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Pink Friday Fandom: Becoming Barbie with Nicki Minaj

Posted on Thu 17 Dec 2015

Jennifer Whitney has recently joined us in the Studio as a Research Fellow with the Digital Cultures Research Centre, exploring ideas around ‘The Automation of Everyday Life.’

May Abdalla and Amy Rose of Anagram
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NIGHTWATCHERS – Designing for the Tower of London

Posted on Tue 15 Dec 2015

Fresh from making NIGHTWATCHERS, a nocturnal experience at the Tower of London, residents Amy Rose and May Abdalla shared their learnings in a brilliantly subtitled talk ‘Whose art is it anyway? Confidence and Compromise'.

Playable City Day involved a game of Sneaks & Blaggers (Photo credit: City ID)
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Business as usual

Posted on Wed 25 Nov 2015

Alongside The Rooms festival, which has been a big part of Studio life these past few weeks, the Studio residents have been ploughing full steam ahead with their work, and we have plenty of emerging news to share with you.

Rosie at The Rooms

Remember, remember the 5th of November... Reviewing The Rooms Festival

Posted on Wed 25 Nov 2015

As Studio Assistant, I'm very much a fixture of Studio whilst I'm based here 5 days a week. However, I was given the brilliant opportunity to venture out to both attend and usher at a very special one-off event that happened earlier this month. The Rooms festival by REACT took over Bristol old…

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Making movies with your mobile

Posted on Mon 23 Nov 2015

On Friday 13 November we welcomed Rife alumni, Director of Photography and camera expert Jack Edwards to the Studio talk to us about making movies with your mobile.

Matt Bjerregaard with his labour of love
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Discovering Sense of Place through a large scale hybrid zoetrope

Posted on Mon 16 Nov 2015

Resident conservationist, film director and visual artist, Matt Bjerregaard, took the floor on Friday 23 October to reflect on and share his experiences of his recent creative endeavour. Matt was commissioned by Somerset Art Weeks to collaborate with two other artists, and using a combination of…

VRGO chair

VRGo Kickstarter launching tonight

Posted on Tue 3 Nov 2015

Introducing VRGo: the tilting and twisting gaming chair that allows you to navigate virtual reality by moving your body.Studio resident Joe Ryan, founder of VRGo is poised to kick off a kickstarter campaign for £20k tonight with a bit of a do here at the Studio.VRGo are today launching a…

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Sentiment

Posted on Thu 29 Oct 2015

Sentiment is a multi-sensory experience, delivering layered audio through seven speakers to one audience member at a time. Here are four things I learned from artist Diane Wiltshire’s Lunchtime Talk about Sentiment.