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Lunchtime Talk: Loving Games, Gaming Love

Fri 31 Jan 2014 13:00-14:00

From the princess in another castle to internet café deaths in Korea, there are many ways to love games. Whilst the media tends to focus on ‘bad love’; obsession, negative portrayals of sexuality and misogyny within games, love itself is a vastly complicated, individual experience which plays a…

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Bristol Open Data meetup

Thu 30 Jan 2014 19:00-22:00

This Thursday we will be hosting a meetup for Bristol's Open Data network in the Studio and hearing from some fantastic speakers:Leigh Dodds @ldoddsTom Heath @tommyhDarwin Peltan @darwinEd Dowding @eddowdingBook a free place here: http://lanyrd.com/2014/odbriz/

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Lunchtime Talk: Forget the economy, acquire Cryptocurrency

Fri 24 Jan 2014 13:00

Bitcoin is a secure form of currency that exists purely on the internet. To some it’s the world’s most advanced peer to peer cryptographic system. To others it’s a medium of value exchange. Whatever Bitcoin is, it’s undeniable that it is making a splash in fields spanning technology,…

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Lunchtime Talk: 'Recife: The Playable City'

Fri 17 Jan 2014 13:00-14:00

In an exciting change to our usual format, this week’s lunchtime talk will showcase ideas in progress from Watershed’s collaboration with the Brazilian city of Recife.In partnership with the British Council and Porto Digital in Brazil, we are bringing together artists, creative producers and…

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Lunchtime Talk: Kim Plowright

Fri 10 Jan 2014 13:00-14:00

Drawing on her experience of working as a Producer and New Media Consultant for Channel Four, Hide&Seek and Storythings, Kim Plowright will be talking about the life cycle of projects - from development to post-release.She describes her role as a producer as one of developing structures around…

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Lunchtime talk winter break

Fri 20 Dec - Fri 10 Jan 2014

The Lunchtime Talk and Open Studio Friday programme will be taking a break over the Christmas period, but we're already busy lining up exciting speakers for January. Check our events page for further details.There are lots of other ways to stay in touch with the Studio community, find out more here.

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Lunchtime Talk: What Can You Do with a Shadow?

Fri 13 Dec 2013 13:00-14:00

Can you innovate with something as simple as a shadow? For centuries people have told stories with shadows, but they are less used today in our world of digital projectors. For the last 5 years, Tom McDonagh has been casting shadows in new and weird ways to re-imagine how we can tell stories.

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Lunchtime Talk: Door Into the Dark

Fri 6 Dec 2013 13:00-14:00

Join brand new Studio residents Amy Rose and May Abdalla from Anagram as they introduce their company and the big ideas behind their new immersive documentary project Door Into the Dark.

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Lunchtime Talk: Parasitic Products and Designing Deviance

Fri 29 Nov 2013 13:00-14:00

Studio PSK is a collaborative design studio founded by Patrick Stevenson-Keating who joins us for this lunchtime talk. The studio works across multiple platforms, but specialises in object driven speculative design. Preferring to use design as a medium to ask questions, rather than providing…

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Workshop: Data Visualisation with WikiVOIS & Data Unity

Thu 28 Nov 2013 10:00-15:30

A chance to get hands on with brand new data visualisation tools.To celebrate the launch of Data Unity, we're hosting an Open Data workshop with its founder, Kev Kirkland on 28 Nov and you're invited to attend. The event will be held alongside Nominet Trust and WikiVOIS. The workshops will start…