Posted on Tue 17 Feb 2015
“I was initially painting clouds but this was in the 60s when everyone was out on the streets so I no longer wanted to paint clouds, I wanted to interact with the environment and the actuality of society” Fujiko Nakaya
Posted on Fri 13 Feb 2015
Tomorrow, 14 February 2015, the Pervasive Media Studio will celebrate it's seventh birthday. As we are not (all) in the habit of coming in on Saturday, we had a lovely wee tea and cake party this afternoon. I stood on a bench and said a thing (once a drama student...) and I thought I might share it…
Posted on Fri 13 Feb 2015
As we get ready to revel in birthday celebrations, we gear up for the 3rd year of the Playable City Award, welcome new residents to the Studio and see David, our Creative Technologist getting stuck into a lot of exciting project-tinkering.Hello Lamp Post went live in Austin Texas yesterday. Pan…
Posted on Fri 6 Feb 2015
From Rainclouds to photo-sharing apps, satellites to mind-controlled beer robots, a plethora of weird and wonderful prototypes were born in the Studio this week…
Posted on Wed 4 Feb 2015
Written by Jess, our projects coordinator at the time, who guest programmed the talk.Last autumn, resident Rosie Poebright introduced the fascinating premise behind the work of Splash & Ripple, who's mission is to make beautiful, genuinely moving experiences that put the participants at the…
Posted on Tue 3 Feb 2015
On 19 December, we were joined by Davy & Kristin McGuire, Sarah Ellis, Matt Hayler and Karin Brown, who gave a Lunchtime Talk about their REACT Prototype funded project, Theatre Book.
Posted on Fri 30 Jan 2015
This week, we catch wind of more stunning work coming from residents Circumstance, we marvel over new iterations of Di Mainstone’s wearable musical devices and ‘bridge dongers’ for the Human Harp project and we raise a congratulatory toast to Chloe Meineck, who has been selected to got to…
Posted on Fri 23 Jan 2015
This week, we have been zipping ourselves into Teleportation Tents and working out how to strike a balance between storytelling and play, we played with prototype robots that had been designed to demystify computing concepts for 13 – 14 year olds, and we were host to a brilliant Urban Interaction…
Posted on Tue 20 Jan 2015
We are on the cusp of a lot of exciting new research this month, as academics prepare to investigate locative media and site-specific history, the neuroscience of taste and the process and benefits of co-developing projects with children. Victoria Forrest has also launched her brilliant Apps for the…
Posted on Mon 19 Jan 2015
On 28 November, Ed Rogers and Steph Tyszka came to the Studio to talk about the recent decline in Braille literacy and their work developing affordable and accessible refreshable Braille devices. Here are a few of the key points I took away.A decline in Braille literacy - Braille is…
