Lunchtime Talk: Zoetrap Alternate Reality Game and Story App

Posted on Fri 23 Dec 2011

Multiplatform writer Hannah Wood and Jo Reid, Creative Director of Studio residents Calvium, came to the Studio to tell us about their experience of developing the occult-themed alternate reality game (ARG) Zoetrap for the StoryWorld conference. StoryWorld is the world's first transmedia…

Professor David Bull

Lunchtime Talk: Bristol Vision Institute - Learning From Other Disciplines

Posted on Thu 8 Dec 2011

Last Friday the Studio welcomed Professor David Bull, Director of the Bristol Vision Institute (BVI), who came in to explain the ethos behind his virtual organization and to show us some examples of the types of work that he and his colleagues are engaged in. The BVI was set up in 2007 with the aim…

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openMIC 12: Android and The Internet of Things

Posted on Mon 5 Dec 2011

Last Friday was openMIC 12, a one day event on the impact of cheap Android phones in the Internet of Things. I gave a short talk on the topic, covering mobile phones, internet fridges, robots, geocities, shanzai & kickstarter. I have no written version to post, instead I recommend reading &…

roundness.org

Hello Round World

Posted on Fri 2 Dec 2011

Studio resident Tim Kindberg of matter 2 media recently launched roundness.org, a website for devotees of 'round content': media and things that are either round-framed, viewed in the round, or both.  For example, have you ever visited a camera obscura like the one in Bristol, and stood around it…

Geraint Ffrancon

Lunchtime Talk: Slow Movement and Locative Music Composition

Posted on Fri 2 Dec 2011

UWE MA Media Practice student Geraint Ffrancon joined the Studio earlier this year to work on Channel Weather Symmetry, a locative music composition project funded by the PRS Foundation and others though the Beyond Borders scheme and commissioned by Local Journeys (a Community Interest Company that…


Last Week's Lunchtime Talk: Introducing Squidsoup

Posted on Wed 9 Nov 2011

The Studio's weekly Lunchtime Talks are open to anyone to attend and feature members of the Studio community and invited guests presenting their projects and inviting discussion. Attendance at the talks has been growing steadily over the last few months, so we thought it was time to start…