First Friday
Please note: This event took place in Feb 2026
First Friday is a monthly social and showcasing event open to anyone. It takes place in the Pervasive Media Studio every First Friday throughout the year except for August and January. As well as the chance to socialise in the Pervasive Media Studio, attendees joining the event will also get to see a selection of work by some of our Studio community.
About the Artists
Robin Thorn is a is a Musician, Programmer and product designer, often focusing on humans interacting with technology, particularly in the realms of audio and accessibility.
Ant Nascè is an Audiovisual Tinkerer and synth enthusiast! Ant is developing the concept of spatial musical instruments, to see how they add another dimension to performance and play. They'll be sharing a prototype of a 24-speaker spatial audio system that costs less than £1000 to make, in the hopes that more artists will be able to afford and showcase spatial works.
Action Hero are Bristol-based artists working across multiple artforms. They are currently making From Ashes, an interactive project involving the creation of 2000 paper models of Bristol's houses and civic buildings. They're in the final phases, come and join this build-a-thon and build a house of your own!
Karno are makers of real world games. As they gear up for their forthcoming Kickstarter campaign the company will be demonstrating Loupe - an AI-powered nature adventure game that turns parks, back gardens and wild places into playful story worlds that reconnect families to nature.
About Pervasive Media Studio
The Pervasive Media Studio hosts an international community of over 200 artists, companies, technologists, and academics exploring experience design and creative technology. It's a space for risk taking and early ideas; for the kind of projects and questions that inhabit the meeting points of art, technology, and society.
The projects span play, robotics, location-based media, food, connected objects, interactive documentary, new forms of performance and more.
We have an open plan studio with a culture of generosity, curiosity, and interruptibility. We believe that by clustering people together from a broad range of backgrounds, with differing skills, experience, and opinions, all of our ideas become better.
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This event is supported by MyWorld.