Posted on Tue 23 Jun 2015
At the beginning of March, we were joined by residents Becky Sage and Mike O’Connor, who discussed iSci’s latest interactive simulation of the molecular nano-world; Nano Simbox. Developed out of its precursor project, the hugely successful touring installation, danceroom Spectroscopy, Nano…
Posted on Fri 19 Jun 2015
We have lots of exciting news to report from the last couple of weeks, including the winner of this year’s Playable City Award and details of the exciting experiments conducted as part of the latest Being There lab…This autumn, a playful pack of wild beasts will appear in unexpected places…
Posted on Tue 16 Jun 2015
In a return to one of our favourite lunchtime talk formats, this week we handed the reins over to you, our extended community. People came along to share their projects, interests, challenges and calls to action.
Posted on Fri 5 Jun 2015
We are delighted to announce the three amazing individuals who will join us as part of our New and Emerging Talent Residency programme this summer. Co-founder of Open Bionics, Sammy Payne will use the residency to explore alternative looks and functions of low-cost bionic hands. Game designer and…
Posted on Wed 3 Jun 2015
On Friday 29 May we welcomed designer Andrew Cook to the Studio to talk about Six Speaking Chairs; his PhD research project completed in collaboration with Graham Pullin.
Posted on Mon 1 Jun 2015
We are delighted to announce that robotics startup designer Vitória Maurício, game designer and producer Roz Dean and composer and designer Thomas Williams will be joining us for the Pervasive Media Studio’s 2015 New and Emerging Talent residency programme.The programme enables practitioners at…
Posted on Thu 28 May 2015
Our huge congratulations to Studio resident Silas Adekunle who has been accepted onto the prestigious Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, powered by Techstars in San Diego. From now until mid-September, Silas and his digital-physical robot gaming company, Reach Robotics will take part in…
Posted on Wed 27 May 2015
On Friday 22 May, Compass Presents Co-Founder Tara Sachdeva, Movement Director Matt Mulligan and Alex Wright from Limbic Cinema joined us to talk about film, circus, live music, projection mapping and their creative process.
Posted on Tue 26 May 2015
Studio resident Joe Ryan recently gave a lunchtime talk about issues of mobility in VR and the different ways that people are trying to get around them. As well as explaining the developments of the wider VR community, for the first time, he shared information about his new R&D project, VRGo.
Posted on Fri 22 May 2015
This week, the Studio was a-fizz with excitement as we announced the shortlist for this year’s Playable City Award. We had a wonderful response to the call out, with ideas flooding in from no less than 60 countries across the globe. It has been hard, but we have whittled these down to a shortlist…
