MyWorld - Strength in Places
Watershed is excited to be a partner in MyWorld, a project led by the University of Bristol that will celebrate the West of England's reputation as an international trailblazer in creative technology and screen-based media.
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Vanessa Bellaar Spruijt
Vanessa Bellaar Spruijt is currently a producer on the MyWorld programme, a five year programme which will showcase the latest advances in digital production and research.
Jo Lansdowne
Jo is Executive Producer of Pervasive Media Studio; supporting research activity, artist development and the resident community to make brilliant work.
Martin O'Leary
As Studio Community Lead, Martin supports our community of residents in their creative and technical work.
Furaha Asani
Furaha is Watershed's Research Lead, supporting ongoing research across Pervasive Media Studio. Furaha is also a mental health advocate and writer.
Emma Boulton
Watershed producer supporting collaborative R&D programmes including Sandbox and Playable City.
Danielle Rose
Danielle is part of Watershed's team working on MyWorld. She supports R&D through providing opportunities to test prototypes and get feedback on work-in-progress, whilst developing new networks and audiences.
Joseph Wilk
Joseph Wilk is an artist, programmer and live coding performer exploring automative forms of expression that utilise new interfaces to work *with* alternative bodies.
Ben Samuels
Ben is the Artistic Director of Limbik Theatre and was our first Watershed Fellow in Residence in as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme.
Clarice Hilton
Clarice Hilton is a researcher and creative technologist focused on disability centred design in immersive technology.
Shakara Thompson
Shakara, is a Jamaican-born creative based in Bristol. Their practice includes programming and AI, writing and performing spoken word, as well as singing and dancing
Harry Willmott
Harry Willmott is a curious creator and tenacious learner who has cultivated an interdisciplinary Career filled with art, design, technology, research and education.
Helen Brown
Helen Brown is a behavioural scientist and UX design consultant exploring how people experience new forms of 3D content in the metaverse.
Ellie Chadwick
Ellie is a MyWorld fellow and a Studio Resident with her experimental theatre company Sleight of Hand
Amy Rose
Amy makes narrative experiences and founded Anagram in 2013 - an award-winning studio, who make immersive experiences that bring together innovative digital interaction and stories told from real life.
Holly Thomas
Holly is a UK based dance artist, choreographer, performer and creative consultant, with a specialism in inclusive choreography and embodied audio-description for dance and live performance.
Chloe Meineck
Chloe Meineck is a queer artist, co-designer and facilitator focused on understanding peoples lives, investigating themes of care, repair, reconnection and identity. Chloe is a queer community builder and activist.
David Matunda
Web Developer, Digital Artist, Writer as well as a MyWorld's Fellow in residence at Knowle West Media Centre focusing on community tech and participation.
Zoe Robinson
Zoe is a writer, editor, curator and consultant with 14 years’ experience working for purpose-led organisations.
Natalie Hyacinth
Dr Natalie Hyacinth is an academic and artist, creating and thinking about music at the intersection of sound, gender and Black life.
Alison Farina
Neurodivergent theatre practitioner, performer and playwright specialising in Heritage theatre.
Frazer Meakin
Director (Theatre & Film), Movement Director and Educator. MyWorld Fellow: Making The World Differently - "What skills and opportunities do young people need for a career in creative technologies?'
Dr Rosie Poebright
Rosie is a story experience architect, digital artist and real-world game designer with a Doctorate in Audience Participation, who has designed pervasive games and playful happenings since 2007.
Gabrielle Shiner-Hill
Gabby is one of Watershed's Fellows in Residence as part of MyWorld Ideas programme. She will spend ten months at The Studio and Fashion Museum exploring the digitisation of existing fashion assets and applications.
Gary-Martin
Gary-Martin is an artist and designer, and a Creative Producer at pyka - a collective who create objects, structures, and spaces that enable people to explore worlds built with sound.
Produced Moon
Produced Moon are a Creative XR Theatre Lab based in Scotland - they are on the More Than AI Sandbox as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme.
Ayan Cilmi
Ayan Cilmi is a filmmaker, thinker, notetaker, and creative, currently occupied with the themes of surveillance, plastic, climate collapse, and displacement. She has performed her work as part of Haramacy at the Trinity Centre and screened at Conversation & Confinement at The Station. In…
Greg Ryan
Greg is a creative facilitator, composer and multi-instrumentalist. Greg is part of team pyka who are on the More Than AI Sandbox as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme.
