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…
Fri 18 Feb 2011 13:00-14:00
Émilie Grenier is a Canadian artist working with wearable open source technologies. Exploring concepts of broken narrative and storytelling, her work seeks to provoke users and challenge their assumptions about their surrounding environment.In her Lunchtime Talk, Emilie will explore soft circuitry…
