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Friday, 19 September 2008 8:00pm - Sunday, 21 September 2008 5:00pm
Taking place in and around the Harbourside in Bristol from 19th - 21st September, igfest is the first festival in the South West to invite people to rediscover their city through playing games on the street.
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Friday, 31 October 2008 7:30pm
On friday the 31st of October iglab have spooked up some old favorites. Here's a taster of whats on offer:
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 6:30pm
Bristol’s latest Skillswap considering the ins and outs of user experience, usability and accessibility.
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:30am - 4:00pm
Bristol Usability Group and World Usability Day present:
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 7:00pm - 10:00pm
People doing strange things with electricity in the West of England
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 4:30pm - 6:30pm
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Friday, 21 November 2008 7:00pm
We are very pleased to be hosting this academic year’s first interdisciplinary event, bringing together practitioners and theorists from the Art, Design, Media and Culture quarters of our postgraduate community.
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 12:00pm - Monday, 24 November 2008 5:00pm
Narrative/NonNarrative/AntiNarrative Conference @ The Watershed, Bristol
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Thursday, 27 November 2008 6:30pm
Tim Sheppard, local storytelling group member, will be introducing the subject before we get down to the serious k-caf
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 9:00am - Sunday, 14 December 2008 8:00pm
Netsight are designers, developers and strategists who build complete solutions for web projects.
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Yes indeed we’re back with the first of this years iglabs.
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Wednesday, 4 February 2009 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Hi all,
Happy New Year and welcome to 2009. I trust and hope that you are all well and thriving.
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Thursday, 5 February 2009 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Brainstorm: Who can you trust?What role if any does Wikipedia have in quality education? Are good blogs better than bad journalism? Why did myspace work so well?
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm
The first Dorkbot Bristol meeting of this year will be on the 17th February 2009 at the Pervasive Media Studio from at 7pm until 10pm
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009 2:00pm - 5:30pm
As the first in our new series of Studio Sessions, Tom Melamed and B
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Saturday, 21 March 2009 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Dorkbot is taking shape again this month with a Hack a Hat day over at
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Bristol Harbour: An Interactive Experience
Wed 01 - Sun 26 Apr
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Wednesday, 1 April 2009 7:30pm
April fools day this year will see some iglab brand foolishness.
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Friday, 3 April 2009 2:00pm
SO WHAT DOES ‘A POET’ ACTUALLY DO?
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Friday, 17 April 2009 1:00pm
'So what does a Media Artist actually do?' a studio session with Jackie Calderwood
A visual journey through the makings of a media artist. Jackie will endeavour to pull a few of the threads together that make the tapestry of her work to date - from massage and mud to film, families and freedom, via youth arts, UWE and universal callibration.
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 9:30am - 5:00pm
We invite you to come and take part in a Robot workshop session where we shall be discussing how to combine robots and children doing physical challenges, with mscapes
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Friday, 1 May 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Geoffrey Taylor is working with Pervasive media for the next coming weeks involved in the Extend Theatre project with
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Studio Resident Duncan Speakman's piece will be showing as part of Mayfest, Bristol's Festival of contemporary Theatre, on Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 May:
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 8:00pm
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Friday, 15 May 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm
The rule book of web drama has yet to be written.
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Friday, 22 May 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Oliver is ICT Co-ordinator at Watershed, as well as being a freelance all-rounder. He tends to dislike such in-your-face social networking
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Friday, 22 May 2009 4:00pm - 6:00pm
We've been to Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle - and now we're bringing the Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast to glo
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Saturday, 23 May 2009 2:00pm - 5:00pm
You are invited to attend a work in progress performance of Strange Case, a new piece directed by Sally Cookson and devised by the company at Bristol Old Vic.
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Friday, 29 May 2009 10:00am - 7:00pm
Pop-Up Landscapes: Locative Intermedia Project About Survival and Interdependency
Pop-Up Landscapes is initiated and directed by Teresa Dillon (IRE/UK). Phase 1 of the project has been completed in collaboration with lok Arquitectura (PT/ES) and Tuomo Tammenpää (FI).
