Posted on Mon 19 Jun 2017
Do we need to become fluent in sign language before we can begin to understand art created by our Deaf communities, or is there another way to appreciate their creative work?
Posted on Fri 9 Jun 2017
Borahm Kim is a media artist and a director of creative group Untitled Road. She is here on a studio residency from South Korea and hoping to develop scenarios and methods for non-verbal storytelling inspired by bringing together different languages and cultures.Borahm spoke at the lunchtime talk…
Posted on Fri 2 Jun 2017
Before giving It Must Have Been Dark By Then a go for myself, I had heard a lot about Duncan Speakman’s commission by Ambient Literature; a two year long collaboration investigating the future of the book. During the two day Ambient Literature Symposium here at the Watershed I curiously watched…
Posted on Fri 2 Jun 2017
Becca Rose is an artist, designer, and educator. In 2015 she started to explore ways to connect paper pages with sounds and animations on a tablet and has since developed an app for creating and sharing children’s stories across digital and physical spaces. The app Bear Abouts was recently awarded…
Posted on Tue 30 May 2017
The role of art and culture in the city is changing. Moving from the arts venue and audience, towards going ‘out’ into the city, nurturing a vision of the city itself as a creative, participative space in which citizens are themselves makers are "co-creators". Eleanor Pender spoke to us about…
Posted on Fri 26 May 2017
"Ambient Literature is comprised of many ideas. Some of them might be in conflict with each other, and we think that’s fine. We think that’s a healthy thing for an emergent form."
Posted on Mon 22 May 2017
Why do we seem to be making so many strange choices? For democracy to work, any population needs to be well informed, but are people really motivated by facts, and can we make information more enjoyable?
Posted on Wed 17 May 2017
We are delighted to share a short film documenting the work developed by Edson Burton, during his recent Artist Residency at Pervasive Media Studio.
Posted on Tue 16 May 2017
The release of my end of residency video marks a new milestone in my journey the Last Blues Song of a Lost Afronaut.
Posted on Fri 12 May 2017
David Lisser is an artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and over the next three months he will be working between Newcastle and the Pervasive Media Studio on a new research-led project called Meal Plans.Meal Plans imagines the future of food as if it were history, and David will work alongside…
