[Pervasive Media discuss] Media Sandbox commissions announced

[Clare Reddington]

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


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