It’s been such a jam packed few weeks in the Studio that we’re rolling two weeks into one to let you know what exciting projects and events have been happening in the Studio and beyond. There’s a funded opportunity to work on a pocket spacecraft app, #BristolProms launched and we installed the first three-dimensional pixelated portrait. Read on to find out about all this and more:

Last week saw the launch of ‘Maya’ on platform three of Bistol Temple Meads train station. ‘Maya’ is a unique three-dimensional pixelated portrait created by Bristol-based internationally renowned artist, Luke Jerram. From a distance, the sculpture is clear to see but as you move closer, it disconcertingly appears to fragment into cubes. To create the artwork, Luke scanned his young daughter using an Xbox Kinect. Her head was scanned at the Machine Vision Laboratory at the University of the West of England with software developed by deL from nu desine. Both scans were combined and pixelated into cubes, known as voxels. The model was then made from precision cut sheets of aluminium. Over 5000 coloured stickers were printed and painstakingly fixed onto the aluminium. Luke will be giving a talk in the Studio as part of Dorkbot on 20 August you can find out more details here. 'Maya' is part of the series of Bristol Temple Quarter Commissions, designed to engage people with the new Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone through cultural experiences that aim to surprise, question and delight. You can find out more here.

Paul has been working on redesigning his website for his project Daredevil Tournament. Daredevil Tournament is a mischievous team tournament played in various situations, where teams carry out ‘One-Word Tasks’ for points. Picture and video evidence of each task is uploaded to judges using the Daredevil App. Tasks must be done in the most creative and entertaining way and the Judges award points to each one – the team with the most points at the end of the tournament wins. He’s also been invited to Octoberfest with a travel company to run some tournaments during the festival and has plans to run some tournaments in New Zealand. You can find out more about Daredevil on their newly designed website here.

Excitingly there is now a European Space Agency funded student opportunity to work on Pocket Spacecraft on building an app that explorers who back the project on kickstarter will be able to use. The Pocket Mission Control app has been selected to take part in the European Space Agency (ESA) Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) 2013 program. As a result, they’re looking for a student resident in an eligible ESA member state to work with them for the next few months on the Pocket Mission Control app. You can find all the details on their kickstarter page here.

Last Friday we were joined by Barney Hawes from communications technology company Sensory Software to talk about their latest experiments using eye tracking as a control mechanism, allowing you to interact with digital and physical media, just by looking at it. It was a fantastic talk and we got to play games using the eye tracking control mechanism ourselves. We’ll be posting a blog about it early next next week so look out for it then.

This week #BristolProms kicked off. Watershed joined up with Bristol Old Vic and Universal Music Arts and Entertainment to launch #BristolProms, a festival that used digital technology to bend music into fantastical new shapes. Our Studio director Clare Reddington worked with Tom Morris to programme a series of events that fused classical music with new technologies.

On Monday night Watershed screened Jan Lisiecki: From Every Angle. 18-year-old concert pianist Jan Lisiecki is one of the world's greatest piano players whose renditions of Mozart and Chopin have earned the Canada-born wunderkind legions of fans and armfuls of awards around the world. Capturing the rhythmic vibrations on Jan's glass of water to the frenetic movement of his hands, From Every Angle, directed by John Durrant, filmmaker and director from Bristol-based design agency BDH, was an intimate interpretation of a simultaneous live performance at Bristol Old Vic, using multiple close-up cameras and digital technology to bring you closer than ever before to an extraordinary solo piano performance of selections from Chopin's groundbreaking Études. Don’t worry however if you didn’t manage to join us for the show as you can see an edited version of 'From Every Angle' as the first part of Piano Night on More 4 this Saturday 3 August at 20.00. You can find out more here.

On Tuesday and Wednesday we hosted Hack the Quartet in the Studio. Hack the Quartet brought together 20 talented and curious participants to collaborate with the Sacconi Quartet to make a range of technology-driven explorations of the chamber music world. It was a truly inspiring two days full with brilliant ideas, collaborations and full of learning for everyone involved. We documented the two days so you can find a blog all about day one here, and we’ll be posting up more blogs and videos soon so look out for them.

Then In the evening on Wednesday at Bristol Old Vic multidisciplinary design studio Play Nicely took the audience further than ever before inside the themes, characters and movements of the Four Seasons as virtuoso violinist Daniel Hope and the mighty Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra breathed warm swathes of new life into Max Richter's take on Vivalid's timeless Four Seasons. You can find out more about it here.

Today we hosted a very special Lunchtime Talk in Bristol Old Vic to showcase the fantastic work produced during Hack the Quartet. The Lunchtime Talk offered audiences an opportunity to hear about the hack, peer behind the processes and play with the demos produced.

Then this evening the fantastic Nicola Benedetti is playing at Bristol Old Vic in a show called Vibrations. Nicola will be accompanied by danceroom Spectroscopy's award-winning visualisations that fuse 3D imagery with real quantum mechanics to stunningly represent how Nicola's own energy interacts with the hidden atomic world. You can find out more here.

Also this week Vic was interviewing for Digital producers at National Theatre Wales. The interviews were to find 12 brilliant creative Digital Producers, to take part in Wales’ very first Digital Producers Lab development programme, produced by Watershed. Participants will explore different aspects of creative technology production including: how to develop brilliant ideas, project management, making business sustainable, Intellectual Property, and pitching to clients and funders. They will also have the chance to unpick a host of best practice case studies and dabble in a little creative tech development of their own. You can find out more about it here.

Lastly don’t forget to book your slot for Time Bank. Time Bank is aimed at supporting artists, filmmakers and cultural organisations who are exploring the use of digital technologies in their work. The Watershed team will offer their thoughts, learnings, mistakes and examples of related work that we have seen and rated. You can book a half an hour slot to discuss anything, or you can join us at the end of the day for an open discussion where the people who turn up will set the agenda. The next time bank will take place on 11 Sept in the Studio. To book a surgery, please email admin@pmstudio.co.uk with a short description of your work and area of interest and we will endeavour to fix you up with the appropriate member of the Watershed team. You can find out more information here.

And a quick reminder that our Lunchtime Talk programme will be taking a break over the summer, but we're already busy lining up exciting speakers for September, so check our events page for details.