seedlings, 5litre hydroponic grow station, LED lighting, nutrient media)
Lunchtime Talk

HydroPoetics - Reimagining hydroponic systems

Fri 1 Oct 2021 13:00-14:00

As part of her Spring residency at Watershed, Katy has been exploring hydroponics - the art and science of growing plants in a liquid, water media.

a horizontal hand wearing a MIMU black glove, with a black background.
Lunchtime Talk

Remote_CTRL Residency

Fri 24 Sep 2021 13:00-14:00

MiMU Gloves are a wearable motion-based musical instrument / controller. In this lunchtime talk, we'll be hearing from artists, about their experience of working with MiMU gloves and how their projects are developing.

this image shows city block buildings, with an abstract drawing underneath showing a hidden world under the soil
Lunchtime Talk

UnEarthing Imagination

Fri 17 Sep 2021 13:00-14:00

In this Lunchtime talk, Lukus Robbins, Pervasive Media Studio spring residency artist and resident, explores our connection with soil and his findings.