Image of Alberto Arribas during the Lunchtime Talk
Lunchtime talk write-up

Informatics Lab: Useful and Beautiful Data

Posted on Wed 15 Jun 2016

The Met Office Informatics Lab recently celebrated its first birthday. Its remit is to make environmental data useful and to challenge Met Office’s traditional internal structures.

Photo of Clara Giraud and Jo Verrent, courtesy of Unlimited by Rachel Cherry

Unlimited access – my time with Clara

Posted on Wed 15 Jun 2016

Unlimited works with disabled artists to embed their work within the UK cultural sector, challenge perceptions of disabled people and reach new audiences. Here's some thoughts about my time shadowing Clara...

Four photos from the Immersion Dance Lunchtime Talk of people using VR headsets.
Lunchtime talk write-up

Immersion Dance

Posted on Tue 14 Jun 2016

Jack from Zubr Reality and Julia from Julia Thorneycroft Dance Theatre joined forces to collaborate on an experimental project testing new ways to present dance in virtual and augmented reality.

Photo of Tristan Powell's Lunchtime Talk
Lunchtime talk write-up

Bodyoki – Shaping the way we move to music

Posted on Mon 6 Jun 2016

Recording engineer, musician and new Studio resident Tristan Powell introduced us to Bodyoki – a gestural system that changes the way we move to music.

Image by Artur Tixiliski © Sabrina Shirazi
Project blog by Sabrina Shirazi

Posted on Fri 3 Jun 2016

Smells at Taste Tech and tech stints with Haylock

Image by Artur Tixiliski © Sabrina Shirazi
Project blog by Sabrina Shirazi

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

The first two weeks of the Food & Tech residency have been full to the brim with really exciting conversations with At-Bristol, the team at Watershed and the Bristol Braillists (to name a few).Here are a few pieces of the puzzle I am hoping to pull together: It'll all make sense soon but in the…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

Excuse the title's pun... Time to report! Wow, keeping a more-than-full-time job and a blog is hard work. Over the past two weeks I have been sketching ideas for hands with alternative looks - unconventional shapes, features, colours. I can’t really show much because our most recent designs…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

The workshop I have been working towards with great anticipation finally happened! I couldn’t have done it without the help of Verity, my colleagues from Open Bionics and awesome interns Beverley and Barney, and we can’t say thank you enough for the generosity of those who joined us yesterday,…

Project blog by Rosie Cooke

Posted on Thu 26 May 2016

This past week I’ve been focusing on music, writing for voice and experimenting with the combination of different sensors as a means of controlling sound effectively and meaningfully. I’ve also been building a write-up around a project idea I’ve been developing over the last few weeks. It’s…