Posted on Wed 29 Feb 2012
The Digital Cultures Research Centre have launched the Pervasive Media Cookbook website. The Cookbook promotes the emerging field of Pervasive Media by laying out the production processes for 12 innovative experiments. It’s a Hackspace meets Jamie Oliver mash up - a mix of art and engineering,…
Posted on Fri 24 Feb 2012
So today's the day and we have frantically been pulling things together. I think one of the main things that I will take away from the project is that. THERE IS ALWAYS TIME. With this in mind I went down to test some last minute gps tracking systems that we will be using for the project we got…
Posted on Fri 24 Feb 2012
So its thursday a day to go until the end of the project. We are getting closer to the final presentation but for the group due to postage and general complexity of the project it's the first day we have been able to get our hands on things to try out. In some ways the project is very theoretical…
Posted on Fri 24 Feb 2012
This week the British Council and Watershed have brought together twelve leading artists and designers from across East Asia and the UK, for a five-day sprint at Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio around the theme of The Playable City.
Posted on Thu 23 Feb 2012
Don't panic. Before all else, keep a calm head and demeanor. Staying calm will allow you to continue to think clearly and to keep your energy intact. Panicking will only use up energy and cause you to lose the ability to think straight. Moreover, maintaining a calm demeanor will help to reassure…
Posted on Thu 23 Feb 2012
I am going to take alot away from the week sprint. One element for me has been centred around listening. This is both in terms of the the people who I am working with but also the people who have come to talk to us about what they do. For me personally day three had two really interesting speakers.
Posted on Thu 23 Feb 2012
It seems like it's been a very fast 3 days - but so much has happened - in another sense, it seems longer. Our group - which is made up from Yuri Sazuki from Japan, now living in London and Leticia Caceres and Angela Betzien of the Austrialian theatre company Real TV and myself. We have been set the…
Posted on Tue 21 Feb 2012
DAY ONE Over the course of this week we have been tasked by Pervasive Media Studio and British Council to try and respond to what a playable city could be. How might it feel, how it could look, how could it change. To produce the response we have been split into three groups with myself being put…
Posted on Tue 21 Feb 2012
I had many moments throughout the first day that really set off fireworks in my mind. I am anticipating that this expirience will have a kind of "before and after" effect on my practice, my interest in participation, in audiences and my desire for play. This opporutnity is cristalising a…
Posted on Thu 16 Feb 2012
Sam Kinsley is a Research Fellow at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, a department of UWE based in the Studio that studies attention and its economies, connected communities, play (video gaming) and pervasive and participatory media. Sam conducted his PhD research on the topic of future…
