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A GPS-triggered poetic contemporary symphony

Posted on Tue 9 Mar 2010

Poet Ralph Hoyte, composer Marc Yeats and coder Phill Phelps have been awarded an Arts Council GftA (Grant for the Arts) to develop a GPS-triggered poetic contemporary symphony, THE FROME MAIDENS.THE FROME MAIDENS, one of the first of a whole new generation of user-mediated mobile experiences, is a…

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A GPS-triggered poetic contemporary symphony

Posted on Tue 9 Mar 2010

Poet Ralph Hoyte, composer Marc Yeats and coder Phill Phelps have been awarded an Arts Council GftA (Grants for the Arts) to develop a GPS-triggered poetic contemporary symphony, THE FROME MAIDENS.THE FROME MAIDENS, one of the first of a whole new generation of user-mediated mobile experiences, is a…

Image: Interpretation Figure by Luke Jerram

Theatre Sandbox - making space for great ideas

Posted on Mon 8 Mar 2010

Theatre Sandbox, a new opportunity for theatre artists, companies and collectives, is offering six £10,000 commissions to support the research and development of experimental pieces of performance which engage with Pervasive Media Technologies.


The Tweeture - set to destroy SXSWi next week

Posted on Fri 5 Mar 2010

On March 12th The Tweeture will arrive at SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas, intent upon devouring its population.The Tweeture is a robot-monster of Godzilla proportions who tweets. He’s big, he’s angry and he is going to eat the delegates of SXSWi. What will become of him? Can you find him at…

 Tracing Light © Tine Bech 2008

Artists Residencies Announced

Posted on Thu 4 Mar 2010

Watershed has commissioned two research residencies at the Pervasive Media Studio that will support South West artists, to produce and present projects at the juncture of art, pervasive technologies and culture. We're pleased to welcome Jay Kerry & Becca Gill. A newly formed partnership, they…


Pervasive Media Studio – where creative artists meet creative technologists

Posted on Fri 26 Feb 2010

FutureStory visited Bristol in late 2009 to discover how a city build on trade and engineering has developed into a key player in the green economy, academia and the creative industries. Featured amongst other Bristol-based organisations were Aardman Animations, the BBC’s Natural History Unit and…


Talk: Living in the Internet of Things, 4th March, 6.30pm, Watershed

Posted on Wed 3 Feb 2010

Cities across the world are about to enter the next phase of development. A near invisible network of radio frequency identification tags (RFID) is being deployed on many consumer items. These chips can connect to the Internet in an instant, creating a global network of physical objects or the…

Tracing Light, Tine Bech 2008

Pervasive Media Studio Artists Residencies

Posted on Fri 22 Jan 2010

Watershed is offering two research residencies at the Pervasive Media Studio that will support South West artists, to produce and present projects at the juncture of art, pervasive technologies and culture.