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Lunchtime Talk: Hack The Quartet Showcase
Fri 2 Aug 2013 14:00-15:00
LOCATION: Bristol Old Vic StudioFor one week only the lunchtime talk is going on tour to #bristolproms to see the results of our chamber music hack
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Lunchtime Talk: Speak with your eyes
Fri 26 Jul 2013 14:00-15:00
For people with physical disabilities, getting access to a computer can open up a world of opportunity. Advances in eye gaze technology are allowing people to talk, helping very young children to interact with the world, and enabling adults to control their home environment.
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Lunchtime talk: #BristolProms - augmenting the orchestra
Fri 19 Jul 2013 14:00-15:00
Digital technologies are increasingly used to distribute to and engage people with classical music: Touch Press' massively popular Orchestra app is an exploration of orchestral music with oodles of interactivity, and Glyndebourne has been streaming live opera to worldwide audiences, for free, for…
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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
In this talk Nello Cristianini will discuss what this analysis can tell us, about what stories people read and why and how the media can be used both as an indicator and director of public awareness and human emotion.
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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…