Posted on Tue 16 Mar 2010
The Studio is unusually quiet today. Why? Most of the Studio community and network are currently visiting this year's South by Southwest festival which kicked off last Friday. SXSW Interactive is the world’s leading digital and interactive conference, attracting businesses from all around the…
Posted on Mon 15 Mar 2010
This year we again wanted to commission something that would become a talking point at SXSW. Something that would act as a calling card for The Umbrella Group and promote UK creativity. With support from Arts Council England, we began to throw around ideas as a group and settled on SlingShot's…
Posted on Sat 13 Mar 2010
Is it possible to upload or download instructions to the brain? We are getting closer. Christie Nicholson of Scientific American started her talk on brain computer interfaces with the obligatory William Gibson and Matrix references and then went on to give a comprehensive and fascinating history of…
Posted on Fri 12 Mar 2010
Why do we seek to fill our geek little hearts with glee through new technologies? Why do we want to stroke, hold, pinch and shake our shiny new gadgets? Because we believe they will bring us a better future with improved health, networks and jetpacks. Eris Stassi is not a futurologist, but she is…
Posted on Wed 10 Mar 2010
In the summer of last year I submitted a panel idea for SXSW which went to community vote, the SXSW Advisory Boards and SXSW staff before making it through to the first batch of events to be programmed for 2010.I am really excited to be presenting at the Festival, and have been lucky enough to…
Posted on Tue 9 Mar 2010
Poet Ralph Hoyte, composer Marc Yeats and coder Phill Phelps have been awarded an Arts Council GftA (Grant for the Arts) to develop a GPS-triggered poetic contemporary symphony, THE FROME MAIDENS.THE FROME MAIDENS, one of the first of a whole new generation of user-mediated mobile experiences, is a…
Posted on Tue 9 Mar 2010
Poet Ralph Hoyte, composer Marc Yeats and coder Phill Phelps have been awarded an Arts Council GftA (Grants for the Arts) to develop a GPS-triggered poetic contemporary symphony, THE FROME MAIDENS.THE FROME MAIDENS, one of the first of a whole new generation of user-mediated mobile experiences, is a…
Posted on Mon 8 Mar 2010
Theatre Sandbox, a new opportunity for theatre artists, companies and collectives, is offering six £10,000 commissions to support the research and development of experimental pieces of performance which engage with Pervasive Media Technologies.
Posted on Fri 5 Mar 2010
On March 12th The Tweeture will arrive at SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas, intent upon devouring its population.The Tweeture is a robot-monster of Godzilla proportions who tweets. He’s big, he’s angry and he is going to eat the delegates of SXSWi. What will become of him? Can you find him at…
Posted on Thu 4 Mar 2010
Watershed has commissioned two research residencies at the Pervasive Media Studio that will support South West artists, to produce and present projects at the juncture of art, pervasive technologies and culture. We're pleased to welcome Jay Kerry & Becca Gill. A newly formed partnership, they…
