Well I have had a great time working at the watershed and met some really interesting creative people, which have really opened my digital eyes up to the way that people engage with the stories of the show with Move Over Darling. (I haven’t got digital eyes btw).

As part of the exciting group of artists I met with were

Katy Beele http://wearecaper.com/

We went to a lovely opening at the British Council drank some wine and talked about accessibility access and what defines innovation. Later I ran off to see my lifelong hero Kate Bush sing songs that have shaped my life and millions of others.

Sarah Angliss

http://www.sarahangliss.com/ Sarah’s mind is very playful and we sat in a pub in Brighton and our minds wandered and we came up with ideas of how people could listen to stories that wasn’t just through a standard mobile device.

 

Amy Rose http://www.watershed.co.uk/pmstudio/collaborator/amy-rose 

In a quiet corner of the PM studio Amy reminded me of the importance of a sensory engagement with the technology, that it is really connected with the piece.

http://www.watershed.co.uk/pmstudio/collaborator/amy-rose

Rik Lander, http://www.watershed.co.uk/pmstudio/collaborator/rik-lander

Rik has a beautiful studio in the back of his garden that looks over the whole of the East of Bristol. I fantasized about making work from a similar studio and it reminded me how sometimes to make artwork you need a dedicated quiet space to dream. I had a preview of his digital duke book that you can see at the RWA.

Katherine Jewkes, http://www.katherinejewkes.com/

Katherine my old pal from the 21st Century leadership proharmne and with BAC, we ate jacket potatoes and talked and about the wider future of this project. At the Christmas party I played with her ballballs .

Sarah Ellis, digital producer at the RSC http://www.watershed.co.uk/pmstudio/collaborator/sarah-ellis

I took a day trip to Stratford upon Avon, I watched one of my favourite actresses Eileen Atkins play a Witch. Meeting Sarah and made me clarify that there was more than one outcome for this project. One being more participatory, that could be worldwide and the other are inextricably linked to the show.

Jo Reid at Calvin, http://www.watershed.co.uk/pmstudio/collaborator/josephine-reid

Jo showed me lots of apps where stories are housed and gave me ideas about the user experience of the technology and how people can go down rabbit holes in a digital world that are expansive and exciting.

I applied to develop an online space where older people are able to post up their memories in relationship to sensory triggers: that smell that takes them back, the piece of music that holds a memory, an object that is loaded in a certain time. The online space will be a placeholder for these things, a collection of crowd-sourced text, both spoken and written, with images that relate to the stories. And I have been shortlisted, who knows what will happen next!

And over the next couple of weeks I plan to attempt to load some audio stories into different shoes ask people to listen to the shoe, holding them up to their ear and walkinga round parts of the city that are loaded in memoreries and stories. This will be a test so that I might get to understand how it feels, how it works?