Studio blog
Dance Like 10,000 People Are Watching
Posted on Tue 13 Oct 2015
Pervasive Media Studio fortnightly blog
Lunchtime talk write-up
The making of Black Tonic: Where technology meets a theatre adventure in a hotel
Posted on Tue 13 Oct 2015
Artistic Director of The Other Way Works and Studio resident Katie Day joined us to talk about the making of detective thriller story Black Tonic. Katie hopes it’s more “David Lynch than Cluedo”.
Lunchtime talk write-up
Our experience building up a Bristol start up, from conception to Twitter acquisition
Posted on Fri 2 Oct 2015
Founder of SecondSync and Senior Product Manager for Twitter, Andy Littledale, joined us to talk data, behaviour patterns, and his journey from a bootstrap start up to Twitter acquisition.
Studio blog
The Showcase, the Symposium, and the Festival
Posted on Tue 29 Sep 2015
All good things come to an end, and never was a saying so true as we wave off our incredible cohort of Summer Residents as they come to the end of their stint with us in the Studio. To mark their time, give them a space to reflect on their progress and share their ideas, we organised the Summer…
2015 Studio Artist in Residence: Ashley James Brown
Posted on Tue 29 Sep 2015
We are delighted to share this new project film by Benjie Croce and Dom Gaskell.In summer 2015, we were joined by creative coder, technologist, sound artist and electronic musician Ashley James Brown as Studio Artist in Residence. Taking up residence in Watershed's creative technology research and…
Lunchtime talk write-up
A Chorus of Bollocks: The Music of What People Really Think
Posted on Tue 22 Sep 2015
Director-composer and performance artist Jennifer Bell has been developing a new politically-fuelled piece exclusively for the No Boundaries conference named 'The Babel Choir Project'
Studio blog
Chasing the Clouds Away
Posted on Mon 21 Sep 2015
It has all, rather suddenly, gone a bit autumnal, but conditions are anything but drab in the Studio. With residents returning from their summer holidays, a typical week is fast paced, packed full of energy, and punctuated by the return of our Open Studio Fridays. Since they began back up four weeks…
Lunchtime talk write-up
PowerStream – Mobile Power as a Sharable Commodity: lunchtime talk write up
Posted on Mon 14 Sep 2015
On Fri 11 Sept we were joined by Jarrod Knibbe, Diego Martinez and Paul Worgan from the Bristol Interaction and Graphics group at the University of Bristol as they introduced us to PowerStream, a new approach to sharing power across mobile devices. Here are the five things I…
Lunchtime talk write-up
Evolving Atomic and Molecular Aesthetics
Posted on Sat 5 Sep 2015
UWE lecturer and studio resident Tom Mitchell and creative technologies intern Ed Davies joined us to talk Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC).
Lunchtime talk write-up
Is the earth hollow? Storytelling with obscure theories and unusual optics
Posted on Fri 4 Sep 2015
On Friday 28 August Studio resident Tom McDonagh introduced his new theatre show ‘Hollow’, and talked about 19th century lectures, expeditions to the North Pole, and 3D shadow puppetry.