Posted on Thu 19 Jun 2014
For last week’s lunchtime talk team members from across Watershed chaired a discussion about the upcoming Fun Palaces programme that will take over Watershed on 4 – 5 October this year.Fun Palaces are a held around the world on the same day, when the audience has the opportunity to take over a…
Posted on Wed 18 Jun 2014
The first Danceroom Spectroscopy scientific research paper has been made public. Residents David Glowacki, Phill Tew and Tom Mitchell are among the authors. David, Project Leader, has just written a blog about it: "It’s been a long time coming… but the first dS scientific research paper has been…
Posted on Fri 13 Jun 2014
This week brought us sunshine, ice cream, and better still, the announcement of this year’s Playable City Award winners, Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier with their project, Shadowing. The studio and twitter is buzzing with positive reviews about Studio projects that made their way up to…
Posted on Wed 11 Jun 2014
On Tuesday 3 June, we hosted the second Being There workshop in the Studio. Funded by the EPSRC, the workshop was one in a series of activities that brings together a group of brilliant creative practitioners, technologists and academics, to explore how cutting-edge robotics can enable people to…
Posted on Wed 11 Jun 2014
Last Friday, Studio Resident and UWE academic Seth Giddings gave a Lunchtime Talk on the subject of children and imaginative play in the era of the videogame. The talk was a brief introduction to some of the key ideas explored in a book he has recently written on the subject.Seth started the talk by…
Posted on Tue 10 Jun 2014
On 23 May, we gathered for a Lunchtime talk by Studio Residents Duncan Speakman, a Bristol based artist and musician and Tom Abba, a writer, designer and UWE academic, whose work explores the form of digital and physical books. They came to speak about their artists’ collective, Circumstance,…
Posted on Fri 6 Jun 2014
This week has been all about robots and beautiful prototypes as we hosted the second ever Being There: Robots in Public Spaces workshop, held the Objects Sandbox Work in Progress Show, and played about with the brilliant Nth Camera.On Tuesday, we hosted the second ever Being There workshop in the…
Posted on Mon 2 Jun 2014
The Studio would like to host a Young Rewired State Festival of Code at Watershed from Monday 28th to Thursday 31st July 2014. In order to be able to collaborate with Young Rewired State on their great programme we are looking for volunteer mentors. Do you have some time to support the next…
Posted on Fri 30 May 2014
This week, we’re slowly shuffling to the edges of our seats as we approach the announcement of this year’s Playable City Award winner, the Studio was home to a brilliant discussion about creativity and citizenship, we had a good crop of Studio affiliates speaking at San Francisco’s tech…
Posted on Fri 23 May 2014
Today, the faint sound of tapping feet and harmonious synth is drifting through the Studio, as Guerilla Dance Project’s Laura Kriefman rehearses Kicking the Mic, folding Nth Camera into the mix. Wires and PCBs pile up around Kaspar, who is working on a robot kit for kids, our producers are…