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Saturday, 30 May 2009 10:00am - 2:00pm
You are invited to attend an ‘extended experience’ of Strange Case, a new piece directed by Sally Cookson and devised by the company at Bristol Old Vic.
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bTWEEN takes place at FACT in Liverpool on the 11th and 12th of June and brings together a host of digital pioneers and thought leaders from TV, advertising,
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 6:30pm - 10:00pm
The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the ever-purposeful Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday June
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 3:00pm - 4:00pm
As part of his Msc. thesis Anneris Tiete was embedded in the HP lab's Pervasive Media Project for 6 months, where he used industrial/interaction design as a research tool to embody the vision of Pervasive Media from an end-user perspective.
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 7:30pm
The interesting games lab celebrates sports as part of Watershed's Let the Games Begin season. We are holding a mini Olympics of street games, interesting sports and mucking about.
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm
To conclude his 6-month technology strategy board-funded feasibility study, Ralph Hoyte will informally present his
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Thursday, 9 July 2009 6:00pm - 9:30pm
Street Art Dealer kicks off its contribution to Bristol’s art scene with a city wide exhibition showcasing
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Friday, 17 July 2009 4:00pm
Mandy Rose - Collab Docs Research in Documentary & Social Media Launch Event Pervasive Media Studio
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Dorkbot - people doing strange things with electricity
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm
PMStudio Resident Duncan Speakman thinks that we don't listen to the world enough. Over the past few months Duncan has been researching portable devices for realtime audio processing.
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Friday, 24 July 2009 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Tweetup West is a meet-up for all on Twitter in the west country.
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 2:00pm - 5:30pm
On Sunday 26th July, 2pm at Sand Point (near Weston super Mare), Strata Collective will be launching the
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Come along to August's Sci-fi themed iglab at Hamilton House and bounce, dodge and run in this month's games of Korean Lazer Ball, Bino Hunt and 3D Space Invaders.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Brrism – It’s Brrizzle for "Social Media"
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Resilience - dealing with an uncertain future
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 4:00pm - 8:00pm
The creative media industries are going through a period of rapid change. The uncertain economic environment has made it harder to find the time and space to dedicate to nurturing new ideas.
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 9:00am - Thursday, 26 November 2009 5:00pm
mscapeFest is back: a two day conference for mediascape, pervasive, locative and interactive media enthusiasts, practitioners and facilitators.
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Monday, 7 December 2009 6:00pm
DIGITAL LOUNGE: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL CONTENT 7 December 2009 | 18:00hrs | Watershed, Bristol
Digital Content will change more in the next seven years than the last 20. Are you ready?
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Monday, 14 December 2009 5:00pm - 7:00pm
On Mon 14 Dec from 5-7pm, the Pervasive Media Studio is hosting a workshop for Facts4Life, a health awareness programme in South Gloucestershire set up by
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Friday, 15 January 2010 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Seth Jackson invites Studio residents to find out more about Indie Mobile and their experience working for and in
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Brrism is a Bristol based, informal Social Media Café run by like-minded people with a shared interest in all things
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Friday, 12 February 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Don't miss this opportunity to find out more about Duncan Speakman, a critically acclaimed theatre practitioner, associate artist at Arnolfini and senior lecturer at the University of the West of E
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 7:00pm
People doing strange things with electricity in the West of England.
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Friday, 19 February 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Andrea Hasselager is joining us within our Graduate/New Talent scheme.
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Monday, 22 February 2010 9:00am - Friday, 26 February 2010 5:00pm
The Essential 360 Storytelling Lab is the most advanced and comprehensive short courses in multi-platform media in the world and will be run by experienced cross-platform dramatists
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 9:00am - Sunday, 28 February 2010 5:00pm
The thirteenth Sonic Acts Festival in Amsterdam is entirely dedicated to the exploration of space in performative and audiovisual art, film, music and architecture.
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 3:47pm
Thought Den combine playfulness, clear communication and the right technology.
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Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:00am - Friday, 5 March 2010 12:00am
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Friday, 12 March 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
We look forward to welcoming Wönky’s Head of Digital Vicky Brophy who has been part of the Studio community from the start.
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Friday, 19 March 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Digital Britain is an initiative designed to stimulate innovation in business models, applications, services and technologies.
