Posted on Fri 2 May 2014
We have been showered in surprising and delightful applications to our Playable City Award, and we now have a shortlist! We also observe some lovely projects being soldered/stitched together, and read Victoria’s wonderful blog about the legacy of the Recife: The Playable City cultural exchange.It…
Posted on Thu 1 May 2014
On Friday 11 April, as a break from our usual Lunchtime Talk format, we handed the reins over to anyone who had a project or idea that they wanted to discuss. Residents and visitors sat together to bounce ideas off each other, and to get support, feedback and inspiration. Here are a few of the key…
Posted on Fri 25 Apr 2014
Full of eggs and well rested, we returned to the Studio on Tuesday for some intense Playable City Award shortlisting, to track the whereabouts of the Studio’s first spacecraft in space and to teach a group of school kids how to make synchronised multi-screen movies using Nth Camera. Tuesday was a…
Posted on Thu 17 Apr 2014
The Studio is looking spritely in the sunshine, and we have reason to be in a good mood, as we receive exciting applications for this year’s Playable City Award, hear news from Brazil at the end of the Recife: The Playable City sprint, and celebrate man’s first space flight with an intergalactic…
Posted on Tue 15 Apr 2014
Last Friday, we were joined by Isobel Tarr, who is working with Invisible Dust to bring community project, HighWaterLine to Bristol this July. Using a football pitch marker, heaps of chalk, and a lot of help from people who live in affected areas, the project promotes awareness and discussion of…
Posted on Thu 10 Apr 2014
On Friday 21 March, Gilles Pradeau and Philo van Kemenade came to the Studio to talk about Popathon, a series of weekend hackathons that bring filmmakers, web developers and designers together to explore web-native storytelling. Gilles and Philo were at Watershed to take part in i-Docs, an…
Posted on Tue 8 Apr 2014
We’re delighted to announce an open call for a new Studio Artist Residency for 2014 - a fantastic opportunity for artists to explore ideas at the point where art, culture and technology meet.This residency is suited to artists seeking time and space to think, share and make new work. Made possible…
Posted on Mon 7 Apr 2014
This week, the UK participants of Recife:The Playable City along with some brilliant members of the Studio team flew to Brazil for the second part of the lab, we watch with bated breath as Hello Lamp Post gets through to the second round of the Social Vote for Designs of the Year 2014, and we…
Posted on Fri 4 Apr 2014
On Friday 14 March, Studio residents Tom Melamed and Sam Machin gave a lunchtime talk about the promises and pitfalls of iBeacon technology, and the possibility that this could be the first indoor location technology that actually works.Tom began the talk by telling us a bit about their backgrounds.
Posted on Thu 27 Mar 2014
On 7 March, we were delighted to be joined by Daniel Meadows, photographer and documentarist, who came to the Studio to talk about a project he is currently developing, Talking Pictures, and his career-spanning efforts to create a democratic media.At the beginning of the talk, Daniel spoke candidly…
