Posted on Wed 6 Aug 2014
Last week, David hacked an incredible choir in the bar, Matthew and Jonathan started testing prototypes for Shadowing and both Calvium and Victoria Forrest released apps, which share (or encourage people to share) stories of the past.Choral music drifted through Watershed this week as our creative…
Posted on Fri 25 Jul 2014
The Studio is brimming with history this week, as Kaspar wires up an interactive shoe installation for National Trust’s Croome Country House, Calvium releases an AppTrail of 15th Century Florence, and Splash and Ripple launch their 14th Century adventure at Bodium castle.Kaspar has been reworking…
Posted on Thu 24 Jul 2014
Last Friday, Studio resident Laura Kriefman gave our last Lunchtime Talk of the summer. She spoke to us about her upcoming performance, Kicking the Mic (taster video here), which she has been developing together with composer Lee Malcolm. The performance has been commissioned by this year’s…
Posted on Fri 11 Jul 2014
This week, the Suspension Bridge Trust have been in the Studio developing their location based historical app, commemorating 150 years of the iconic Bristol structure, we saw the launch of the Cycle of Songs app that Calvium helped to build, and we hear news that Calvium are about to embark on an…
Posted on Thu 10 Jul 2014
Last Friday, Kevin Moss came to the Studio to talk about the art of telling stories across platforms as a pioneering form of theatre. He talked us through The Nightvision Experiment, a real time Twitter/YouTube horror story that he produced and co-created as part of PlayThisNext, and gave us an…
Posted on Fri 4 Jul 2014
This week, Nikki has been making fascinating GPS affected creatures, the Studio was covered in cake crumbs and arduinos for our Great British Make Off, and Verity flew to Bilbao to talk about Playable City and make some exciting connections.
Posted on Fri 27 Jun 2014
This week Amy Rose and Laura Kriefman have been building exciting things for Glastonbury, nu desine have been making a world record attempt and Kaspar has been working on Tiddlybot robot kits for children.Residents Amy Rose and Laura Kriefman have both been building installations for the Greenpeace…
Posted on Thu 26 Jun 2014
Last Friday, Studio resident and nu desine founder Adam Place gave a talk about the Alphasphere. a pressure sensitive, multi-faceted instrument (or ‘3D Space Bongo’ as Stuff Magazine once called it). Adam was also very excited to speak to us about a new REACT funded IoT project nu desine are…
Posted on Fri 20 Jun 2014
The Studio is in making mode, as we welcome this year’s Playable City Award winners Jonathan and Matthew into the Studio for the first time, we hear tales of late night hacking after David and Arthur’s excursion to Tate modern, where they made colourstories with light out of Tate data, and Laura…
Posted on Fri 20 Jun 2014
On 6 June, Studio residents Tim Kindberg, Charlotte Crofts and Mandy Rose gave a talk about their brilliant new REACT funded project Nth Camera, which aims to democratise and popularise multi-viewpoint, multi-screen video. Tim introduced us to the software, and gave us a live demo, and then Mandy…
