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Director @DCRCUK and resident @PMStudioUK. Artist, writer and publisher. Opinions are all my own. Usually making something.

Joined July 2007
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.@ambientlit has teamed up with @canelo_co to create a mile-long audio walk accompanying Withered Hill, a folk horror novel by @davidmbarnett bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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To celebrate the release of David Barnett's folk horror novel #WitheredHill (out this Thurs), we've partnered with @ambientlit to produce a FREE immersive audio experience called #RoadsToWitheredHill! Dare you venture in? Visit our blog for more info👉 canelo.co/news/2024-09-24-am…
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The Ambient Frame. May 23rd & 24th. Arnolfini. Bristol. UK We think it’s time to talk about the whole field of creative technology and publishing. Register for more information and to be the first to hear about tickets: research.ambientlit.com/inde…
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All of this, 100 percent, about AI.
Living in the age of AI hype makes demands on all of us to come up with smartypants prognostications about how AI is about to change everything forever, and wow, it's pretty amazing, huh? 1/
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Brand new £6m scheme supporting UK artists to engage with immersive tech. Led by @UWEBristol and course leader @veritymcintosh - there couldn't be a better time to join us at UWE to study MA Virtual and Extended Realities. Applications open (see link in bio) but filling fast!
We’re delighted to announce the £6m Immersive Arts consortium, to support UK artists and organisations working in immersive technology. This new scheme will give artists the opportunity to access training, mentoring, specialist facilities and vital funds ukri.org/news/new-funding-su…
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International students are not migrants. They aren’t planning on settling in the U.K., the vast majority return home after their studies. They also contribute nearly £42 billion per annum to the U.K. economy. Take them out of the migration statistics, they don’t belong there.
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Are you our new Research Fellow? Come spend 10 months working alongside us and @PMStudioUK, researching young people & careers in creative tech. wshd.to/fellowshipactionrese…
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Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going to buy a single envelope and his explanation sums up the current state of the world.
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70 years ago tonight, live on BBC TV, The Quatermass Experiment began - the science-fiction thriller that would make the name of Nigel Kneale and influence so much that came after. (For the final episode, he even had a hand in the monster.)
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How do we create a show with a Canadian company remotely? Can audiences in Bristol and Toronto share an experience? What space do we need? How do we integrate the technology? What does a post-pandemic audience want? All explored today @PMStudioUK & online 1pm
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Time is money. If it takes twice as long to do something you earn half as much. This is the brutal fact at the heart of Brexit. Let’s "Brexit" a £12.99 paperback, blow by blow, and see what difference leaving the single market has made.
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Lessons From the Catastrophic Failure of the Metaverse @thenation thenation.com/article/cultur… "The whole thing was bullshit. Far from being worth trillions of dollars, the Metaverse turned out to be worth absolutely bupkus."
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🚨🚨🚨ONE DAY RELOCATION 🚨🚨🚨 Hello everyone. Due to rain and slippery conditions, FOR TODAY (Tuesday, 4th July), How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car will be showcasing at Undershed @wshed ground floor on Bristol's Harbourside, and NOT outside Mshed. Come by and play!
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Miss @tomabba's lunchtime talk last week? Or just want to watch it again? Luckily, it's available on YouTube now! (along with all @PMStudioUK talks - check them out)
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Like many orgs, @wshed is having a challenging time at the moment, and looking for new ways for you to support us. So, by popular demand we have a merch store wshd.to/shop - about £7 from every sale goes straight to us. Most are recycled and they are all organic cotton
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Thread: I work in an arcane field where the job requires specific technical knowledge, built on a ladder of understanding and breakthroughs going back over 100 years. It's not immunology but it's not nothing.
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We will be back next week with @tomabba on the creation of From Bitter Ground, a work of ambient literature, and the exploration of the opportunities present in making immersive work without a stage, voices, or VR. watershed.co.uk/studio/event…
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Looking forward to next week's Lunchtime Talk - @tomabba will share their work on the space between the weird and what we think of as real, composed as a set of artists’ books providing a bridge into an immersive, location-responsive experience🤖🌍 watershed.co.uk/studio/event…
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