Posted on Mon 16 Mar 2009
Studio Residents Simon Johnson and Simon Evans of Simon Games last week launched The Hat Game as part of The Umbrella Group's activities at the SXSW festival in Austin Texas. Funded by iShed and Arts Council England, the pair have inspired a wild chase through the streets of Austin in search of a…
Posted on Fri 13 Mar 2009
The Show Me The Money sessions at the studio have been encouraging us all to think about how we describe what we do. Sharon from the Watershed has also come in and talked with us about the language we use, the people we want to target as users, the companies we might partner with. So as the product…
Posted on Fri 13 Mar 2009
Last night the Pervasive Media Studio took home the Media Innovation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Innovation. The awards, which once again celebrated the innovative use of screen-based media, were presented at a glittering gala at the Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol. Amongst the lucky…
Posted on Wed 11 Mar 2009
A group of residents from the Pervasive Media Studio are heading over to Austin, Texas this week to attend this year’s SXSW Int
Posted on Wed 11 Mar 2009
I've just seen the funniest thing!In Broadmead shopping for shoes (in an impossibly upmarket shop you understand) I spotted a mother with her baby, parked nearby in a pushchair. The mother was, shall we say, from South of the river...but none the less she had a shiny new iPhone. The baby was 2 years…
Posted on Tue 10 Mar 2009
In the third of the Studio’s Show Me the Money sessions organised by Thought Den and Jon Dovey
Posted on Mon 9 Mar 2009
I just got back from Birds Eye View, where I gave a short intro to mscaping for beginners. Amazingly it wasn't just attended by people who had tried out e:merge (Jackie Calderwood's filmic piece running for the duration of the festival) or who had gone to Clare Reddington's talk about pervasive…
Posted on Fri 6 Mar 2009
Studio Resident Dane Watkins’ Bayeux Tapestry Animations were commissioned by the Forestry Comm
Posted on Thu 5 Mar 2009
I've just come back from a trip across the pond - San Francisco is already well known as a creative metropolis home to big players such as Linden Labs and HP, while it's only an American stone's throw from scillicon valley. However, this story comes from the back-streets, down on the ground, the…
Posted on Tue 3 Mar 2009
Last year saw the launch of igfest programmed by iglab and studio resident Simon games.The hugely successful Interesting Games Festival 2008 took place in Bristol from 19th-21st September 2008 as part of the Bristol Community Festival and brought together people…
