Posted on Mon 3 Nov 2014
Last week was packed with playful workshops hosted by REACT and the Playable City team, and we were alerted to some exciting new projects coming from Anagram and Rik Lander. This week, we hosted the first REACT Play Sandbox workshop, bringing academics and creatives together to explore new ways of…
Posted on Fri 24 Oct 2014
This week, we had a space launch, we donned the Oculus Rift to demo Oscar Raby’s immersive documentary, Assent and we welcomed four brilliant new residents into the mix.At 18:59 last night, a Chinese rocket took off with a radio experiment for Pocket Spacecraft. A group of Bristol and UWE students…
Posted on Wed 22 Oct 2014
On 19 September we were joined by Nikki Pugh, who has been in residence at the Studio over the past couple of months, filling the Studio with jiffy bags with beating hearts and laser cut, landscape-reactive ‘armadillo/slugs’. This is all in aid of the development of her project Colony, which…
Posted on Wed 22 Oct 2014
On 12 September, product designer Peter Hathaway and illustrator Amelia Johnstone of Run To Draw gave a Lunchtime Talk about their efforts to combine invigorating outdoor exercise with the act of sketching out ideas. A shared interest in puppetry sparked the beginning of their collaboration. They…
Posted on Fri 17 Oct 2014
There is an air of anticipation in the Studio, as we prepare for the launch of two apps and one spacecraft.We’re very happy that Tim Kindberg’s Nth Screen has been shortlisted by TechSPARK.co for a SPARKies Award in the ‘Startup To Watch’ category. The app will be launching in the November,…
Posted on Mon 13 Oct 2014
The Studio has been brimming with intense discussion this week, due to the Sustaining Creativity Environmental Data Lab we hosted in partnership with Julie’s Bicycle. As part of the lab, a group of artists and technologists (some Studio residents, some exciting new faces) got together to explore…
Posted on Mon 6 Oct 2014
This week, we have amazing new project commissions, a new face, an exciting research opportunity, an exhibition launch and an upcoming environmental data lab…We have a lot of exciting REACT news this week. The six projects to be developed over the course of the Play Sandbox scheme have just been…
Posted on Thu 2 Oct 2014
For our first Lunchtime Talk of the season, we were joined by a group of Studio residents who are collaborating on a Bristol University and AHRC project, Tangible Memories. Described as half ethnographic research, half co-operative deign, the project is an investigation into the significance of the…
Posted on Fri 26 Sep 2014
There are plenty of interesting free events to get stuck into at the moment including a wonderful line up of Studio Lunchtime Talks, the British Council's Blurring the Lines exhibition, OpenCo Bristol and Bath's Innovation Showcase and 'The Mothershed'. Studio Producer Verity and Creative…
Posted on Fri 19 Sep 2014
In recent weeks, the Studio has been an obstacle course of plinths, stands and signs in preparation for taking some marvelous projects out into the world to be discovered. REACT’s Objects Sandbox is being showcased at Christie’s and the V&A as part of London Design Week, and Shadowing has…
