Happenstance: Last week's lunchtime talk
Posted on Fri 29 Jun 2012
Kevin Walker and Linda Sandvik have been resident at Spike Island over the last few months as part of a series of residencies in the Happenstance project.
Weekly blog - week commencing 18 June
Posted on Tue 26 Jun 2012
Another busy week at the Studio, and unfortunately it was Becky's last one with us. We recently put a call-out for a new full time assistant to man the desk, promote the work of our residents and generally keep us on the straight and narrow. Until the recruitment logistics are neatly taken care of…
Lunchtime Talk: Colour trend visualisation
Posted on Thu 21 Jun 2012
Arthur Buxton studied illustration at UWE and now works as a print technician in the digital print area of UWE and is an artist in residence at Centre of Fine Print Research (CFPR)Arthur composes visualisations of colours trends using open source sampling tools that create a new way of looking at…
Weekly Blog - Week commencing 11 June
Posted on Mon 18 Jun 2012
Week Commencing 11 June It’s over a week since Watershed’s 30th Birthday, but the beat goes on at the Pervasive Media Studio. We’ve just about recovered from the celebration and have all been getting our teeth stuck into new or ongoing other projects. Read more to find out exactly what, when,…
Lunchtime Talk: Into Africa
Posted on Mon 18 Jun 2012
Studio resident Tim Kindberg returned from his trip to Africa on 3rd April and this talk is his first attempt to unravel his experience and what he learnt. Tim spent his time in the African cities of Accra and Nairobi. This trip began as a personal venture, Tim wanted to find partners to get…
Lunchtime talk: Accelerometer madness
Posted on Fri 15 Jun 2012
Dan Newton and Lee Arromba are studio residents and collaborators of Tangible FX who create interesting and useful controls for musically inspired people. Their current iPhone app the iMoov is a Midi controller that allows free axis of movement that the user can control using any sort of parameters…
Weekly Blog - Week commencing 4 June
Posted on Wed 13 Jun 2012
Week Commencing 4 JuneWowzers, it’s the shortest week of the year but the busiest at The Pervasive Media Studio, we have been celebrating Watershed’s 30th Birthday and the whole building has been buzzing with celebrative activity. The studio threw open it’s doors for an open studio and we were…
Watershed 30th Birthday - Open Studio
Posted on Wed 6 Jun 2012
Jun 7 2012, 12 - 5pmWe are throwing open the doors to the Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed’s creative technology research space. We bring together a vibrant community of artists, technologists and academics to collaborate on research into the future of mobile and wireless media. We would like to…
Weekly Blog - Week Commencing 28 May
Posted on Fri 1 Jun 2012
Week Commencing 28 MayYippee, summer in finally here and it feels well over a few weeks since we were faced with endless rain clouds! I’m back at my desk at the Studio as my avid readers will be delighted to hear and life in the studio is fully sun charged, as this week’s activity reveals.Party…
Weekly blog - Week commencing 21 May
Posted on Mon 28 May 2012
It’s been a swelteringly hot week here at the Studio, not that we would ever complain about that. With ice cream within walking distance and the Watershed’s summer specials we’ve been keeping our cool. Although the blue air-conditioning socks that adorn the Studio’s ceiling might have helped…