Fozia Ismail
Fozia Ismail, scholar, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats, a platform for exploring politics, identity and colonialism through East African food.
Leigh Davies
Leigh Davies is an award-winning Soundtrack Producer, Experience Designer, and co-founder of pyka - a collective who build technological artefacts that enable people to explore the worlds of sound.
Joss Areté
Joss is part of 'Glory Mould' - a project on the More Than AI Sandbox as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme.
Domenica Landin
Domenica is part of 'Creatura Speculatrix' - a project on the More Than AI Sandbox as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme.
Harmeet Chagger-Khan
If you had just one story to tell in this grand theatre of life, what would it be & how would you shape it? Harmeet is fascinated by how stories, games and experiences can unlock the Renaissance qualities within all of us.
Sharon Clark
Sharon is the Creative Director of Raucous, a collaboration of theatre practitioners, writers, filmmakers, composers and creative technologists.
Playfool
Playfool is an art and design unit by Daniel Coppen (UK) and Saki Maruyama (JP). Both graduates from the RCA, their work explores the nature of relationships between society and technology through the medium of play.
Jon Somerscales
Jon is a User Experience Designer researching novel interactions, regenerative materials and speculative futures that could highlight better outcomes for us and the planet through a critical making practice.
Aisha Ali
Aisha is a MyWorld Fellow in residence working on Community Engagement through music & sound tech in collaboration with Old Printworks Arts in Radstock and The Studio in Bath.
Jonah Ling
Jonah is is a MyWorld Fellow in residence focusing on Mixed Reality interaction with Aardman Animations' Virtual Production at Model Scale project.
Hannah Southfield
Hannah is a MyWorld Fellow in residence focusing on using remote puppetry at The Black Laboratory to support communication for people with alternative communication preferences.
Kyle Ramsey
Kyle is one of Watershed's Fellows in Residence as part of MyWorld Ideas programme. He will spend six months at Wounded Buffalo investigating how acoustic technologies can be harnessed to manipulate sound for virtual.MyWorld fuelling the West of England's creative technology sector
Over the next four years Watershed is part of a programme called MyWorld which will showcase pioneering new digital formats and technologies to create innovative experiences across fiction, documentary, games, and live performance.
With a unique set of creative partners and research collaborators MyWorld will present a set of trailblazing augmented, experimental and immersive experiences. Technologies taking centre stage in MyWorld include the latest developments in film and television visual and audio production; volumetric capture, mixed reality, motion capture, virtual production, digital doubles, remote robotics, avatar creation… and much more.
Watershed Open Calls, Test Space and Audience Engagement
At Watershed, you will be able to experience work emerging from MyWorld in accessible, fun ways which might range from augmented and virtual reality to motion capture, remote robotics, avatar creation and so much more. You might come across a new prototype being tested in the Café & Bar, or join a conversation about early-stage research and development, or take part in an immersive bit of programming.
We will also be running a series of Funded Open Calls for small companies, freelancers and sole traders that will showcase and amplify MyWorld work and give more people the chance to experiment with new technologies, create meaningful experiences for audiences, ask questions and test out high-risk ideas.
The opportunities will include:
- Fellowships in Residence and Micro residencies
- Sandbox Commissions
- Human adventures in creative technology: Container Magazine
- R&D you can see
All the ways you can engage with MyWorld will be posted on the Watershed Opportunities page from late Spring/early Summer onwards.
MyWorld aim
Led by the University of Bristol, the aim of MyWorld is to position the South West of the UK as an international trailblazer in screen-based media, forge dynamic collaborations to progress technological innovation, deliver creative excellence, establish and operate state of the art facilities, offer skills training and drive inward investment, raising the region’s profile on the global stage.
Visit the MyWorld website for more information on the project.
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MyWorld is funded through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) ‘Strength in Places fund’.
Main Delivery partners: University of Bristol, University of the West of England, University of Bath, Bath Spa University, Watershed, Digital Catapult, Aardman Animations, Lux Aeterna, Esprit Film and Television, Bristol Old Vic and Opposable Games.
Studio themes
- Interactive Documentary
- Play
- Location and Movement
- Connected Objects
- Performance and Music
- Storytelling
- Cities
- University Research
- Robotics
- Moving Image
- Social Tech