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Monday, 22 March 2010 1:30pm
Draw with light inside and outside - …make colourful light graffiti in space.
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Friday, 26 March 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Friday, 26 March 2010 7:00pm - Saturday, 27 March 2010 9:00pm
Watershed, Visual Artist Tine Bech and UWE's Digital Cultures Research Centre invit
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Friday, 2 April 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
This a great chance to catch up with Studio residents AntiVJ who have spent a lot of 2009 extending their international reputation.
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Friday, 9 April 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
iFeatures is a digital film initiative set up by South West Screen and
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Friday, 16 April 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
For this lunchtime talk, Professor Jonathan Dovey will be outlining the plans of the new AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship at the
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Join us in welcoming the exciting artists that will join us for our Artists Residencies, a scheme commissioned by Watershed to support projects at the juncture of art, pervasive technologies and cu
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Friday, 23 April 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
'Digital seeds' is a project born as a reaction to the feeling of being inundated with too much content online.
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Friday, 30 April 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Thought Den graduated from the Studio in summer 2009 and have since then extended their impressive portfolio with projects for the BBC, Jack, Southern Com
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Friday, 7 May 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Established in 2002, DRAW is an independent artist group with a passion for drawing and the drawing process.
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Friday, 14 May 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Pervasive media, and the various forms of computing from which they are derived, stem from a tradition of anticipating future scenarios of technology use.
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 3:00pm - 5:00pm
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Friday, 4 June 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
For his lunchtime talk, Richard Broomhall will present and discuss three works in progress:
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Saturday, 5 June 2010 11:00am - 5:00pm
Symposium convened by Michael Lawrence and Fabian Frenzel, UWE, Bristol
Pervasive Media Studio, Leadworks, Anchor Square, Bristol
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010 9:30am - 2:00pm
Digital tools play a key role in driving innovation in today’s creative industries.
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010 6:30pm
Join us to experience the exciting work produced by the Pervasive Media Studio's resident artists.
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Bristol is fast gaining an International reputation as a hotbed for creative talent and groundbreaking projects.
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Ralph Hoyte (poet), Marc Yeats (contemporary composer & artist) and Phill Phelps (musician and coder) will talk about their Arts Council-funded GPS-triggered contemporary music/poetry fusionsca
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Monday, 28 June 2010 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Media Sandbox and Gloucestershire Media Group are pleased to invite you to attend a mini ideas lab to generate ideas and develop applications for the Pervasive Experiences strand of this year’s Media Sandbox.
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Bristol City Council, Connecting Bristol and Media Sandbox are pleased to invite you to attend an ideas lab to celebrate, explore and develop application
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Saturday, 10 July 2010 12:00pm - Sunday, 11 July 2010 6:30pm
Stories, interactive gadgets, and a rather eccentric Shed-keeper await you… come along and be surprised!
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Friday, 3 September 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
We are currently re-visiting the format of Open Studio Friday and our Lunchtime Talks to promote a deeper engagement with the Studio, our residents and projects.
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Friday, 17 September 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
To mark the re-launch of our Lunchtime Talks and Open Studio Friday, we invite you to an hour of lightning talks by current residents and the Studio team.
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Friday, 24 September 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Katie Day joined the Pervasive Media Studio as Associate Producer of Theatre Sandbox,
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Friday, 8 October 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Living in Bristol since graduating in 1997, Studio-based artist Luke Jerram has grown and developed his practice building an international reputation
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Friday, 15 October 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Most of us are used to GPS and take being able to locate yourself outdoors for granted. But what about indoor positioning? Why is it so much harder and what options are out there?
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Friday, 22 October 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Urban computing is the integration of pervasive applications and services into the public spaces of our cities and towns.
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Friday, 29 October 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
AntiVJ are an international visual label who share a common interest in using light projections on architectural structures, 3D mapping and live painting with p
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Friday, 5 November 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
What is exactly is pervasive gaming? Why do people create and play these games? What makes them fun? What do hipsters and big games have in common?
