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Playable City shortlist AND Artist in Residence announced!

Posted on Fri 22 May 2015

This week, the Studio was a-fizz with excitement as we announced the shortlist for this year’s Playable City Award. We had a wonderful response to the call out, with ideas flooding in from no less than 60 countries across the globe. It has been hard, but we have whittled these down to a shortlist…

Image of Matt Bjerregaard delivering his talk
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Evolving eyes for environmental narratives

Posted on Tue 19 May 2015

New Studio resident Matt Bjerregaard joined us on Friday 15 May to talk about hacking cameras, sharing narratives, diving, conservation science and wingsuiting.

Strange Thoughts' LED hula-hoops
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New Heights and Hula-Hoop Lights

Posted on Fri 8 May 2015

In the last couple of weeks, we hosted a colour-splattered feast, simultaneously launched both an app and Paul Archer off a giant crane and debuted synchronised, LED hula-hoops at Brixton Academy.

A photograph from Nikki's Splacist adventure in the Shropshire hills
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Storyscapes and Splacism

Posted on Fri 24 Apr 2015

This week, Anagram won the Tribeca Storyscapes Award, Daredevil Project launched their Duel app on the app store, Hello Lamp Post goes live in Tokyo and we catch up with Nikki Pugh to find out about her recent project, Where the Sky Widens.We are very proud of residents Amy and May (Anagram), who…

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Door Into The Dark wins at Tribeca

Posted on Fri 24 Apr 2015

Studio residents Anagram have won the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes Award for their extraordinary immersive documentary, Door Into the Dark.

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Beta Duelling, Brute and Berserker

Posted on Fri 10 Apr 2015

This week, we are surreptitiously casting an eye around for the elusive eggs that remain unfound after last week’s egg hunt, we have closed applications for this year’s Playable City Award and we are having fun beta testing Daredevil’s Duel app.

The McGuires' Theatre Book
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UCAN Go, Understory and the unbelievably beautiful Theatre Book

Posted on Fri 27 Mar 2015

There are less than two weeks to apply to this year’s Playable City Award, which offers £30K and support to realise an idea that places people at the heart of future cities. The word is spreading about the Playable City concept, and the British Council have invited Playable City Producer, Hilary…

Karen Palmer, talking about the moment she first discovered neurogames
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Syncself 2

Posted on Thu 26 Mar 2015

On 30 January, we were joined by transmedia storyteller Karen Palmer, who came to talk to us about her recent Parkour Neurogame, SYNCSELF 2.

At 9:40 this morning, just outside Watershed, a floppy disk was given a new lease of life...
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Floppy Disks and Omniscient Card Tables

Posted on Fri 20 Mar 2015

We have a lot of exciting project developments to share with you this week. Human Harp, Nano Simbox, and Black Tonic are all in full swing, preparing to launch later this year. We have also discovered a novel use for floppy discs as Bristol was temporarily dunked into dusk during this morning’s…