Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2015
6th May 2015 4.00PM, Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol Next week we are holding a free talk in the Pervasive Media Studio with Hannah Brasier. Hannah is a PhD candidate in the School of Media and Communication, at RMIT University, in Melbourne, Australia. She is also a member of the nonfiction Lab. Her project-based research is developing potential models of online interactive video practice …
Tribeca Film Festival is underway and alongside the traditional programme lies the always impressive Storyscapes and TFI Interactive which combines talks, installations and an interactive playground. To keep up with everything that took place, i’ve put together this Storify featuring top tweets, articles and pictures, as well as links to all the projects featured. When researching for this, the sheer breadth of …
Matt Adams is a co-founder of Blast Theory, an artists’ group making interactive work based in Brighton in the UK. Their latest project Karen is a smartphone app that uses psychological profiling in the background as you interact. Karen is a life coach who is happy to help you work through a few things in your life. However, as you chat …
29th April 2015 6.30PM, Watershed, Bristol We’re pleased to announce that following their installation at Tribeca Storyscapes, Blast Theory’s co-founder Matt Adams will be in Bristol to talk about their latest project Karen. Blast Theory makes games, performances and installations online, on the street and on mobile. Drawing on popular culture, their work often blurs the boundaries between the real and the …
The World Cup 2014 has been played. Germany is world champion. Meanwhile, FIFA chooses a new President as the future World Cups in 2018 in Russia and 2022 in Qatar are causing some controversies. A perfect moment to reflect and zoom in on the stories that happened just outside of the stadiums in three major World Cup cities. The interactive …
By Jaya Mahajan. Originally published on Factual for Asia – republished with permission. One of the most inspiring projects that I came across during the Asian Side of the Doc during February in Xiamen was an upcoming documentary that looked at the lives of migrant workers in China, through their poetry. The subject matter and treatment of the documentary – The Verse of …
Immersing your audience in hyper-real situations, whether within an immersive theatre setting or a virtual reality experience can evoke intense reactions – How do you balance the potential of these projects with the ethics? This was the question Mandy Rose put to panelists Kirsty Jennings (Blast Theory), Rik Lander (U-Soap Media) and Manuel Frutos-Perez (UWE) at the Digital Bristol session: Immersive Ethics – Dream or Nightmare? …
Following their success with interactive documentary Hollow, filmmakers Elaine Sheldon and Sarah Ginsburg are now busy showcasing conversations with other women making their mark in media. The She Does podcast, which is hosted by the pair, looks to go beyond guests’ current career status and “explore each woman’s past to understand how their personality, background and philosophy informs their work. Writers, producers, directors, …
With Sundance hosting 13 Virtual Reality (VR) experiences under its New Frontier’s umbrella at the start of the year and Tribeca Film Festival showcasing projects like The Enemy in their Storyscapes line-up, we turn to a project that has been among the first to experiment with the use of Oculus Rift in a documentary context. CLOUDS, by media artist James George and …
Last year I wrote about an app that was being developed here in the Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol which allows you to record video from multiple phones or tablets at the same time. A few months down the line, and the Nth Screen is now public, on the app store and looking for people to get creative with it. This launch …
Kicked off by Sundance New Frontiers and with the looming release of consumer kits (if they stick with the 2015 release date), I think it’s safe to say we are in the year of VR. This has not gone unnoticed in Bristol, where indie games studio Opposable Games organised South West VR; a conference dedicated to the exploding platform. Whilst the focus was games, …
A year ago iDROPS and myself submitted a proposal to Creative Europe (Media Programme): we wanted to create a series of workshops designed to help professionals to develop their own interactive documentaries. We wanted to create something that would be more like an incubator than an inspirational seminar. Something very hands-on, where you are immersed in a multi-disciplinary environment so …
Following on from the successful Disobedient Objects exhibition, the V&A has worked with the Disobedient Film Company to release an experiential documentary film called London Recruits: the Secret War Against Apartheid. 1960s and 1970s apartheid South Africa saw anti-apartheid leaders like Nelson Mandela jailed or killed for their resistance to a racist regime. African National Congress activists such as Ronnie …
In the early 1980s, director Diego Echeverria captured five stories from the Brooklyn neighbourhood Los Sures, looking to represent the challenges it was facing; drugs, gang violence, crime, abandoned real estate, racial tension, single-parent homes and inadequate local resources. Alongside this portrait of struggle, the film also celebrated the vitality of this largely Puerto Rican and Dominican community. 30 years on from …
Whilst today is the last day to submit interactive projects to Sheffield Doc Fest (Deadline 11pm GMT!) there are plenty of other funds, festivals and development labs that are still open. The following are a few upcoming deadlines: Visible Evidence XXII Extended deadline: Monday 23 February This first call is positioned more for the academics amongst us: Visible Evidence, the international conference on …
