Posted on Fri 11 May 2012
Bambo Soyinka is a multi-platform writer, director and curator, as well as a senior lecturer at UWE. With a background in interactive television she is instinctively interested in engaging audiences with immersive experiments and the idea of creating a fictitious environment that people can…
Posted on Fri 4 May 2012
Week commencing 30 AprAs we creep into May, the energy of the studio has stepped up a good few notches, it is a busy time of year for all, today in particular it seems, as every desk I the studio is occupied and a focused and engaged vibe is in the air. What are we concentrating on?Mercurial…
Posted on Fri 4 May 2012
Tarim has been working with the Pervasive Media Studio since it opened four years ago and has been involved with number of different installation projects and technology platforms that explore embedding playful technology into the world. Tarim describes an installation as a physical thing that…
Posted on Mon 30 Apr 2012
Watershed, University of the West of England and University of Bristol have signed a 5 year partnership agreement to undertake collaborative creative technologies activities through the Pervasive Media Studio including research, innovation, incubation, production and teaching.
Posted on Fri 27 Apr 2012
Week commencing 23rd AprilDrip, Drip, Drop, little April showers, not so much of the little from where we are sitting!So what have we all been up to in the shelter of the studio:We have some lovely new residents Lumiere Digitale and they say they are SO HAPPY to be here. Lumiere Digitale is a…
Posted on Fri 27 Apr 2012
Lunchtime Talk: How to Survive the Future Building international engagement with a transmedia documentary projectNaomi Smyth and her husband Sam have a combined background in live events, theatre, documentary, environmental science and environmental activism, their new collaborative project is…
Posted on Wed 25 Apr 2012
Watershed is pleased to announce an open call for Studio Residencies. We're offering two artists an opportunity to spend supported time at Pervasive Media Studio, to research new projects at the intersection of art, technology and culture. This is a unique opportunity to explore process and practice…
Posted on Fri 20 Apr 2012
I really get to observe all the antics of the Pervasive Media Studio from my desk, just to give you a picture as I scan across the room, Kieron and Tom from Calvium are laughing together, probably at one of Tom’s jokes, Rik Lander is staring intently at his computer screen, the Mercurial Wrestlers…
Posted on Fri 20 Apr 2012
Dan Dixon is a senior lecturer at Bristol University of the West Of England, resident at the Pervasive Media Studio and a member of DCRC Dan’s talk addressed some of the parallels, similarities and differences between pervasive gaming and primitive rituals. He presented a piece of research that…
Posted on Fri 13 Apr 2012
The Easter bunny has disappeared down the rabbit hole and it’s game on in the Studio, as everyone gets their collective head down and prepares for a productive summer. This week lots of weird and wonderful sounds have been drifting around the studio from various apps and instruments, what else has…