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Friday, 19 November 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
This session is aimed at anybody interested in our Graduate/New Talent scheme, which supports recent graduates and people starting out in the world of pervasive media
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Friday, 26 November 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Kinneir Dufort are a design and innovation company based in Bristol.
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Friday, 3 December 2010 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Please note that this event consists of two parts – Pervasive Drama The Memory Dealer and a talk by creator Rik Lander
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Friday, 10 December 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Digital is the newest department within Aardman with a mission to take some of the warm and creative imagination that informs Aardman’s film and TV product
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Friday, 17 December 2010 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Professor Jon Dovey and Dr Constance Fleuriot of UWE's
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Friday, 7 January 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Calvium Creative Director and Studio Resident Jo Reid will introduce us to Calvium’s latest project Esca
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Friday, 14 January 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
With a background in psychology, business and design, Rakhi often works in the ‘in-between’ spaces where elements and disciplines need to be brought together to create unique experiences for human interaction.
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Friday, 21 January 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Former Studio residents Mobile Pie are developers of imaginative entertainment for mobile platforms.
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Friday, 28 January 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Mark Jacobs developed some of the first 3D documentary trials for the BBC and currently works for the BBC Academy producing 3D courses for the industry and innovation labs that bridge the editorial
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Friday, 4 February 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Mandy Rose, senior research fellow at UWE’s Digital Cultures Research Centre, is engaged in a practice-
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Friday, 11 February 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Former studio resident Jackie Calderwood is in the second year of a practice-based PhD with the Institute of Crea
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Friday, 18 February 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Friday, 18 February 2011 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011 2:00pm - 4:00pm
‘We Are Forests’ is a new sonic artwork by Duncan Speakman and Émilie Grenier that will use mobile technologies to connect strangers in a fascinating experience.
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Friday, 25 February 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Dr Tom Mitchell, senior lecturer and researcher for Music Systems Engineering at UWE, is currently engaged in a collaborative research
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Friday, 11 March 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
During 5 millions of years of human evolution, the world spoke to us in countless diverse voices rich with meaning.
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Friday, 18 March 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Can computers be contemplative? They interrupt and distract us, throw up swarms of real-time data that obscure our perspective and encourage us to spread our attention across a range of activities.
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Friday, 25 March 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Charlotte Crofts is a Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC) member and UWE senior lecturer in film studies and video production.
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Thursday, 31 March 2011 3:00pm - 5:00pm
We invite you to a discussion event at The Pervasive Media Studio to introduce our 2011 artists in residence, and to spark a conversation around their new work.
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Friday, 1 April 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Elaine Massung has recently completed a PhD at the University of Bristol, investigating visitor reception to location-based interpretation at archaeological and heritage sites.
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Friday, 8 April 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Slingshot are a Bristol-based company designing and producing street and pervasive games.
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Friday, 15 April 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
International visual label AntiVJ are continuously extending their global reputation with ground-breaking works in the areas of projection, sonic and visual performance and stereoscopy/3D. After many months of globe-hopping, we are able to catch up with our residents and invite you to join us.
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Wednesday, 20 April 2011 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Join us for a free and informal discussion with resident artists Sharon Clark, Tom Burton, Laura Kriefman, Tim Bamber and Robin Ray, recently commissioned by Watershed to develop experimental projects at the intersection of art, technology and culture.
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Friday, 6 May 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Since 2003 Joe Lawlor, along with colleague Christine Molloy, has been working on a unique and richly cinematic series of films made in negotiation with local residents and community groups, foregr
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Monday, 9 May 2011 10:00am - 3:00pm
The DCRC are pleased to offer his innovative Systems/Layers event in collaboration with Adam Greenfield.
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Monday, 9 May 2011 6:00pm - 7:30pm
This talk by Adam Greenfield centers around urban experience design, addressing the growing range of connected objects in the urban landscape, from CCTV cameras, sensor-equipped bus stops and netwo
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011 6:30pm - 7:30pm
(optional performance 5.30pm)
In a social environment full of micro-blogging and continuous status updates communicated through text and image, what happens to the emotional weight of the human voice? This event introduces ‘We Are Forests’, a new participatory sound work by Speakman and Grenier that uses everyday mobile technologies to ask, 'What would you whisper into a stranger’s ear'?
