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Alt-w | Modern Edinburgh Film School
Saturday 25th May 2013, 8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Modern Edinburgh Film School presents an expanded cinema event with a preface by Alex Hetherington. Claire Denis’ masterpiece 'Beau Travail' will screen alongside Bobby Niven’s short film 'ISLAND'. In addition an essay 'Blood and Sand' by Hannah McGill will be read live by the performance and visual artist Catherine Street.
LateLab | Future Play 1
Saturday 6th April 2013, 7 for 7.30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Human ingenuity and playfulness are expressing themselves in a plethora of new platforms – from community gaming to digital arts, randomised music and augmented reality.
Join us for a night of performances by artists working in the realm where digital meets physical. Retro LEDs, motion-generated music & participatory games come together in an exploration of the future of interactive entertainment.
LateLab
23rd March to 7th April 2013, Wed to Sun, 7 for 7.30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Launched at the 2012 Edinburgh International Science Festival, LateLab transforms Inspace into a creative, social and participatory space for adults where they can make, do and interact with art, science and technology.
Come to LateLab to take part in genuine experiments and get hands on with some fascinating stuff. With talks, performances, films, table top science and creative catering, no two LateLabs are ever the same.
Alt-w Fund | Cycle 09
Application Deadline: 5pm, Friday 7th June 2013
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 new media creativity can be.
The fund supports artists 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.
For Cycle 09 we will strategically support projects that can be integrated into Project Ginsberg, a new platform supporting individuals to take control of their mental health, a key part of our Life Designs programme for 2014.
Alt-w | To Dream Again
19th to 24th August 2013, 9pm. £15
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Cellist Peter Gregson’s new work unfolds after a series of interactions between the audience and bespoke data systems. Created especially for this world premiere, these interactions mean that each performance develops in an entirely different way at our lab and subsequently online, where it decays until finally it can no longer be heard.
Quite the matter of life and data.
Heroic Real Estate Otter of the 21st Century
Heroic Real Estate Otter of the 21st Century is the latest collective novel from Brendan Howell's exquisite_code project. The book was written by seven writers at Inspace on the 2nd November 2012. The process delegated by a brutalist-brut software edit machine, known as The Maggot.
The Maggot is a bastard editor. It is a software worm that ruthlessly delegates and mediates the work of a group of writers, simultaneously composing a collective text. This book is the the chewed-up corpse of the corpus that arose, an endless paper record that piled up on the floor.
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LateLab | Atmosphere
Saturday 23rd March 2013, 8.30 for 9pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Logan's Run
To introduce our new strand of research into entertainment & urbanism, Michael Anderson's 1976 film shows the remains of human civilization living a hedonistic lifestyle in a sealed domed city. Set in 2274, this computer-run utopia takes care of all aspects of life, including reproduction.
Citizens understand that in order to maintain the city, they must undergo the fiery ritual of Carousel when they reach Last Day, their 30th birthday, and are given the chance to be reborn. If the Lifeclock crystal in the palm of your hand started to blink, would you try and outrun the Sandmen?
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LateLab | Fieldguide to Space
Monday 11th March 2013, 11am-12pm.
SXSW Interactive, Austin, TX 78701, USA
Sunday 24th March 2013, 7 for 7.30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Most of us dream about space exploration - but haven't yet touched those stars ourselves. Can earth science and other open data connect us physically and personally to the exploration of the universe? Can we adorn and decorate our lives with what we've learned from space?
Tonight we'll look at a variety of real space data and the international, cross-disciplinary collaborations that can discover its secrets. Experience that certain thrill when you know you're connected to something extraordinary like a space station flying overhead.
LateLab | Electric Bookshop #9
Wednesday 27th March 2013, 7 for 7:30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Alt-w | Pressed for Time
The keepers of the Electric Bookshop are creating a publishing time-machine. It will provide unexpected and immersive experiences for intrepid book readers, using a combination of human interaction and artificial intelligence to create custom 'books' that they can take away.
Come along and listen to how old and new media, electronics, programming and traditional craft will enable the machine to be an anachronistic mishmash of time periods from literature, printing and publishing. It's the best open source bedtime story ever.
LateLab | Encounters
Thursday 28th March 2013, 7 for 7.30pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Matter Over Mind?
Think you're in control of your own thoughts, emotions and actions? You may just want to think again. As we continue to unlock the secrets of the subtle interactions between the brain and the body we are discovering that we may not be the conscious decision makers we think we are.
Can your posture affect the way you think? Might the next generation of books read your mind, changing the way they are written to suit your mood? Experiment with Thomas Cochrane’s Mood Organ – a synthesiser which ‘plays’ your emotions.