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Confessions Corner
Posted on Tue 3 Jul 2018
I’m writing this deep in the nook of confessions corner. I’m going to admit to something you probably don’t know about me.
Lunchtime talk write-up
Epic Games with No Code – Platforms for Designing Story Worlds
Posted on Tue 3 Jul 2018
Resident Vincent Baidoo has been exploring the expanding universe of software & apps, asking the question - can games creation become more like AV, where tools for production & design are in the hands of the many, not the few?Five Things I Learned:1. Vincent’s favourite companies are manga…
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No Bindings: A New Approach to Publishing
Posted on Mon 2 Jul 2018
No Bindings is re-inventing social publishing with hybrid books, combining sound recordings, art, text and most importantly putting people at the forefront of everything it does. We heard Lily Green, No Bindings founder and assistant producer Will Taylor discuss pivotal projects, lessons learnt and…
Lunchtime talk write-up
Building a Martian House
Posted on Mon 2 Jul 2018
Ella Good and Nicki Kent collaborate together to create work all about the future. They are currently in the midst of a ten-year project called A Decade of Mars.
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Catching up with Artists in Residence Action Hero
Posted on Fri 22 Jun 2018
This May, our latest Artists in Residence Action Hero set off from Bristol on a six month journey across Europe. In a motorhome housing a recording studio, they are currently travelling over 30,000km, recording songs of love, hope, heartbreak, loss and desire, sung by the people they meet. The…
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Introduction to A Haunted Existence
Posted on Thu 21 Jun 2018
In the early 1950s a 17-year-old called, Geoffrey Patrick Williamson was a train going from Exeter to Bristol, when he approached a plain clothed railway officer. Their brief encounter was deemed inappropriate and Williamson was arrested. On questioning, Williamson revealed the names of 17 men he…
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Immersive Histories: Dam Busters
Posted on Wed 6 Jun 2018
Around the end of 2017 All Seeing Eye, made up of four team members, proposed an historically accurate XR experience that explores virtual reality, physicality and is set on a large WWII aircraft called the G-George. Resident Olie Kay shared with us the processes they went through to create The Dam…
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Mayfest co-production: Automated Theatre and Human Agency
Posted on Tue 5 Jun 2018
Remy is one third of Hong Kong Exile, an interdisciplinary arts company and non-profit organization based in Vancouver.
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From Science Fiction to Reality: How Open Bionics Creates Bionic Limbs from Video Games and Movies for Amputees
Posted on Thu 31 May 2018
Open Bionics is a start-up company based in the Bristol Robotics Lab that create open source designs for functional prosthetic limbs, starting with the bionic arm.
Lunchtime talk write-up
Video Nation Revisited
Posted on Tue 29 May 2018
Mandy Rose first joined BBC in 1991. She started working as sound recordist, before going onto produce documentary film and co-found ground-breaking media project Video Nation.