Posted on Fri 9 Jan 2009
After many international events and trips to Spain, China and the United States, AntiVJ ended their year with a fantastic performance at home. The event took place on the 20th of December 2008 at Bristol’s Croft and featured a live painting session by Joanie Lemercier and an hour of live visuals…
Posted on Tue 30 Dec 2008
As the year draws to a close, the opening of the Pervasive Media Studio is featured in Design Week's Review of 2008.
Posted on Mon 22 Dec 2008
Last week Pervasive Media Studio Producer Dr Constance Fleuriot held a meeting to discuss the ethical issues of Pervasive Media. Working on public engagement and academic projects, Dr Fleuriot has worked extensively with young people in a variety of settings over the past few years and is aware of…
Posted on Fri 19 Dec 2008
I am just beginning to get started with looking at ethical issues around the sort of work we all do, to try and alleviate some of the niggling feeling I get when hearing what wonderful pervasive stuff is being developed. Having worked quite extensively with young people in a variety of settings over…
Posted on Wed 17 Dec 2008
Our December session of Gadget Club was held in the Arnolfini light studio, which they kindly let us use as pmstudio was full of plone developers that weekend. So we got together and played with magnets, batteries and bits of wire, to make homopolar motors, basically making things spin. We also…
Posted on Fri 12 Dec 2008
Today Happy Packages team members Ben and Tom (me) tried to test out the new idea for sharing location based content. You can read the previous post, but a quick summary of the idea is people leaving their thoughts on venues/art/places of interest around town, and those being available for others to…
Posted on Wed 10 Dec 2008
Without too much argument the eShed team selected the obligatory 24 films for the ED08 calendar from over 40 that were submitted, all made by young people. Sam and Taz made a trailer of clips from the films which you can see on You Tube or, if you hang around in Millennium Square near the PM Studio…
Posted on Tue 9 Dec 2008
Borders – Festival / workshop /network meeting, hosted by Cinémas du Palais, Créteil, Paris. 18th – 22ND NOVEMBER 2008. Liz Milner and Sam Woodcock from eShedBorders is an international network of film-related organisations who firmly believe that film has the power to…
Posted on Tue 9 Dec 2008
The official line isn't ideal, since we're a little off target in terms of nailing down business partners for a key milestone, but the far more exciting and important news is that the idea has undergone a rennaisance! Following our meeting with Sharon from the Watershed we went back to the drawing…
Posted on Wed 3 Dec 2008
The studio is missing a few residents this week as they have been whisked off to Belfast to both attend and mentor workshops at mscapeFest08. After a great conference last year, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories has organised a two day conference for mediascape, pervasive, locative and interactive media…
