In this Lunchtime talk, Bristol-based Immersive Storyteller, Dominique Vyborna will share all you've ever needed to know about immersive character creation and storytelling. Book now.

In this Lunchtime Talk, Jonny Cotsen will share his artistic journey as a Deaf artist, performer and creative practitioner. Book now.

In this Lunchtime Talk, immersive artist and researcher Tosin Olufon shares the messy, joyful and sometimes ridiculous process of turning a folktale into an interactive experience. Book now.

In this Lunchtime Talk, Writer, Director and Access Consultant Jane Gauntlett discusses her most recent work, Legacy, and her experience dealing with burn-out and discrimination - and how her journey’...

A brilliant opportunity for six creatives who work with creative technology to spend a total of fifteen days spread over a period of nine weeks in a micro-residency at the Bristol Digital Futures Institute’s Reality Emulator.

In this Lunchtime Talk, Kate Sim-Read will explore how data can be stored and distributed, even in places with no buildings or power, to distribute crucial information to people living in unstable situations.

In this Lunchtime Talk, multimedia artist Sister Sylvester will explore the possibilities of working across artist books and essay films to create communal artistic experiences.

Four artists from our incredible Pervasive Media Studio community share works in progress exploring the future of technologies in our lives. Make faces with emotion-sensing software, build new worlds, meet future folk heroes - imagine what digital futures could look like.

In this Lunchtime Talk we'll find out more about Brave Bold Drama's principles and their commitment to lo-fi vintage tech - which might be delivered in character, if you're lucky.

In this session we will be joined by several members of the Watershed team to hear your thoughts, ideas, passions and plans, offer feedback and guidance, and plug you into our wider Pervasive Media St...

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In this Lunchtime Talk, Dr. Max Haiven will explore how games have shaped 21st century capitalism and how social movements are using games to fight back.

We are proud to be publishing our new report, Nurturing Creative Futures today, which shares the ways in which Watershed supports research and development – the values we are driven by, the methods we...

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Join us for a celebration with hot food, games, and a chance to see The Everyworld as we mark the end of a year of making, experiencing and sharing ideas of Home.

In this Lunchtime Talk, Mark Osborne will share his work running Not-Yet-Invented, a series of workshops that explore Computational Media.

Watershed and Pervasive Media Studio are delighted to announce the four UK-based creative practitioners for our Winter Residencies Programme.

In this talk, artist and researcher Lara Luna-Bartley and sociologist and performer Rhiannon Craft will discuss Laundry Justice, a co-produced trans-disciplinary research project exploring off-grid laundry practices and knowledge with Vehicle Dwellers in Bristol.

In this Lunchtime Talk, Studio Resident and Video Design Director Reuben Armstrong shares the creative process behind his new documentary on blind runner and punk singer Phil Harrison.

In this Lunchtime talk, Mandy Rose will revisit the Video Nation project, with a focus on the Shorts that were the best-known output.

This is an open-call to Bristol-based practitioners with an interest in making art in the public domain that involves some sort of technology.

From the harbourside to Japan’s second city: Watershed is taking cuddly plants, interactive tapestries and sketching robots from Bristol to Osaka, Japan, as part of Playable City Osaka.

This summer holiday, young people aged 8–14 and their grown-ups are invited to join artist Ant Nasce for Intergalactic Message in a Bottle - a creative tech workshop inspired by our Summer in the Star...

This summer holiday, young people aged 8–14 and their grown-ups are invited to join artist Ant Nasce for Intergalactic Message in a Bottle - a creative tech workshop inspired by our Summer in the Star...

Do you like making things with your hands? Apply now for our Make Shift Camp 2025.  Join us for a five-day creative camp Mon 18 - Fri 22 Aug for Bristol-based people aged 18–30, from working class bac...

In this Lunchtime Talk, PM Studio Resident Tim Kindberg will examine AI critically in the light of nature as both a point of comparison and a context in which AI is embedded.

In this Lunchtime Talk, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi will introduce their current work exploring how awe-experiences materialise in immersive art, and how they can be extended towards collective transformation.

In this Lunchtime Talk we will hear from pianist and composer Sarah Nicolls, who will share her experiences in interactive electronic performance, and her processes of re-imagining the configuration o...

A year of making, experiencing and sharing ideas of home.

First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone. This May's edition is a collaboration with Diverse Artists Network (DAN), who are a development agency for diversity in the arts and are hosting ...