Project blog by Rosie Cooke

First Week of Residency

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

As an initial introduction into using rules and algorithms to make creative decisions, we have been looking at Cellular Automatons - a grid of 'cells' where the state of a cell (on or off) affects the states of the surrounding cells. They can be used to create patterns and 'life forms' which can…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

AI, Cleverbot and painting.

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

We have been researching how artificial intelligence might help us make an artwork and we have come across the work of Dr Peter Hall and Bath University. http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~pmh/start/home.html He has created programs which replicate a naive approach to painting and drawing, which is an area…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Robotic Arms, Lasers and Beetles

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

Throughout November our project has really developed. Through conversations with Pervasive Media Studio associates and staff we have realised that our concerns lie more with emergent behaviours (thanks Tarim!) in technology rather than artificial intelligences.

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Pre-Xmas Project round-up

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

We're in full festive mode now, christmas jumpers on etc. The last few weeks have been really productive though. things are in place to have the robot arm up and working in early January, complete with bespoke lasercut perspex housing. 'I am the Beetle' is now up online:…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Follow the hack!

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

There's a host of activity here at our hack, to follow the project as it develops you can use #HtheQ on twitter or check back to the Hack the Quartet storify where you'll find all the tweets, instagram photos and vine videos we're all posting. I'll also be writing more indepth blog posts here about…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Day 1: Working out the questions, inventing the answers

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

Hack the Quartet is part of Bristol Proms, our amazing group of creatives and technologists have been here all day collaborating with the Sacconi Quartet. We're coming to the end of day one of what is our first ever hack here at Watershed, here's a glimpse into what's been going on...

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Day 2: The hacks

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

If you've been following the storify you have no doubt caught some intriguing snatches of what our hackers and musicians got up to. I've been catching up with each of them to find out a little more about their projects.

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

It's all about magnetism

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

“In 53 minutes the aurora borealis should be Active.” A tweet from @Aurora_Alerts arrives as the last flakes of snow are falling outside the Pervasive Media Studios, and I find myself gazing upwards at the featureless sky wondering how this news is manifesting itself elsewhere…