Wednesday 11th December 2013, 5.30pm.
Appleton Tower, 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE

Prewired, a programming club for budding young hackers, invites you to come along to talks and workshops. Learn new programming skills, hear from industry experts, get tutoring and help with fixing your bugs, or just work on your own projects.

During this workshop Patrick Hickey will demonstrate how vintage alphanumeric LED displays from the 1970s and 80s work. He'll provide an opportunity to play with the electronics and help you learn how to make displays that can communicate with you and the world.

To book a place click here.

16th to 22nd September 2013, daily 10am-6pm.
Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ

As the final part of the Alt-w funded 'Fieldguide to Space' StarLight is a collaboration with Swedish lighting manufacturer Wästberg at the London Design Festival.

In 2009 NASA launched the Kepler space observatory to look at the light from far off stars and interpret their flickering and pulsing to discover habitable planets.

StarLight uses open-data to allow people to replay the light that originated from stars light-years away, giving them a sense of connectedness to those stars.

Thursday 22nd August 2013, 6-9pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

The Academy of Tomorrow's Wonders will launch at our laboratory this October, but as part of Art Late South there's an exclusive preview of the exciting lessons in store, where you can get your hands really dirty with the future.

Be the first to try out some of the technology that will shape all our tomorrows and discover new skills for the future. Bring a galvanised mind, conductive ears and a radioactive imagination. Futurus Futura Futurum.

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2nd to 31st August 2013, Fri-Sat, 12-8pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Edinburgh-based Alan Brown is a visual artist who works with installation, moving image and technology. He creates ingenious examples of device art that deal with the modes and difficulties of human communication.

In our globalised world, where new technology and social media determine much of how we exchange information and talk with each other, Alan Brown explores old media such as morse code through his artisan electronica.

Production Awards

• Patrick Hickey
  DIS-PLAY
• Calum Stirling
  Gadroon Bagette Cartouche
• Chris Helson & Sarah Jackets
  Help Me Obi
• Hannu Rajaniemi & Samuel Halliday
  Insight/Outsight
• Peggy Hughes, Padmini Ray Murray & Claire Stewart
  Pressed for Time
• Hadi Mehrpouya & Robert Powell
  The Thinking Machine
• Matthew Collings & Erik Parr
  The Third Mind

20th & 21st June 2013. £9 (£7.50)
Cineworld, Fountain Park, Dundee Street, EH11 1AF

In May 1951, deaf James Duthie cycled alone from his Scottish fishing village to the Arctic Circle. He published his account of his three-month journey in the book 'I Cycled into the Arctic Circle'.

The book became the inspiration for this unique mixture of documentary, fiction, and playful visual poetry, set to an exceptional musical score. Screenings will be followed by a Q&A with British Sign Language interpretation.

To purchase a ticket click here.

9th August to 8th October 2013, daily 10am-5pm.
National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh

We fully expect the emotion meter of Cybraphon, the autonomous emotional robot band in a box, to go off the scale this August. The artist collective FOUND, which created this veritable diva of a vitrine, has gifted Cybraphon to the nation.

Cybraphon obsessively googles itself every 15 seconds to see how popular it is. The results affect its emotional state which in turn affects its playing style. Twenty-five antique instruments and 60 robotic actuators then play music that FOUND has composed for each emotion.

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.

To book a ticket click here.

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.

FULLY BOOKED

Saturday 10th November 2012, 12 - 1pm. £12
York St Mary's, Castlegate, York YO1 9RN

As part of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Lyndsay Mann has taken the true story of poet Pedro Garfias, briefly exiled in Scotland after the Spanish Civil War, and explores the nuances and dynamics of the obscene, in its literal meaning ‘out of the scene’.

The script is formed from interviews conducted with specialists from several fields. Engaging sculptural installation and hypnotic repetition, the film follows a conversation: silence and language, performance and rhythm, action and memory.

To book a festival day ticket click here.