First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone. These events are somewhere between the last meeting of the week and the first event of your weekend. You might meet an artist or an engineer, a school teacher or a city leader. All are welcome - from inside and outside the city, online or in the Watershed building.

September 2024

Joining in person? Come have a look around Pervasive Media Studio and discover more about some of the work that happens here.

As well as the chance to socialise in the Studio, attendees joining the event will also have the opportunity to see a selection of work by some of our Studio community. This month's First Friday is part of Other Minds, a season of work exploring different kinds of intelligence: animal, mechanical, collective.

Throughout September we're sharing projects that ask what it means to work with minds that are utterly unlike our own, and how AI* can be part of a wider conversation about intelligence, labour, and creativity.

Information about artists sharing work coming soon.

*AI: Afield of computer science that allows machines to perform tasks that previously required human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, and problem-solving.

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This event is supported by MyWorld.

Booking info

There is no need to pre-book. Head to our main bar area, buy a drink if you want to, and then follow directions down to Pervasive Media Studio.

About Pervasive Media Studio

The Pervasive Media Studio hosts an international community of over 150 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 if 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.