Image of Ghosts in the Garden by Steve Poole

Open call: Craft + Technology Residencies

Posted on Fri 5 Oct 2012

Watershed is offering three makers’ residencies to research new projects at the intersection of craft, technology and culture. Over the past decade digital fabrication tools and communication technologies have been explored and utilised as craft tools and materials in their own right, producing…

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Tweeting The Dead with QLab and the Twitter Streaming API

Posted on Thu 4 Oct 2012

I Tweet Dead People is a twitter trail through York Museum, where visitors follow clues around the museum and tweet answers to unlock the next clue. It is the outcome of a collaboration between Imagemakers, Exeter University & York Museum as part of the React Heritage Sandbox. Your browser does…

Playing the Games

Posted on Fri 28 Sep 2012

We’re rolling two weeks into one for this installment of our blog – Monday 17th to Friday 28th September. Here’s a round-up of the most exciting things that have happened in and around the Studio since our last update! Our Director Clare gave a keynote at last week’s Hide & Seek…

Slingshot - the difficult second album: Last week's Lunchtime Talk

Posted on Tue 18 Sep 2012

Friday 7 September saw our program of Lunchtime Talks kick off again after the August break with a corker from Simon Johnson, Studio alumni and co-director of Slingshot. Slingshot are a Bristol based games company with extensive experience in creating games; from mass participation spectaculars to…

Zombies, Graffiti & Game Tests

Posted on Fri 7 Sep 2012

Week commencing 27 August: There’s a renewed energy in the Studio this week as everyone’s started returning from their summer breaks. We’ve been out on the streets of Bristol play testing for the wonderful Igfest and have loads of exciting developments and news from our brilliant community of…