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Lunchtime Talk: Tangible Memories

Fri 5 Sep 2014 14:00-15:00

Objects are powerful prompts to memory, and emerging technical capabilities are making it possible for our objects to not just provoke, but to capture and echo back our stories, even when our own memories start to fail us. An interdisiplinary team from Bristol University have been working…

Studio residents and Watershed team picnic
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Lunchtime Talk summer break

Fri 25 Jul - Fri 29 Aug 2014

The lunchtime talk and Open Studio Friday programme will be taking a break over the summer so that we can go and investigate what that big shiny thing in the sky might be. Fear not, we're already busy lining up exciting speakers for September. Check our events page for details.There are lots of…

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Fun Palaces South West Launch

Tue 22 Jul 2014 19:00-21:00

Fun Palaces are popping up all over the country on the weekend of the 4th and 5th October 2014. There’s art, there’s science, and everyone can make one happen."Choose what you want to do...dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with…

Image © Laura Kriefman
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Lunchtime Talk: Kicking the Mic

Fri 18 Jul 2014 14:00

Studio resident, choregrapher and creative technologist Laura Kriefman will be giving us a sneaky peak at some of the extraordinary technologies involved in her new show 'Kicking the Mic' in advance of its debut at the Indonesian International Mask Festival this September.Kicking the Mic is a live…

Transmission image © Chris Nash for Becs Andrews Company
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Lunchtime Talk: Transmission

Fri 11 Jul 2014 14:00-15:00

Inspired by the the spread of infections of disease or ideas through social networks, an award-winning team of artists, scientists, musicians and dancers combine cutting-edge technology and fluid movement to create a sonic and visual world where even the smallest interactions leave behind a…

The Nightvision Experiment
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Lunchtime Talk: Kevin Moss - telling secret social stories

Fri 4 Jul 2014 14:00-15:00

We are very excited to welcome digital storyteller Kevin Moss to the Studio to talk about the art of telling stories across plarforms as a pioneering form of theatre. He will introduce us to his recent project The Nightvision Experiment, an online horror performance played out in real time over…

Great British Make Off
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Lunchtime Talk takeover: The Great British Make Off

Fri 27 Jun 2014 14:00-15:00

This week's lunchtime talk is all about three of our favourite things in the Studio: tea, cake and making.For one hour only we will be opening our toy box of gadgets and gizmos, from arduinos and makey makeys to Verity's prized 3Doodler and inviting you to join us for a bit of super-rapid…

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Lunchtime Talk: AlphaSphere to BetaLoop

Fri 20 Jun 2014 14:00-15:00

Studio residents nu desine will be updating us on their hugely successful electronic musical instrument, the AlphaSphere: AlphaSphere, a revolutionary new musical instrument. Developed and designed for music production. Enabling musicians of all abilities the opportunity to express…

Fun Palaces
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Lunchtime Talk: Fun Palaces

Fri 13 Jun 2014 14:00-15:00

This October 4 -5 Watershed will be transformed in a Fun Palace. What does that mean? Well that's really up to you. A Fun Palace could be a tent, a foyer, a hall, a car park, a square, filled with music, dance, movies, sciences, politics, TV, theatre, art, stories, lectures, play. The important…

Nth Camera workshop participants
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Lunchtime Talk: Nth Camera

Fri 6 Jun 2014 14:00-15:00

Aim your cameraphones and tablets at a wedding, a skateboarding session, a gig, a group of friends in the pub, or the authorities at a demonstration; when someone presses Record they all film together. Now watch the videos you've made as an editable montage, synchronised within a web page. Forget…