Stills, 23 Cockburn St, Edinburgh
Saturday 30th August 2008, 11am - 6pm

What does an artist need to produce strong stage photography? The latest expensive camera equipment? Additional light-sources? Assistants? Actors? Set designers? No.... just your eye, a little intuition and any camera will do the rest.

Following the screening of SPAM the Musical at the Edinburgh Art Festival, this workshop will show you how to create your very own tableau vivant using a fine selection of spam emails as the starting point.

www.littlepig.org.uk

Blowup is an interactive environment mainly employed as part of a performative work of the same name.

The live work consists of a video projection in which the video imagery of the performers is manipulated. The performers' live video images are cut up, redistributed and distorted according to a number of algorithms that are responsive to their actions. The software underpinning the work tracks the performers in real-time and is capable of detailed motion data acquisition. This data is employed to manipulate the live imagery and can also be distributed over networks for telematically connected installations and web based artworks. The work can also function as an audience responsive installation.

Choreography by Sue Hawksley, interactive environment by Simon Biggs. Software by Josh Nimoy and Simon Biggs. The performers in the documentation here are Cat Casbon and Sue Hawksley. Produced by articulate animal, copyright 2008

Research and development for Blowup was supported by the Alt-w fund, Dance Base, Edinburgh and New Media Scotland

www.twitter.com/mediascot
1st to 31st Aug 2008

"Military experiment creates intelligent snow. Icy fists smash the armies of the world. The carrot-nosed Emperor wears a coal crown."

New Media Scotland was proud to announce that its third Twitterist-in-Residence was science fiction writer Hannu Rajaniemi. He used his residency to post daily microfiction pieces which were only 140 characters long.

45 Marchmont Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 1 HF
August 2008 to March 2009

New Media Scotland were pleased to host the artwork 'ink' by ~in the fields. Work began retro-fitting the piece during the Edinburgh Art Festival with the artists being the inaugural users of our new Project Space in Marchmont. We were thrilled to be able to present this dazzling new installation.

www.twitter.com/mediascot
1st to 31st July 2008

Get Twitterwurk Set, Go! We were proud to announce that our second Twitter residency was Australian-based artist Netwurker Mez.

"Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Cosic have done for ASCII Art: Turning a great, but naively executed concept into something brilliant, paving the ground for a whole generation of digital artists." Florian Cramer

www.e-flux.com/projects/library
1st August to 9th November 2008

With digital technology and camera phones putting the realms of movie making within everyone's grasp, the pocket movie has come of age. These are short films, often less than a minute in length shot on mobile devices. The results are easy to share, easy to cause a storm and could even end up on the news.

edinburgh.murmur.info
2007-2009, various locations in Leith.

After two years on the streets of Leith, the little green ears had to come down. We've repackaged the content to compliment the original [murmur] website so you can still explore the locale online using Google Street View or download the stories from Last.fm onto your mobile device for a self guided audio exploration of the area.

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
2nd Aug to 13th Sept 2008 / Tues to Sat 11am - 6pm

"Interesting, interactive. Excellent in comparison to other new media exhibitions across Europe"

Alt-w: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture, presents a selection of work from Scottish based artists whose practice has been supported by the Alt-w Fund. These works have been brought together for the first time in an exhibition curated by New Media Scotland in collaboration with CCA.

Simon Biggs & Sue Hawksley / Nicky Bird / Jaygo Bloom / Alison Clifford / Henry Cruickshank / Gregor Dewar & Mark Vernon / Gair Dunlop / Simon Fildes & Katrina McPherson / Beverley Hood / Matt Hulse / Zoe Irvine / Nigel Johnson / Kapwani Kiwanga & Alan Brown / Torsten Lauschmann / Donna Leishman / Mandy McIntosh / Holger Mohaupt / Iain Morrison / Jason Nelson / Dan Norton / Andy Rice & Bill Duncan / Simon Richardson / Chris Rowland / Mel Woods / Simon Yuill