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Friday, 13 May 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
This summer Watershed facilitates workshops for older learners (50+) from across Europe to introduce them to the possibilities of digital technologies.
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Friday, 20 May 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Physical interactions with robots as our helpers or co-workers require new strategies in order to make our contact with them safe and intuitive.
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Friday, 3 June 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
There's certainly been a hype around 3D films and television in the last year, with Hollywood studios pouring out movies in 3D and a global push by major consumer electronics manufacturers to put 3
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Wednesday, 8 June 2011 11:48am
Live-stream and collaborative open space discussions with Northern Stage, Newcastle
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Thursday, 9 June 2011 6:30pm - 8:00pm
From smart objects which trigger music to a magical fusion of performance and technology, Watershed's latest artists residencies are focused on using technology to realise great ideas.
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Friday, 10 June 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
We invite you to an hour of enlightening talks by current residents and the Studio team to give you a flavour of what's happening in our world right now.
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Friday, 17 June 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
In November 2009 Watershed, Calvium, Bristol Old Vic,
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Wednesday, 22 June 2011 7:30pm - 9:30pm
The Internet Movie Database is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content with more than 100 million unique visitors per
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Friday, 24 June 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Join us for this Lunchtime Talk to find out about two exciting projects Studio residents are developing with funding from the Technology Strategy Board.
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011 12:30pm - 6:30pm
Live-stream and collaborative open space discussions with Northern Stage, Newcastle
On Wed 29 June, Watershed is partnering with Stronger Together to host a live-stream and offer the opportunity for South West-based cultural organisations to participate in a national conversation on collaboration, sharing and working in partnership.
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Friday, 1 July 2011 1:00pm
Join us for this lunchtime talk to meet Scott Fletcher from Play Nicely and find out more about their experiments with Augmented Reality (AR), specifically the reality behind the augmentation...
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Friday, 8 July 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Join us for a free and informal talk with Stand + Stare Collective, at the close of their Micro-residency at Pervasive Media Studio.
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Friday, 15 July 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Join us for an exclusive presentation of AlphaSphere - the new electronic musical instrument developed by nu desine, as part of their ongoing residency at Per
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Friday, 22 July 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Whether screen-bound or pervasive, playful media applications are only fully realised in the moment of their use.
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Friday, 29 July 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Red Wasp Design have recently joined the Studio under our Graduate and New Talent scheme, and they're working on a single-player 3D game entitled
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Friday, 26 August 2011 1:00pm
The Lunchtime Talk programme will be taking a break during August, but we're already busy lining up exciting speakers for September.
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Friday, 2 September 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
From changing how we look at places to changing the places themselves, Studio resident Tom Bennett of Interactive Places will present this talk
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Friday, 9 September 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Davy and Kristin McGuire have recently joined the Studio to continue work on their beautiful project
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Friday, 16 September 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
TangibleFX is a new music tech startup company aiming to revolutionise musical interaction, production and performance.
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Join artist Jen Southern for a free workshop exploring sound and mobile technology.
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Friday, 23 September 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Sky Orchestra delivers music to sleeping people from the sky. Created by artist Luke Jerram with composition from Dan Jones, the balloons take off at dawn and dusk with speakers attached, each one playing elements of one musical score, creating a massive audio landscape.
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Friday, 30 September 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Every year the Royal Society opens its doors to the public for the Summer Science Exhibition. For this year's exhibition Pete Shadbolt, a Physics PhD student, worked alongside the maths department at the University of Bristol to build a DI multitouch surface, illustrating recent work on quantum graphs and isospectrality.
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Friday, 7 October 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
A start up five years ago, Avaaz is now a 10 million strong global web movement that helps people take action on pressing issues.
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Friday, 14 October 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
"Welcome to a forest that spans time and location, from the temperate north to the tropical south."
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Friday, 21 October 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
To mark the centenary of the birth of influential cultural academic and thinker Marshall McLuhan, Watershed is hosting a programme of discussions, screenings and online publishing exploring his impact and legacy throughout October. As part of the series we present this lunchtime talk with the programme's curator Simon Poulter.
