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Lunchtime Talk: Narrative Unbound

Fri 12 Jul 2013 14:00-15:00

If you could walk the path of your hero, would you?Favourite characters, like old friends, follow us wherever we go. Now it’s our turn to follow them. Fabler is a simple concept: the more you walk, the more you hear.When you stop, it stops. We want you to move through stories. Literally.We want…

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Lunchtime Talk: immersion pools

Fri 5 Jul 2013 14:00-15:00

The moment you have a great idea. Hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Your pupils dilate and your cheeks tingle. For over four years Alison John (yello brick) and Julian Sykes (Hoffi) have been looking at how patterns, story and games, can be brought together to create unique experiences. With…

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Lunchtime Talk: 34 Bristols

Fri 28 Jun 2013 14:00-15:00

There are 34 places in the world called Bristol. They are ghost towns and villages, anonymous boroughs and historic cities. Some of them are slipping quietly out of existence. Some of them are so small we don't know anything about them. One of them is allegedly the site of the Garden of Eden. I am…

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Lunchtime Talk: Visualising live data with drawing robots

Fri 21 Jun 2013 14:00-15:00

Because not many of us are interested in graphs or numbers, a Bristol-based engineer has found a new way to bring data to life – with robots. Since last year Matthew Venn’s ‘Polarbots’ have been drawing pictures on walls in response to energy use – the pictures change as the power goes up…

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Lunchtime Talk: Nello Cristianini on Media Content Analysis

Fri 14 Jun 2013 14:00-15:00

Nello Cristianini is a professor of Artificial Intelligence within the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the University of Bristol. Computer scientists at Bristol University have been analysing the content of newspapers and Twitter for years. In this talk Nello will discuss what this analysis can…

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Lunchtime Talk: Interactive Print with Tom Metcalfe

Fri 7 Jun 2013 14:00-15:00

What if we could make paper interactive, connect it to the Internet and update print content? For the last 18 months researchers and industry partners have been working with local communities on a project called Interactive Newsprint.  Here they've explored the emerging technology of paper…

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Bristol Games Hub presents: Kickstarter and Crowd Funding Knowledge Share

Thu 6 Jun 2013 19:00-21:00

Are you thinking of putting together a Kickstarter or other crowd funding campaign? Would you like to hear from people with personal experience and the latest information about running a successful and unsuccessful campaign? Do you have some knowledge of this subject and would be happy to share it…

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Best of British Indie Meetup

Thu 6 Jun 2013 15:00-18:30

Indie games network Best of British founded by Studio resident Will Luton are holding a meetup in the Studio this Thursday June 6th.  This meetup is open to non-Best of British members – so if you are an indie and want to hang out with more indies then come along!Bring your games to show off and…

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Good for Food: Good for Nothing 48 hour social innovation hackathon

Fri 31 May - Sun 2 Jun 2013

Good for Nothing is a community of thinkers, do-ers, makers and tinkerers applying their skills and energy to accelerate the work of cause-led innovators and change makers; it's about diverse groups of people collaborating together, working in new, faster, fun and better ways by supporting ideas and…

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Lunchtime Talk: nth screen with Tim Kindberg and Charlotte Crofts

Fri 31 May 2013 14:00-15:00

What happens when we reimagine film for groups? By turning a group of mobile phones and tablet computers into a set of co-ordinated screens for watching multi-segment films the collaboration will explore how film viewing becomes social and communal, building upon the desire to be together, whether…