Congo Calling
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Lunchtime Talk: Conflict Free Mobile Phones

Fri 13 Mar 2015 13:00-14:00

We are delighted to welcome Miriam Gosling from Congo Calling to talk about the human rights implications of generating the raw materials used in our mobile phones, tablets and games consoles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Becky Sage playing with the Nano Simbox
Lunchtime Talk

Nano Simbox

Fri 6 Mar 2015 13:00-14:00

Studio resident Becky Sage will join us to introduce Nano Simbox by Interactive Scientific.

Image of Katherine Jewkes
Lunchtime Talk

Using Digital Technology in Live Performance

Fri 27 Feb 2015 13:00-14:00

Come along to find out about some of this work, including creating online reimaginings of the Strangest town in Wales, R&D into playable data collection, and the pros and cons of livestreaming from trains and mountainsides.

Photo by Gayle Laird: Fujiko Nakaya - Fog Bridge
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Lunchtime Talk: Fujiko Nakaya - Fog Bridge

Fri 13 Feb 2015 13:00-14:00

The world is getting warmer – but how will this change our weather? And how might a changing climate disrupt our lives? To celebrate Bristol’s status as European Green Capital, In Between Time has invited a conjurer of unusual weather, artist Fujiko Nakaya to the city, inviting her to transform…

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Lunchtime Talk: Connected Objects - Beyond the glass exhibit

Fri 6 Feb 2015 13:00

Connected Objects is a project looking at how we can bring personalisation and Role Playing gaming techniques to the museum experience. We will be joined by the team behind it who have been investigating how best to scan ancient objects, in order to reproduce them through 3D printing. They have been…

Digital Bristol Week 2015
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Digital Bristol Week - City Open Day

Wed 4 Feb 2015 13:30-17:30

Digital Bristol Week is a week-long programme of events, workshops and panels for the creative industries that is being hosted and produced by the BBC Bristol Partnership. The Pervasive Media Studio are taking part in 'Open Doors' on Weds 4th Feb as one of many creative businesses across Bristol…

Nikesh Shukla and Chris Killen
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Lunchtime talk: How to Write About Social Media

Fri 23 Jan 2015 13:00-14:00

Novelists Nikesh Shukla and Chris Killen have both written novels about the emotional impact of social media on our lives. As lines in the sand for how we live now and whether bare our souls online in 140-character confessionals. There will be arguments, there will be references to Jane Austen,…

Fragmented Orchestra
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Lunchtime Talk: Ghosts, noise and model brains

Fri 16 Jan 2015 13:00-14:00

Jane Grant and John Matthias will be joining us to talk about several of their collaborative artworks such as The Fragmented Orchestra that draw on ideas from neuroscience in which the public interact with a simulated ‘neural network’ to create sounds.