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Friday, 28 October 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Pervasive Media Studio has been situated on Anchor Square, above the Firehouse Rotisserie since 2008, and is now moving into a bigger, exciting space.
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Friday, 4 November 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Squidsoup is an international group of artists, researchers and designers (UK/NO/NZ) working with digital and interactive media experiences.
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Friday, 11 November 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Electronic textiles (e-textiles) and wearable computers offer a unique platform for pervasive media.
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Friday, 18 November 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Mercurial Wrestler joined the Studio in 2010 as part of our Artists Residencies scheme. Whilst here they worked on The Magician's Desk, a project which used pervasive media to recreate the magic and intrigue of Victorian illusions.
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Friday, 25 November 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Geraint Ffrancon joined the Studio in July 2011 to work on his PRS-funded location-aware sound and music project Channel Weather Symmetry.
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Friday, 2 December 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Bristol Vision Institute (BVI) is the home of vision science research in Bristol.
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Friday, 2 December 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
David R. Bull, Professor of Signal Processing and Director of Bristol Vision Institute at University of Bristol will be talking about his work with experts from a range of disciplines.
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Friday, 9 December 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Zoetrap is a spooky Alternate Reality Game (ARG) from Spirit Level Productions that debuted at StoryWorld, the world’s first transmedia entertainment conference in San Francisco over Halloween.
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Friday, 16 December 2011 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Stuart was thrown out of school for reading too much and spent his youth involved in a range of nefarious activities including time as a pitchman, a fake psychic, a 3-card monte thrower, and a stand-up poet.
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Friday, 6 January 2012 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Red Wasp Design are nearing the end of the development of the anticipated game 'Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land'. The game is based on the cult horror RPG, Call of Cthulhu, which is itself based on the writings of H.P.Lovecraft.
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Friday, 13 January 2012 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Mason Robinson and Lukus Robbins are performance artists from Dartington College of Arts/University College Falmouth. As part of their course they have undertaken a Contextual Enquiry Project (CEP) in which they have been researching and developing a narrative exploration through performance and installation, allowing for interaction between device and performers, concentrating mainly on exploring the grey area between physical and virtual realities.
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Researcher and composer, Dom Schlienger will be visiting the Studio on Tuesday to host an open meeting discussing local positioning systems. Join us for a coffee and a chat to share your experiences of the challenges and opportunities afforded by working with locative media.
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Friday, 20 January 2012 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Smart mobs. Flash mobs. Subtle Mobs. Crowdsourcing. Participants in the Arab Spring. These and crowds of other types have become the subject of much interest in recent years. While a visiting professor at ITU Copenhagen for six weeks in October & November, Tim Kindberg started a project on Crowd Computer Interaction. Among the main motivations were the needs of Occupy and other protest movements; plus interest in the extent to which riots and looting were coordinated and documented in the Summer of '11 using mobile phones.
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Join us for an in conversation discussion between artist Jen Southern and Laura Sillars, Director of Site Gallery. This talk will introduce Southern's new work Polyrhythmia, a participatory audio installation developed through Sound and Music's Embedded Residency at Pervasive Media Studio. Join us to experience a live demonstration of the work, learn more about the project and the challenge of using GPS to sonify movement. Supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 6:30pm - 8:00pm
There's no either/or anymore - digital is part of our creative lives, creating new possibilities and opportunities.
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 7:30pm - 9:00pm
There's no either/or anymore - digital is part of our creative lives, creating new possibilities and opportunities.
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Friday, 27 January 2012 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Last year, Mike Bennett took up the role of Bristol's Place Making Director. "Why?", many asked, did this serial entrepreneur who has spent his entire professional life starting and running businesses (e3, Goldbrick House & Bristol Media) want to take up this hugely controversial role and join the public sector?
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Friday, 3 February 2012 1:00pm - 2:00pm
FEED is a multi-touch music app being developed by inter-disciplinary organisation Incidental.
The app enables complex, rich manipulation of a “live feed” of sound, drawn from the inbuilt microphone of an ipad or an audio file loaded into the app, enabling users to create complex real-time compositions from a range of sources, from musical inputs (such as a voice or orchestra) to spoken word or “found sound” on the streets of a city.
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