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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fri 10 Feb 2012 13:00-14:00
'Design fiction' describes ways of using storytelling techniques, especially in the form of video, to make speculative design ideas feel real. Sam Kinsley offers some insight into uses of design fiction drawing on his extensive research into the relationship between technology development, time…
Fri 3 Feb 2012 13:00-14:00
FEED is a multi-touch music app being developed by inter-disciplinary organisation Incidental. The app enables complex, rich manipulation of a “live feed” of sound, drawn from the inbuilt microphone of an ipad or an audio file loaded into the app, enabling users to create complex real-time…
Fri 27 Jan 2012 13:00-14:00
Last year, Mike Bennett took up the role of Bristol's Place Making Director. "Why?", many asked, did this serial entrepreneur who has spent his entire professional life starting and running businesses (e3, Goldbrick House & Bristol Media) want to take up this hugely controversial…
