Summer Residencies Showcase: Thomas William's light and sound installation
Studio blog

The Showcase, the Symposium, and the Festival

Posted on Tue 29 Sep 2015

All good things come to an end, and never was a saying so true as we wave off our incredible cohort of Summer Residents as they come to the end of their stint with us in the Studio. To mark their time, give them a space to reflect on their progress and share their ideas, we organised the Summer…

Noise Noise Robot (NNR)

2015 Studio Artist in Residence: Ashley James Brown

Posted on Tue 29 Sep 2015

We are delighted to share this new project film by Benjie Croce and Dom Gaskell.In summer 2015, we were joined by creative coder, technologist, sound artist and electronic musician Ashley James Brown as Studio Artist in Residence. Taking up residence in Watershed's creative technology research and…

Return of Lunchtime Talks with Tom McDonagh
Studio blog

Chasing the Clouds Away

Posted on Mon 21 Sep 2015

It has all, rather suddenly, gone a bit autumnal, but conditions are anything but drab in the Studio. With residents returning from their summer holidays, a typical week is fast paced, packed full of energy, and punctuated by the return of our Open Studio Fridays. Since they began back up four weeks…

'Smart watch' and 'smart phone' dummies for experimentation
Lunchtime talk write-up

PowerStream – Mobile Power as a Sharable Commodity: lunchtime talk write up

Posted on Mon 14 Sep 2015

On Fri 11 Sept we were joined by Jarrod Knibbe, Diego Martinez and Paul Worgan from the Bristol Interaction and Graphics group at the University of Bristol as they introduced us to PowerStream, a new approach to sharing power across mobile devices. Here are the five things I…

Image thanks to Jon Aitken via twitter @jonbehere
Lunchtime talk write-up

Evolving Atomic and Molecular Aesthetics

Posted on Sat 5 Sep 2015

UWE lecturer and studio resident Tom Mitchell and creative technologies intern Ed Davies joined us to talk Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC).