Posted on Fri 23 Nov 2012
Between October 2012 and January 2013, artists Ben Sadler and Phil Duckworth of Juneau Projects are resident at Pervasive Media Studio, investigating the artistic possibilities of collaborating with ‘thinking’ machines. Watershed's Development Assistant Nicola Richardson asked Phil a few…
Posted on Fri 16 Nov 2012
Week commencing 05 November:With only six weeks to go until Christmas talk is turning to Christmas jumpers, Santa’s grotto, mulled wine and mince pies! Meanwhile our lovely Studio residents have been working away to launch new services and games, exhibited at Venturefest and had some great news,…
Posted on Tue 13 Nov 2012
On October 26 Chris Hunt from i-DAT, a creative research lab based in Plymouth, came in to give a lunchtime talk about the wonderful www.mobydickbigread.com, a digital project which sets out to re-tell Moby Dick for a 21st Century audience.Chris began his talk by asking how many of us had read Moby…
Posted on Fri 9 Nov 2012
Week commencing 29 October:Time has been flying here in the Studio; we can’t believe we’re into November already! This week has been jam packed with fantastic events from the XX GameJam in London to Cidade Campus in Portugal. There’s also been some very exciting meetings and developments for…
Posted on Fri 2 Nov 2012
There’s exciting news to report from the studio this week as lots new projects begin to flourish. Kathy Hinde http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/collaborator/kathy-hinde joined the Studio in October to develop new project Vocal Migration http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/project/vocal-migrations, in collaboration…
Posted on Fri 26 Oct 2012
It’s been a very exciting week in the Studio as Clare and Verity have been super busy preparing for the laun
Posted on Thu 25 Oct 2012
On Friday the 21st September we were treated to a very special Lunchtime Talk from the recipients of Watershed’s Studio Residencies. This year our Artists in Residence are two duos; Artists Ben Sadler and Phil Duckworth of Juneau Projects and a new collaboration between Timothy X Atack and…
Posted on Wed 24 Oct 2012
Citizen Space ScienceOn Friday 12 September our newest Studio Resident Michael Johnson from JA treated us to a very exciting Lunchtime Talk about Citizen Space Exploration and the Personal Space Age.JA was created to ensure opportunities exist to allow any private individual to participate in the…
Posted on Wed 24 Oct 2012
Operating Theatre to Immersive TheatreLast Friday we were joined in the Studio by the lovely Ad (Adam) Spiers. Ad is a research associate at Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) where he primarily researches haptic technology (which interfaces with a user via their sense of touch) and its application…
Posted on Wed 24 Oct 2012
I’d been testing the devices in the afternoon at Bedford Creative Arts, and all seemed to be working OK, although I could only get 2 to be stable enough to use and walk around with. I got to the venue at 7pm – so I had 30 mins to set them up again… At this point, the devices started to…
