Posted on Thu 21 Nov 2013
Last week the Studio hosted the world’s first Magic Hack. What do hacked e-cigarettes, bone conductors, polymorph, conductive paint and RFID tags have to do with magic? We didn’t know, but we had a team of magicians and creative technologists who were ready to find out.In the initial…
Posted on Wed 20 Nov 2013
Last Friday we were joined by Hannah Nicklin and Seth Honnor who came to talk to us about the latest developments of Digital Hat; a project focussing on using pervasive technologies to revolutionise the concept of value exchange surrounding live events.Digital HatThis talk was a kind of follow up to…
Posted on Wed 13 Nov 2013
Over the next couple of weeks, the Watershed will be showing a couple of films that link up with some of the interests of the Pervasive Media Studio and its residents.Project Wild Thing is David Bond’s call to parents to ‘stop buying iPads and take your children outdoors.’ Having grown up…
Posted on Wed 13 Nov 2013
Following our new resident competition launched earlier this year, we are delighted to welcome four fantastic new faces to the Pervasive Media Studio community.Graduate and new talent residents:Josh Barnes is a recent graduate in 3-D Design from the University Of Brighton. Josh's work explores the…
Posted on Wed 13 Nov 2013
Last Friday, we were joined by Jody Mason and Gaz Bushell; two old friends who used to spend a lot of time playing videogames together. Jody and Gaz’s professional careers have taken them in very different directions from each other. Jody is a senior lecturer at Essex University, who has been…
Posted on Sun 10 Nov 2013
It’s been an exciting week in the Studio as we hosted Wales’ first Digital Producers Lab, we held a work in progress event for our magicians in residence and two of our residents have been preparing to speak at TEDxBristol. Read on to find out all about these developments and more...This week we…
Posted on Wed 6 Nov 2013
Last Friday, one of our newest residents, Silas Adekunle came to the Studio equipped with some many-limbed plastic creatures to tell us about his start-up company Reach Robotics, and the future of toy robots.BeginningsSilas told us that from a young age he has been equally passionate about both…
Posted on Fri 1 Nov 2013
On Friday 16 November we were treated to a fantastic lunchtime talk by one of our newest Studio residents Sarah Angliss who was talk about her robotics project Trace.Background Sarah is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and digital artist, specialising in live electronic music, interactive sound and…
Posted on Thu 31 Oct 2013
This week a group of second year students from a range of communications media courses at Taylor's University, Malaysia descended on Bristol. The group is visiting Bristol as part of the University of the West of England’s global study partnership with Taylor's, which has been in place since 2004.
Posted on Thu 31 Oct 2013
Weekly Blog 21-25 OctoberThis week, the Studio has been full of youthful curiosity, as kids have been visiting to learn about conductive ink and digital storytelling, and vistoring students from Taylors University in Malaysian have been in for workshops exploring Playable Cities and Interactive…
