Posted on Tue 25 May 2010
Our final event is looming into sight... We have been busily collecting people's perceptions on what is magic and have come up with some interesting revelations which will feed into our final piece. The major one seems to be that people experience magic in the natural world, as natural occurrences…
Posted on Tue 25 May 2010
Theatre Sandbox is a national commissioning scheme for theatre-makers to provide time and space to research and develop experimental pieces of performance that engage with pervasive technologies. Theatre Sandbox extends the learning iShed has gained over two years of successfully running Media…
Posted on Mon 24 May 2010
I set up an installation test here in the Pervasive Media Studio last week as part of my work in progress presentation. It actually went pretty well, although it wasn't a comprehensive test, due to time restrictions I only asked for one volunteer, I was really pleased to get the exact feedback I…
Posted on Thu 20 May 2010
Under the AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship scheme at the pervasive media studio, Constance Fleuriot and Jon Dovey are developing DCRC research into how we describe and define both the language and value of pervasive media. We are running a series of discussion sessions involving studio residents…
Posted on Fri 14 May 2010
In March 2010, Visual Artist Tine Bech hosted a series of Light Graffiti workshops exploring the space in and around Watershed through drawing with light. Watershed were working with Tine towards the installation of an interactive artwork and the workshops were the first step in researching people's…
Posted on Thu 13 May 2010
Ralph Hoyte (poet), Marc Yeats (composer) & Phill Phelps (coder) have now been working on their Frome Maidens project since February. The Frome Maidens is a GPS-triggered music/poetryscape laid out along the course of the River Frome, from her source near Old Sodbury to her conjunction with the…
Posted on Wed 12 May 2010
It’s become popular to use technology to ‘measure’ emotions as part of an interactive 'process'. But do we really want to know how fast our heart’s beating or how sweaty our hands are? And if a computer knows this how can it really translate these things into anything useful for us…
Posted on Mon 10 May 2010
Last week I visited the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. This is part of my discussions with different technology researchers whose interest is in social and emotional human-computer interaction. I've also visited Microsoft Research Cambridge where I'm being helped by Kenton O'Hara, John Helmes,…
Posted on Mon 10 May 2010
Cast your imagination forward to a time when there are no special people called ‘artists’ who make sanctified ‘art’ but eve
Posted on Thu 6 May 2010
We've had a busy week, meeting with Musion (see previous entry) in London where we were shown the wonders of their use of Pepper's Ghost technology. We are now looking into the use of multiple screens, where audiences will see other members 'performing' in an environment which they are unaware…
