Posted on Thu 28 Nov 2013
Last Friday, we were joined for another inspiring talk about collisions of physical and digital. One of this year’s graduate residents, Josh Barnes discussed hisCommunication Quilt; a project combining augmented reality technologies with traditional crafts in order to create a warm, physically…
Posted on Wed 27 Nov 2013
With over 10 years experience in the creative industries, working in design and console games (EA Games, Activision) and interactive media (Walt Disney Imagineering), Daniel Burwen, the brains behind the Operation Ajax, joined us for one of our Lunchtime Talks in October to share his thoughts and…
Posted on Fri 22 Nov 2013
This week we’ve assembled a crack team of mischief-makers to take part in Bristol’s Daredevil Tournament, we had our last Future Documentary Sandbox session and Stand + Stare have installed their interactive exhibition Everyday Relics in Manchester.
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…
