Week commencing 19 November:

With less than a month to go until Christmas we’ve all been donning our best winter coats and battling the winter chill on our way into the Studio. The week’s been full of conferences, event planning and some awesome collaborations, read on to find out more...

On Monday Matt Davenport, Jon Dovey and Charlotte Crofts went along to the AHRC Digital Transformation Moot. The Moot (an old English word for a meeting of people where important matters are discussed) aimed to bring together the Arts and Humanities community with other disciplines to explore the possibilities of the Digital Transformations theme for new and exciting ways of working: to hack, to make, to break. They went along to talk about spacialising the archive, and took along a one of the lovely Splash and Ripple Georgian listening devices.

Verity has been busy planning the Studio’s part in Digital Bristol Week. Digital Bristol Week is a week of free events, networking and knowledge exchange for the creative industries taking place between 28 Jan - 1 Feb. It is a BBC Bristol Partnership event and will include talks, workshops and showcases of some of the most exciting digital and creative work going on in the city. The Studio is getting involved in various ways, more info coming soon!

Victoria Forrest has been designing and developing an app to map the heritage along the Thames bank from the Cutty Sark to the Thames barrier. It will combine interviews with local residents, photographs, and paintings from local archive including the National Maritime Museum. There's an exhibition about mapping Greenwich at the Greenwich Heritage Centre opening on 1st December, and you can read an article about it in The Telegraph here. The website is currently in development but keep checking back for up to date news here.  

This week also saw the launch of a Reeboks Classic personalised music video a collaboration from [PIAS] media and Hazel Grian. We don’t want to give too much away but make sure you click here and have a go, it’s brilliant!  

Designer Natasha Lawless has been in the studio, working with Joanie Lemercier from world-renowned projection experts AntiVJ. They have been developing a beautiful animated wallpaper installation for an empty shop front in Bristol. The Christmassy mapped projections are located in The Arcade in Broadmead (in what used to be Starbucks) and can be seen every night from 4pm to 9pm until the end of December.
 
Rik Lander and Hazel Grian have shot their Meerkat video which Tim has put into an android app. He’s looking for people to come and try out this awesome multiphone merkat video so give him and email on: tim@matter2media.com if you want to come see it! Also this week Fevered Sleep’s film It’s the Skin You’re Living In ran on multiple phones using Tim’s software at Tramway in Glasgow, and will be officially launched in London next week – find out more here.

On Thursday and Friday Matt headed to Hello Culture. Hello Culture is a two day conference exploring digital transformation on 22nd – 23rd November 2012. It is a gathering of curious minds, all with a passion for finding innovative solutions to the challenges of today and tomorrow. The conference will be following the theme of transforming culture through digital, educating delegates on ways to change the way organisations  produce, interacts, create and engage with cultural experiences and in doing so they reinforce their long term sustainability.

In the Studio on Friday we were joined by artist Niki Pugh who spoke about her recent projects that investigate interactions between people and place; lumps of clay imparting fragments of people's stories absorbed by the city; bubblewrap creatures with tendencies towards claustrophobia; and waggling waxy pods. We will be posting a write-up on the website shortly, and you can listen to a recording Niki made of the talk here.  

Lastly don’t forget to join us on Friday 7 December when we have a free Lunchtime Talk on Bike Tag. Bike Tag is a system of led lights, proximity sensors and a Smartphone application. Created during The Playable City Sprint by artists Jayoung Bang, Yunjun Lee, Tine Bech and Julian Sykes, it’s “an urban platform that gives cyclists a voice in their city.” Now Julian and Tine are developing Bike Tag to a fully operational system to be premiered in Bristol in the spring. They will talk us through their plans and ideas, and sharing the technical and creative challenges that they face, find out more here.