Posted on Thu 26 Jun 2014
Last Friday, Studio resident and nu desine founder Adam Place gave a talk about the Alphasphere. a pressure sensitive, multi-faceted instrument (or ‘3D Space Bongo’ as Stuff Magazine once called it). Adam was also very excited to speak to us about a new REACT funded IoT project nu desine are…
Posted on Fri 20 Jun 2014
The Studio is in making mode, as we welcome this year’s Playable City Award winners Jonathan and Matthew into the Studio for the first time, we hear tales of late night hacking after David and Arthur’s excursion to Tate modern, where they made colourstories with light out of Tate data, and Laura…
Posted on Fri 20 Jun 2014
On 6 June, Studio residents Tim Kindberg, Charlotte Crofts and Mandy Rose gave a talk about their brilliant new REACT funded project Nth Camera, which aims to democratise and popularise multi-viewpoint, multi-screen video. Tim introduced us to the software, and gave us a live demo, and then Mandy…
Posted on Thu 19 Jun 2014
For last week’s lunchtime talk team members from across Watershed chaired a discussion about the upcoming Fun Palaces programme that will take over Watershed on 4 – 5 October this year.Fun Palaces are a held around the world on the same day, when the audience has the opportunity to take over a…
Posted on Wed 18 Jun 2014
The first Danceroom Spectroscopy scientific research paper has been made public. Residents David Glowacki, Phill Tew and Tom Mitchell are among the authors. David, Project Leader, has just written a blog about it: "It’s been a long time coming… but the first dS scientific research paper has been…
Posted on Fri 13 Jun 2014
This week brought us sunshine, ice cream, and better still, the announcement of this year’s Playable City Award winners, Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier with their project, Shadowing. The studio and twitter is buzzing with positive reviews about Studio projects that made their way up to…
Posted on Wed 11 Jun 2014
On Tuesday 3 June, we hosted the second Being There workshop in the Studio. Funded by the EPSRC, the workshop was one in a series of activities that brings together a group of brilliant creative practitioners, technologists and academics, to explore how cutting-edge robotics can enable people to…
Posted on Wed 11 Jun 2014
Last Friday, Studio Resident and UWE academic Seth Giddings gave a Lunchtime Talk on the subject of children and imaginative play in the era of the videogame. The talk was a brief introduction to some of the key ideas explored in a book he has recently written on the subject.Seth started the talk by…
Posted on Tue 10 Jun 2014
On 23 May, we gathered for a Lunchtime talk by Studio Residents Duncan Speakman, a Bristol based artist and musician and Tom Abba, a writer, designer and UWE academic, whose work explores the form of digital and physical books. They came to speak about their artists’ collective, Circumstance,…
Posted on Fri 6 Jun 2014
This week has been all about robots and beautiful prototypes as we hosted the second ever Being There: Robots in Public Spaces workshop, held the Objects Sandbox Work in Progress Show, and played about with the brilliant Nth Camera.On Tuesday, we hosted the second ever Being There workshop in the…
