Helen & George

George and Helen were awarded a Graduate Residency at the Studio in 2008 on the strength of their work produced the on the BA Media Practice at the University of West of England, where they specialised in interactive media. During their residency, their research focused on the development of applications that experimented with micro-narratives created from 'found' text drawn from automated Internet searches. The final piece, 'Potential Connections' was showcased as part of the Digital Futures Event at Encounters Film Festival 2008. They continue to collaborate and most recently created a tweed-clad alien robot interviewer called Cornelius in conjunction with Team Rubber and Sustrans.

George

George's interests are wide and varied although they generally revolve around making beautiful things with technology. Recent activities include, writing VJing software in Pure Data, hand building a multi touch surface, working with user generated content using Action Script, PHP and mySQL, getting tangled up with his Arduino cables, creating fractal based motion graphics using VVVV, creating webbots to discover what the world is wishing for and collaborating with London based company Musion to create holographic installations. In his spare time George likes to party hard.

Helen

Helen is a Cross Media Producer and Events Co-ordinator, who in her own words, is happiest when getting things done. Her credits include immersive theatrical events, bio-feedback performance, marketing virals, animations and pervasive games. Whilst still on her degree course she was producing films for the award winning film production company Rubberductions, giving her the vital hands on experience to complement her practice led course. This, coupled with her Graduate Residency, fuelled her interest in participant led multi-disciplinary projects. Subsequently, she has gone on to be Production Manager for the Interesting Games Festival in both 2008 and 2009, with 2010 currently 'under construction'. Most recently Helen has collaborated with Vanessa Bellaar Spruijt on The Outside Inn, for the National Trust. The installation was designed for the Trust's first visit to Glastonbury Festival on its 40th anniversary in 2010. When Helen is relaxing she is usually spending time at home baking cakes or, more often than not, reinstalling windows.