First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone. It takes place in the Pervasive Media Studio every First Friday throughout the year except for August and January.

November Event

First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone that takes place in the Pervasive Media Studio every Friday. As well as the chance to socialise in the Studio, attendees joining the event will also get to see a selection of work by some of our Studio community.

At this First Friday, you'll be able to check out the following:

• Alternative Technologies: A Just Transition, which was a workshop series run by Watershed and supported by Dr Erinma Ochu’s work onCommunity for Engaging Environments, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.
• Immersive Arts, which is a brand new funding and support programme for UK-based artists offering £3.6 million of funding designed to help them develop their art by using immersive technologies.
• Hermaphrogenesis, which an art installation that combines audience participation with AI by Marcin Gawin.
• Entangled Instruments, which are a series of mutually playable digital musical instruments by Steve Symons.

About Pervasive Media Studio

The Pervasive Media Studio hosts an international community of over 200 artists, companies, technologists, and academics exploring experience design and creative technology. We are a space for risk taking and early ideas; for the kind of projects and questions that inhabit the meeting points of art, technology, and society.

Our projects span play, robotics, location-based media, food, connected objects, interactive documentary, new forms of performance and more.

We have an open plan studio with a culture of generosity, curiosity, and interruptibility. We believe that by clustering people together from a broad range of backgrounds, with differing skills, experience, and opinions, all of our ideas become better.

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This event is supported by MyWorld.