From clare.reddington at watershed.co.uk Fri Jan 18 19:21:54 2008 From: clare.reddington at watershed.co.uk (Clare Reddington) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:21:54 +0000 Subject: [Pervasive Media discuss] Media Sandbox commissions announced Message-ID: This is the first of a limited number of email newsletters to the pervasive media discussion list to keep you up to date with progress on the Media Sandbox scheme. If you know someone who might enjoy it, please forward this to them; our aim over the next three months is to share as much of the learning from the pilot schemes as possible. As usual, you can subscribe, unsubscribe etc. at http://lists.mediasandbox.co.uk/listinfo/discuss Contents: 1. The commissioned projects 2. Your input 3. Pervasive Media Studio 1. The commissioned projects We are pleased to announce the list of commissions who will be working on pervasive media projects between now and the end of March. After a lively launch event at the end of November, 28 proposals were entered and the judging panel selected six projects. They are: Ani-Mates | HMC Interactive and Aardman Harmonize | Licorice Film Happy Town | BDH and Plot London Happy Packages | Thought Pie Power To The People | Altern8 Swarm | Simon Evans and Simon Johnson Full project descriptions are available at http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008-commissions. Each of the projects will be updating their own journal regularly on the Media Sandbox website during the scheme. To stay up to date, do visit the website. 2. Your input As well as reading the journals, please add your suggestions and observations. This is not a closed research process and the projects will respond to your comments. We have also set up a tag for delicious, so if you see a useful website, please include the tag 'mediasandbox' (http://del.icio.us/tag/mediasandbox). There is also a flickr group and a youtube channel to add pictures or video (details on the Media Sandbox site). This will help build a body of knowledge from which everyone can benefit. We are holding two more events to which you are all warmly welcome. More information will follow. 3. Pervasive Media Studio iShed has moved to fantastic new office space at Leadworks in Anchor Square. This will be the home of the Pervasive Media Studio, a space in which those interested can come to collaborate, learn and share ideas. The studio will launch formally in the coming months, but if you would like to drop in and look around, please get in touch. The next newsletter will sent in a month, bringing you a digest of the project journals and more news about the events. All the best, Clare and the Media Sandbox team Clare Reddington Producer, iShed, Watershed, Bristol T +44 (0)117 915 7231 / http://www.ished.net / http://www.watershed.co.uk Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mediasandbox.co.uk/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20080118/c9205691/attachment.html From clare.reddington at watershed.co.uk Tue Jan 29 08:49:14 2008 From: clare.reddington at watershed.co.uk (Clare Reddington) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:49:14 +0000 Subject: [Pervasive Media discuss] Iglab In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Media Sandbox participant Simon Johnson has set up iglab, which we thought members of the list might be interested in: What is iglab? Inspired by the games at come out and play http://www.comeoutandplay.org/ and the London games fringe festival http://www.londongamesfringe.com/ iglab is a monthly meeting for people interested in games, especially games that have the ability to sometimes transcend their limits. The Interesting Games Lab offers the opportunity to play some interesting games, meet some interesting people and look at some interesting ideas. Sound interesting? iglab is new very new The first meeting will be on the Tue 12th of Feb, 7pm, at the Pervasive Media Studio, Leadworks, (above Firehouse Rotisserie), Anchor Square, Harbourside Bristol, BS1 5DB. iglab is both a resource for those who would like to develop contemporary games, and an opportunity for us all to gain an insight into contemporary games culture. iglab is open and of potential interest to games developers, artists, social scientists, performers, gamers, to people of all ages and backgrounds. Anyone can submit a game to the lab (see site for details) At the first event there will be: a game from Korea that involves lasers; a game that challenges you to be smarter than an ant; and some playtesting of a social swarm application currently in r+d and not forgetting *FREE* beer provided by South West Screen http://www.swscreen.co.uk For more details on the first event and for the rest of the info about the project have a look at http://iglab.urbanantics.net Feel free to create a login and start using the site. The site will be used to document the project as it develops, sharing rule sets, and insights gained If you want to contact me for more info or because you have a game you want to bring to the lab please do at simon.iglab at urbanantics.net hope to see you all there /simon johnson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mediasandbox.co.uk/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20080129/683bc0c5/attachment.html