Saturday 28th August 2010, 10pm-7am. £10 | £5
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Our tenth and final Dialogues concert of the 09|10 season at Inspace is designed to offer some respite from the hectic babble of the Edinburgh Festivals. Come in late and relax until the early morning with drones and deep listening from some of most interesting and unusal creators of ambience working today.

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09|10 Alt-w Production Award - David McAllister
www.invisibleknowledge.net

Picture a cross between an Ewok and and oracle and you get a teddy-bear-like hunter-gatherer who can find the answer to any question, that's an Eworical. Behind it's jewel like eyes lies a computer powered belly that envisions how sculpture may communicate in the future.

The four Eworicals together will use IM, VoIP and RSS feeds to power their call centre installation distributing their own particular blend of Star Wars and new age philosophy whilst they question the very fabric of the internet as a gateway to knowledge.

Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Friday 1st October 2010, 7 for 7.30pm

Atmospheric theatres were a type of cinema auditoria built in 1920s and 30s that used elaborate architectural, art and design elements to create a fantastical setting in which to watch a film.

As part of our research into smart spaces and responsive environment we're re-imagining this concept using networks of sensors, algorithmic software and embedded art devices that will respond and interact with the audience giving them the unique ability to mould their own cinema experience.

09|10 Alt-w Production Award - Hickey & Seznec
www.nipht.com | www.theamazingrolo.net

31st July to 21st November 2010, Daily 10am-6pm.
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh EH3 5LR

Hidden under every mushroom, invisible to the naked eye, thousands of spores fall and are blown away by the tiniest current of wind.

Using lasers and computer technology Patrick Hickey & Yann Seznec will make these spores visible and audible, creating an installation as part of the 'From Another Kingdom' exhibition that will reveal the depth and beauty present in fungi.

Free download - Bupp!! for Mac
Free download - Bupp!! for PC

Bupp!! (2009) is a new work commissioned by New Media Scotland. Created by Sound Designer and Composer Jules Rawlinson around themes of emergence, repetition and difference, Bupp!! scatters cropped and chopped vocal fragments onto a grid-based playspace.

Through generative and interventionist gesture, in an act of co-creativity the listener becomes conductor, composer and performer of the piece.

Initiated by Scottish Screen in 2000, the Alt-w Fund is for practitioners based in Scotland to make and develop new artworks, devices and creative applications that challenge the notions of what networked or web-based digital creativity can be.

The fund strongly encourages applicants to explore experimental and interactive practice, make use of technology as both platform and medium, and recognise the changing role that digital culture has in our society.

Our programme supports forms of emergent practice. We seek to innovate and challenge, aesthetically, technically and conceptually. We're excited by projects that blur boundaries, respond to developments in science and technology, and forge new ways ahead for digital culture.