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Bank holiday: no lunchtime talk
Fri 6 Apr 2012 14:00-15:00
Due to the Good Friday bank holiday there will be no lunchtime talk today. Our normal programme will resume next week. Happy Easter everyone!
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Lunchtime Talk: Beyond Dance Dance Revolution
Fri 30 Mar 2012 14:00-15:00
Fresh from a hosting a panel at SXSW, Laura Kriefman from the Guerilla Dance Project will be joining us in the Studio to explore what happens at the intersection of dance and games.
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Lunchtime Talk: The Most Dangerous Game: Exposing Sixth Formers to Power Tools
Fri 23 Mar 2012 13:00-14:00
Take yourself back to the time when you were a sixth former; think about all the times when university students came into your school, put power tools in your hands and invited you to build robots. Sound familiar? No? Sam Phippen helps to run a robotics competition for Sixth Formers that takes place…
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Lunchtime Talk: The Quantum Workshop: why isn't the world more weird?
Fri 16 Mar 2012 13:00-14:00
The microscopic world of atoms is a strange place. Things can be in several places at once, teleportation is a reality, and objects far apart can communicate instantaneously. This weird behaviour is called quantum mechanics. The question is, why isn't the world more weird? The Quantum Workshop aims…
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Lunchtime Talk: Context Cloud: a Web Platform for the Collaborative Development of Context-Aware Systems
Fri 9 Mar 2012 13:00-14:00
Visiting Studio resident David Martin, from CICtourGUNE, the Centre for Cooperative Research in Tourism suggests that information and services personalisation is essential for an optimal user experience. This customisation becomes even more important in mobile scenarios, where users have to interact…
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Lunchtime Talk: A Social TV platform
Fri 2 Mar 2012 13:00-14:00
Andy Littledale and Lee Carrotte from SecondSync Limited will introduce their second screen platform. The platform allows developers to create synchronised companion apps for TV. It also measures social media engagement, providing insights into the emerging phenomenon of social TV.The talk will…
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Lunchtime Talk: The Playable City Sprint
Fri 24 Feb 2012 13:00-14:00
This February, the British Council and iShed will bring together artists, producers and technologists from across East Asia and the UK, to develop playful ideas at the intersection art, technology, society and culture. This talk will introduce the practitioners, their experience of collaboratively…
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Talk: United Visual Artists
Tue 21 Feb 2012 18:10-19:30
We are delighted to present a talk with world-renowned, multi-artform digital practitioners United Visual Artists. United Visual Artists are an art and design practice creating work at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, live performance, moving image and digital installation. Pushing the…
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Lunchtime Talk: Introduction to Plonk — a framework for audio software development
Fri 17 Feb 2012 13:00-14:00
Plonk is a new C++ framework for audio software development by Martin Robinson in the Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Plonk was designed to support teaching and research activities at the university but is being made…
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Live broadcast: An evening with Robert Wilson
Mon 13 Feb 2012 18:00-19:30
“1 HAVE YOU BEEN HERE BEFORE”“2 NO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME”An evening with Robert Wilson. A Live broadcast to the Pervasive Media Studio from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.In this exceptional performance, director and artist Robert Wilson invites you into his astonishing…