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Lunchtime Talk: "Now the Field is Open" - new currents in documentary

Fri 20 Jul 2012 14:00-15:00

Mandy Rose is a Senior Research Fellow at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England and Pervasive Media Studio resident. Mandy has been involved with participatory media for nearly two decades. She was co-founder and producer of BBC 2’s Video Nation project, and as…

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Lunchtime Talk: A Balancing Act - Artists Working in the Commercial Sector

Fri 13 Jul 2012 14:00-15:00

Flat-e is the studio of artist/ filmmakers Matt Batemen, Robin McNicolas and Rob Slater.   With over ten years of experience, Flat-e is a concept driven studio, working with an open approach to media, aesthetic and technology. Previous projects range from large-scale architectural projection…

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Lunchtime Talk: Hidden Fields

Fri 6 Jul 2012 14:00-15:00

Visualizing Human Energy FlowIt might sound hippy. But it’s true. And it’s trippy: there’s a vantage point in fundamental science where humans are simply fancy energy fields. No more, and no less. It’s as comforting as it is disturbing.

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Lunchtime Talk: Magic Tate Ball

Fri 29 Jun 2012 14:00-15:00

A tale of David vs Goliath: Bristol indy developers collaborate with Tate to conquer Mattel, Apple and the world.Back in 2008, Thought Den and Mobile Pie became founding residents of the Pervasive Media Studio. Since then the two companies have regularly collaborated and their latest piece of…

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Lunchtime Talk: Programming the arts

Fri 22 Jun 2012 14:00-15:00

A deliberate play on words, the title refers to both programming computers, and programming spaces - coding and curating. As Creative Technologists in residence at Spike Island as part of the Happenstance residency project, Linda Sandvik and Kevin Walker have been exploring this relation by creating…

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Lunchtime talk: Accelerometer madness

Fri 8 Jun 2012 14:00-15:00

There is more tech in your pocket than in the spacecraft that sent Neil and Buzz to the moon, right? We've all heard the trivia, but 5 years on from the launch of the first iPhone many of the affordances of our new smart phones are still woefully underused.Lee and Dan from TangibleFX, makers of the…

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Lunchtime Talk: Into Africa

Fri 1 Jun 2012 14:00-15:00

A meditation on superstructure.In this talk Tim Kindberg will report on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa: a 2.5 week trip to Accra and Nairobi in March & early April. Tim worked for the British Council for a few days in Nairobi, acting as a mentor on their Culture Shift programme at the…

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The New Collective Presents: Frankly Emerging

Thu 24 May 2012 19:00-21:00

Launching this May, Frankly Emerging is the first in a series of informal evening sessions, in which emerging artists talk frankly about the ups and downs of self motivated projects. We will hear from three invited speakers, including: Bean, Performance Artist and Director of ]Performance Space[ in…