Inspace

Up Next at Inspace 📢

We are delighted to announce the upcoming programme of exhibitions, events and performances kicking off 2026 showcasing different collaborations spanning creative practice and research and exploring AI, technology and data through immersive and interactive photography, installation and performance.

Felicity Hammond’s END-OF-LIFE-SERVICE by in collaboration with AND is an experimental and playful event in the form of a funeral procession and an early evening wake where you are encouraged to explore the challenges of AI, and to create and share your eulogies to it.

created by .sumlacs, invites you to consider incremental effect with regards to environmental concerns, locally and globally, through reflection on natural methods of connection, communication and movement.


Ecstatic Visions a live album concert performance by soprano Stephanie Lamprea and electronic musician Alistair MacDonald, presents a curated exploration of feminine vocality, technology, and creation myths, featuring video art by .asta Oana Stanciu and creative captions by Lamprea.


Details of this year’s featured exhibitions will be announced next year, so be sure to check back in February for more info!



Upcoming Programme Dates:
📅 Thurs 29 Jan 2026 | END-OF-LIFE-SERVICE
📅 9-22 Feb 2026 | Right to Roam
📅 Fri 27 Feb 2026 | Ecstatic Visions: Live Concert
📅 4-19 Apr 2026 | Edinburgh Science Festival

📍 Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
🔗 go to link in Bio to read more

Inspace is run by the Institute for based at the and at the . Our programme unlocks digital technologies, tools and data and explores their role in society through a creative lens.

We are delighted to launch Digital Ghosts exhibition this week as part of the ✨ Festival of Science Science✨ and ✨✨, celebrating humanities research.

For this week and weekend only, visit the exhibition to experience the main centerpiece of the exhibition, a durational artwork that visualizes the life and death of websites through the exposure of cyanotype prints to light. Over the course of this week, this 120-hour durational artwork will gradually be revealed. Come along to Inspace this weekend to see this work in process before the cured prints are revealed next week.

Digital Ghosts is the outcome of an interdisciplinary project led by Dr Andrea Kocsis , presents students’ work alongside a commissioned centerpiece by multimedia artist Dorsey Kaufmann , and data visualization developer , inviting you to go on a reflective journey to explore real web archive data and question what’s preserved, what’s lost, and who decides what’s worth remembering?

Links for all programming in Bio
➡️ 10:00-17:00 Daily, 5-16 Nov (closed Mon/Tues) | Digital Ghosts Exhibition
➡️ 13:00-14:30, Thurs 6 Nov | Digital Ghosts – Visualising Presence and Absence in Scotland’s Web Archives Workshop with

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We are excited to share that next week we will open Digital Ghosts, as part of the ✨ Festival of Science Science✨ and ✨✨, celebrating humanities research and inviting you to step into the forgotten corners of the internet.

Come along to this exhibition to see how the artists and students involved have transformed real web archive data into playful, thought-provoking artworks. From vanished websites to fading digital traces, this exhibition invites you to reflect on what’s preserved, what’s lost, and what that reveals about our identities and values.

This exhibition is the outcome of an interdisciplinary project led by Dr Andrea Kocsis , presenting students’ work alongside a commissioned centerpiece by multimedia artist Dorsey Kaufmann , and data visualization developer , inviting you to go on a reflective journey to explore real web archive data and question who decides what’s worth remembering?

Programme details:
→ 10:00-17:00 Daily, 5-16 Nov (closed Mon/Tues) | Digital Ghosts Exhibition

→ 18:00-20:00, Thurs 6 Nov | Digital Ghosts – Exhibition Late and Panel Discussion with & guests

→ 13:00-14:30, Thurs 6 Nov | Digital Ghosts – Visualising Presence and Absence in Scotland’s Web Archives Workshop with

Inspace is run by based at the and at the

The count down has come to an end!

