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Ten things from X Media Lab Bath
There are not many top UK digital and entertainment conferences held outside of London but here was one. X Media Lab at the famous Assembly Rooms (and Roman Baths for previous night reception) brought a collection of top speakers and thinkers from film, TV, music and internet businesses to Bath.
Here are ten things we took from the event...
- Julian Treasure's power and influence of sound - open plan offices lead to 66% reduction in productivity - www.juliantreasure.com
- The very amusing Baratunde Thurston talking about "not just checking in" on social media but creating and "upgrading our own humanity" and of course How to be Black - www.baratunde.com/
- Martyn Ware's 'breathing' tree, Rome Reborn and announcing 3D soundscape London 2012 project for Millennium Bridge - http://illustriouscompany.co.uk/
- The phrase "cultural algorithm, right" from Howard Goldkrand - www.soundlab.org/
- The staggering number of southwest-based digital projects, investors, start-ups, analysts and writers
- Drinking on wobbly Roman paving at Roman Baths while listening to Ed Vaizey and trying to get Bafta videogame winners out of Ian Livingstone - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Livingstone
- Poonacha Machaiah's short film about Bangalore flower market and the mobile phone (he wants to be a director like his Bollywood business partner Shekhar Kapur) - www.qyuki.com/
- Meeting the excellent and very clever Dr JoAnn Kuchera-Morin who talks about the need for art in Science. She "blew the mind" of a BBC Focus journalist
- Wearing 3D glasses to watch Dale Herigstad's vision of 3D projected TV manipulation and control. Weird.
- Drinking in the bar afterwards - talking 80s music with Martha Ladley, English accents with Richard Spiegal and Leah Hoyer and sharing a reflective moment with Martin Dell.
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That was one wonky floor. The Romans may have built great roads but their floors leave a lot to be desired!
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