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Lunchtime Talk: Growing a community of web-native storytellers

Fri 21 Mar 2014 13:00-14:00

What happens when you bring together filmmakers, web developers and designers for a weekend of story hacking? Gilles Pradeau is a filmmaker working on a open-source web documentary about participatory budgeting. Philo van Kemenade has a background in Artificial Intelligence and video production and…

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Lunchtime Talk: iBeacons and Bluetooth Low Energy

Fri 14 Mar 2014 13:00-14:00

The "Walk Past A Starbucks, Get A Coupon Sent To Your Phone" Cliche has been used as an example of mobile location based tech for over 10 years now, Apples iBeacon technology was released last year with iOS7, and as an enabler it allows this to become a reality, however it also offers the potential…

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Lunchtime Talk: Talking Pictures

Fri 7 Mar 2014 13:00-14:00

Daniel Meadows, pioneering ‘documentarist’ and creative director of the award-winning BBC Capture Wales (2001-2006), will screen work from his archive and discuss the notion of a democratic media.In 1973 Meadows embarked on a journey to create a social snapshot of Britain. He bought a…

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Lunchtime Talk: Making music with bridges!

Fri 28 Feb 2014 13:00-14:00

Artist Di Mainstone will join us in the Studio to introduce her extraordinary project, Human Harp.Imagined on the Brooklyn Bridge by artist Di Mainstone and launched in partnership with Queen Mary University of London, Human-Harp is a clip-on instrument that transforms suspensions bridges into giant…

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Lunchtime Talk: Co-creation with Bristol's online trenders

Fri 21 Feb 2014 13:00-14:00

We have invited Hannah Higginson from Watershed to introduce a new project co-creating media content with young influential, 'trenders', the new generation of YouTubers, tweeters and bloggers. She will be joined by participants from Bristol Talent Lab which aims to bring together the best in youth…

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Lunchtime Talk: Book Hive: The Books Are Reading You

Fri 14 Feb 2014 13:00-14:00

On Saturday 7th December 2013 Book Hive was born, a giant living sculpture of books filling the Central Library’s majestic Grade One listed entrance hall. The date marks the 400th anniversary of Bristol merchant Robert Redwood handing over the keys to his Kings Street lodge to become the first…

Mari Thynn
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Lunchtime Talk: Stories from the Makers - Creating immersive performance

Fri 7 Feb 2014 13:00-14:00

Mari Thynne, PhD student and experimental theatre practitioner from HighWire, University of Lancaster will share insights of a recent study of 11 immersive theatre and pervasive media performance practitioners. The aim is to share the experiences of the theatre makers that integrate digital…

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Lunchtime Talk: Loving Games, Gaming Love

Fri 31 Jan 2014 13:00-14:00

From the princess in another castle to internet café deaths in Korea, there are many ways to love games. Whilst the media tends to focus on ‘bad love’; obsession, negative portrayals of sexuality and misogyny within games, love itself is a vastly complicated, individual experience which plays a…

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Bristol Open Data meetup

Thu 30 Jan 2014 19:00-22:00

This Thursday we will be hosting a meetup for Bristol's Open Data network in the Studio and hearing from some fantastic speakers:Leigh Dodds @ldoddsTom Heath @tommyhDarwin Peltan @darwinEd Dowding @eddowdingBook a free place here: http://lanyrd.com/2014/odbriz/

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Lunchtime Talk: Forget the economy, acquire Cryptocurrency

Fri 24 Jan 2014 13:00

Bitcoin is a secure form of currency that exists purely on the internet. To some it’s the world’s most advanced peer to peer cryptographic system. To others it’s a medium of value exchange. Whatever Bitcoin is, it’s undeniable that it is making a splash in fields spanning technology,…