Lunchtime Talk: An introduction to FEED - live multi-touch resampling

Shirin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:13 +0000

Last Friday, David Gunn, Director of inter-disciplinary creative organization Incidental visited the Studio to introduce us to read more

Invitation - UWE DCRC MA Media Practice and Culture final projects showcase event, 10 February 2012

Jason — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:33:17 +0000

UWE's Digital Cultures Research Centre warmly invites you to an exhibition of the pick of their MA Media Practice and Culture final projects at the Studio this Friday.

PM Studio hosts Global Games Jam

Jason — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:24:20 +0000

This past weekend the Studio played host to the Bristol arm of the Global Games Jam, which saw fifty-two people grouped into teams and challenged to create games in the space of 48 hours.

Mike Bennett

Jason — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:34:55 +0000

Mike Bennett is employed by Bristol City Council as Place Making Director, working on projects to help develop the city's profile and attract investment in the area.

Victoria Forrest

Jason — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:37:38 +0000

Victoria Forrest received a BA in Graphic Design at The University of London and an MA in Communication Art & Design at The Royal College Art.

Lunchtime Talk: Introduction to Plonk — a framework for audio software development

Verity — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:28:28 +0000

Plonk is a new C++ framework for audio software development by Martin Robinson in the Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Plonk was designed to support teaching and research activities at the university but is being made available to the wider community using a permissive open source license.

Red Wasp Design's Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land released today

Jason — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:06:42 +0000

Independent games developers and Studio residents Red Wasp Design's role-playing video game read more

Lunchtime Talk: Tim Kindberg - Precious Cargo: Ferrying Virtual Resources Physically in Crowds

Jason — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:40:04 +0000

Studio resident and founder of mobile and digital media technology consultancy matter 2 media read more

The Beauty of Digital: New technologies, old aesthetics and where the two meet

Verity — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:27:20 +0000

On Wednesday night the Pervasive Media Studio and Creative Times joined forces to present an event looking at how the visual languages of the past intertwine with the new technologies that shape our everyday lives.

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Making the new BBC Micro

Clare — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:35:14 +0000

How can you teach a new generation about robotics and make it fun? Six groups of students from the University of Bristol and the University of West of England have been working on this idea in the S

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Mandy Rose

Jason — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:25 +0000

Mandy Rose is a Senior Research Fellow in the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England with a background as an award-winning TV and interactive producer and experience in broadcasting management and strategy.

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Talk: United Visual Artists

Verity — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:07:38 +0000

We are delighted to present a talk with world-renowned, multi-artform digital practitioners United Visual Artists.

United Visual Artists are an art and design practice creating work at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, live performance, moving image and digital installation. Pushing the boundaries of research, software and engineering with every project, UVA’s work aims above all to be meaningful and engaging. Join Ben Kreukniet and Laura Dennis for an introduction to UVA’s approach, discussion of recent work, and a preview of the studio’s forthcoming projects in Bristol and the South West.

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Live broadcast: An evening with Robert Wilson

Verity — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:43:43 +0000

“1 HAVE YOU BEEN HERE BEFORE”
“2 NO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME”

An evening with Robert Wilson. A Live broadcast to the Pervasive Media Studio from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.

In this exceptional performance, director and artist Robert Wilson invites you into his astonishing aesthetic universe. Combining hundreds of striking images from through his prolific career, Wilson provides an intimate self-portrait of his creative process.

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Lunchtime Talk: The Playable City Sprint

Verity — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:22:49 +0000

This February, the British Council and iShed will bring together artists, producers and technologists from across East Asia and the UK, to develop playful ideas at the intersection art, technology, society and culture. This talk will introduce the practitioners, their experience of collaboratively developing a new work in a week and demo the interventions they have created.

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Lunchtime Talk: Introduction to FEED - live multi-touch resampling

Verity — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:50:20 +0000

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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Creative Times takeover

Verity — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:59:43 +0000

In celebration of the new relationship between CreativeTimes.co.uk and The Pervasive Media Studio, we have taken over their whole website!

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Disco Bandits

Jason — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:01:27 +0000

How can people resist public surveillance?

Arjan Dhupia's Disco Bandits is a story-driven locative game that addresses public surveillance in our daily lives.

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Lunchtime Talk: Lukus Robbins and Mason Robinson - Integrating Pervasive Technologies with Cinematic and Immersive Theatre

Jason — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:14:10 +0000

Lukus Robbins and Mason Robinson are Theatre and Digital Arts students from Dartington College of Arts/University College Falmouth who joined the Studio last year to work on a contextual enquiry project exploring the ways that pervasive technologies can be used to create immersive theatre experiences.

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Arjan Dhupia

Jason — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:51:42 +0000

Arjan Dhupia is a PhD Fellow of Experimental Game Design and Development at the University of Portsmouth. He holds an M.A.

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Lukus Robbins and Mason Robinson

Jason — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:40:50 +0000

Mason Robinson and Lukus Robbins are performance artists from Dartington College of Arts/University College Falmouth.

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Former pervasive media studio office space now available

Verity — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:27:23 +0000

OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE CENTRAL BRISTOL

The Pervasive Media Studio has relocated into the Watershed building. This means that the Leadworks space, which has housed the studio for 4 years is now vacant. The space is a part of the at-Bristol harbourside complex in the heart of Bristol City Centre with excellent access to shops, restaurants, bars and cultural venues.

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Lunchtime Talk: Red Wasp Design - The Making of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land

Jason — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:07:15 +0000

Last week Tomas Rawlings of Studio residents and independent games developers read more

Open Forum: Focus on local positioning systems and spatial interactivity in audio

Verity — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:42:26 +0000

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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Invitation - Artists Talk: Jen Southern in conversation with Laura Sillars, 25 January 2012

Jason — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:43:47 +0000

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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Building Theatre Jukebox Using RFID, QLab and Projection

iamdanw — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:36:51 +0000

Theatre Jukebox is a jukebox that plays stories instead of records.

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Lunchtime Talk: Lukus Robbins and Mason Robinson - Integrating Pervasive Technologies with Cinematic and Immersive Theatre

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Lunchtime Talk: Red Wasp Design - The Making of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land

Open Forum: Focus on local positioning systems and spatial interactivity in audio

Invitation - Artists Talk: Jen Southern in conversation with Laura Sillars, 25 January 2012

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