Media Sandbox - Plymouth Minivation Lab

Super TV group (headed by Korash Sanjideh, www.chewtv.com): how to change the way we see tv considering pervasive technologies and net 3.0 concepts.
Ideas and references:



The activity is part of the workshop:
Media Sandbox - Plymouth Minivation Lab
6pm - 9pm Thursday 20th May 2010.
Room 011, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus.PL4
8AA

Media Sandbox brings together leading technologies, artistic and media talent through a commissioning scheme to support South West companies/organisations to research emerging possibilities in digital media. In 2010, 6 commissions will be awarded.

This event will give you an opportunity to share an idea for a new piece of research. You must be open with your ideas and willing to collaborate with others.

What to expect:The minivation lab will give you a chance to do a quick and dirty pitch of your ideas to the others present. You will then vote on around 6 ideas you want to progress in the session as case studies. Although these ideas will get the chance to be developed in the session they will not be seen by any of the assessing panel until later in the application process. We'll have a technologist on hand to help move things along and to help you challenge what's possible.
We realise a quick pitch might sound a bit scary, but we want to make the session as meaningful and relevant to you and your ideas as we can - and we promise it will be really informal and fun! Don't worry about the pitch just come with your ideas.

What we're after in this project is shared learning, creative collaboration, and brilliant ideas. The lab is designed to support these objectives. Technology is an enabler: it's only as exciting as the story it is telling or the experience it is helping to create. We will create a safe space where you can explore how you can work with pervasive media, who you might work with and where you can find them. We hope the lab will be a positive end in itself as well as aiding you in writing an application for one of the research commissions.

What are we looking for? Media Sandbox is a great opportunity to experiment, explore and take risks within a supported space. We are looking for great creative ideas and people who get excited about treading new ground and sharing their learning with
others.
What is Pervasive Media? Pervasive Media is any experience that uses sensors and mobile/wireless networks to deliver content (film, audio, music, images, a game.) that is sensitive to your situation - which could be where you are, how you feel, or
who you are with.
What does the scheme offer? Setting out to grow an active community of experimentation and learning, the scheme includes a structured programme of commissioning, mentoring, work in progress performances, knowledge exchange and PR/promotion.
Media Sandbox is a scheme that facilitates and encourages an active community who share ideas. We have found that sharing and discussing at an early stage allows feedback into the process and improves projects before they're submitted to the scheme. Often people arrive with one idea and leave with a complete new take on what they're doing. Also, we hope that sharing ideas at this stage will encourage partnerships rather than the stealing.
We do have a statement about confidentiality - perhaps it would be worth
sending out this link and asking people to read it before they attend if
you're receiving lots of queries?

http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk