Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
3rd to 4th April 2010, 1pm, 4pm & 7pm. £6 | £4

What does it take to get a robot to Bend it like Beckham? Does the future pit the human world cup winners against the android champions league? Let us take you through a fascinating journey that explores the key challenges in creating an Android FC. See the robots in action, pick a winner and go crazy for your team!

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24th October to 12th December 2009, Sunset - Midnight.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

As part of 'An Entangled Bank' at Talbot Rice Gallery and our forthcoming 'Are We Human?' exhibition at Inspace we are presenting a new work by artist Brian Hewitt that has been commissioned as part of the bicentenary celebrations of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'On the Origin of Species'.

Thursday 20th August 2009, 6pm.
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

A hands-on demonstration of the research of two Alt-w awarded artists. Both have explored and developed new forms of wearable technology and combined them with dynamic audio and visual content.

Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

The University of Edinburgh's Inspace is a laboratory that explores the cultural significance of informatics and new media practice. Inspace is home to a joint research partnership between the School of Informatics and New Media Scotland.

Inspace seasonal thematics are chosen from an anonymous open call, with a second open call for collaborators made once each thematic has been chosen. Initially we invite proposals for a thematic for the 2011 spring season (1st April to 30th June).

Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

The University of Edinburgh's Inspace is home to a joint research partnership between the School of Informatics and New Media Scotland.

Inspace is a public engagement facility that explores the cultural significance of informatics and new media practice.

With each passing season, different programme catalysts will be released enabling research, production, education and outreach activity. Watch out for '48 hours' projects.

Hands on dialogue and exchange will unfold through experiments, talks and performances culminating in a quarterly exhibition deploying the latest ideas and tech.

07|08 Alt-w Production Award - floc: skein
www.in-the-fields.org

5th August to 5th September 2009, Wed-Sun, 10am-6pm.
Inspace, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

To describe a system means basically to construct a new one. Visualisations of flocking birds inhabit the sphere, surrounding the centre point. An imaginary winding thread is left in the bird's wake.

The observer, intrigued, approaches and triggers thoughts and poems. But these poems about flight will hide the birds, the very flight – and its own particular poetry. The observer can't change the system – the birds will always come back...

5th August to 5th September 2009, Wed-Sun, 10am-6pm.
Inspace, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Digital culture is pervasive and ever evolving. The Alt-w Fund supports experimentation with new media, as both artistic subject and as creative tool. The focus for 2008/09 was to support projects which dynamically engage audiences beyond the traditional screen.

Alex Hetherington, Benjamin Dembroski, Distance Lab, Emma Tolmie, FOUND, Wendy McMurdo & Paul Holmes, Sarah Kettley, Thomson & Craighead, ~ in the fields.

This exhibition reflects our information-rich world where attention is a commodity. As consumers we filter, as creators we share. In response, we forge new paths. These artists engage with these accelerated times and its dispersed networks of communication.

08|09 Alt-w Production Award - The Skater
www.wendymcmurdo.com

5th August to 5th September 2009, Wed-Sun, 10am-6pm.
Inspace, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Exploring the impact of virtual technology on the lives of the young, Wendy McMurdo's photographic work, and her Alt-w funded collaboration with filmmaker Paul Holmes, study interactivity through the theme of skaters at once real, manipulated and beautifully mimicked.

They are joined by a series of portraits of young gamers at play immersed in a highly mediated world. These poised figures allude to how personal identity is formed in a virtual environment – where fantasy slides into reality and back again, within the looped world of the game.

08|09 Alt-w R&D Award - Emma Tolmie
emmatolmie.wordpress.com

Thursday 20th August 2009, 6pm. FULLY BOOKED
Inspace, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Emma Tolmie has mixed low-tech gadgetry and high-tech imagery to develop a heads-up display and unique digital content that re-imagines the concept of stereoscopic imaging in a retro-futuristic subversion of the experience and aesthetics of 3D film.

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R&D Award - Aeolia
Sarah Kettley

www.sarahkettleydesign.co.uk

This project explores the nature of space and place and will examine the concept of a bodily connection with the land through sketch prototyping of stretch sensors in sculptural textiles.