Join us tomorrow and across this weekend to immerse yourself in the interactive mirror-world, created by Jiarong Yu , through experimental platform , a softly responsive, ambient environment, where human and AI become entangled.

About I & AI: Mirror
After decades of AI cycles—hype, collapse, resurgence—we find ourselves in a new emotional terrain: not one of domination or replacement, but of resonance. I & AI: Mirror (Co-Authoring Identity in the Mirror Realm) is an interactive mirror-world where audiences and AI observe, reflect, and shape one another.

Immersive Installation
📅 Fri-Sun 24-26 Oct 2025
⏰ 10:00-17:00 daily
📍 Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
🔗 link in bio

I & AI: Mirror Performance
I & AI: Mirror performance is a real time live collaboration with AI, featuring, audio-visual performer Jiarong Yu, and dance performers Zhiyi Zhang (AI-dentity) and Dengdema Se (I-dentity), embodying this growing relational “I”dentity and “AI”dentity, visualising and interpreting I & AI Mirror evolving immersive installation.

📅 Fri 24th Oct 2025
⏰ 18:00 – 20:30
📍 Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
🎟️ Free/Ticketed - link in bio

This project is led by Jiarong Yu, and developed through Co-STEAM, an experimental platform founded by Jiarong to explore human–human–AI cocreativity and transdisciplinary embodied learning across Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM). It is supported by , , the , Co-STEAM, the Institute for Design Informatics, and Inspace.

Image Credit: View of Inspace City Screens from Potterrow in Edinburgh

We are delighted to announce I & AI: Mirror, performance and prototype immersive installation, which will be showcased at next week and for one weekend only!

About I & AI: Mirror
After decades of AI cycles—hype, collapse, resurgence—we find ourselves in a new emotional terrain: not one of domination or replacement, but of resonance. I & AI: Mirror (Co-Authoring Identity in the Mirror Realm) is an interactive mirror-world where audiences and AI observe, reflect, and shape one another.

Come along to Inspace next weekend to bathe in the interactive mirror-world, created by Jiarong Yu , through experimental platform , a softly responsive, ambient environment, where human becomes entangled in the “AI”dentity, questioning if it is possible to meaningfully co-author with AI.


Immersive Installation
📅 Fri-Sun 24-26 Oct 2025
⏰ 10:00-17:00 daily
📍 Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
🔗 link in bio

I & AI: Mirror Performance
I & AI: Mirror performance is a real time live collaboration with AI, featuring, audio-visual performer Jiarong Yu, and dance performers Zhiyi Zhang (AI-dentity) and Dengdema Se (I-dentity), embodying this growing relational “I”dentity and “AI”dentity, visualising and interpreting I & AI Mirror evolving immersive installation.

📅 Fri 24th Oct 2025
⏰ 18:00 – 20:30
📍 Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
🎟️ Free/Ticketed - link in bio

This project is led by Jiarong Yu, and developed through Co-STEAM, an experimental platform founded by Jiarong to explore human–human–AI cocreativity and transdisciplinary embodied learning across Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM). It is supported by , , the , Co-STEAM, the Institute for Design Informatics, and Inspace.

Image Credit: courtesy of Jiarong Yu

Join us tomorrow, Sunday 28th September, for and 2025 to find out more about what we do in , part of the and at

On the day you will be able to meet some of our fantastic researchers including Caitlin E McDonald, Inge Panneels , Melody Wang, Kimberley Paradis and Dr Shama Rahman .

We are also again collaborating with Bayes Centre to host guided tours across the morning and early afternoon, and you’ll also have the opportunity to explore the beautiful modern architecture of both the Bayes Centre and Inspace, and hear about how we are helping imagine new futures through people-centred approaches to the possibilities of data, AI and new technology.

Click on the links in our bio to find out more about our special pop-up Doors Open Day research exhibition in Inspace

Image credits:
1: Edinburgh Doors Open Day 2025 and Explorathon 2025 logos
2. Photo documentation from Speaking Towards One Another performance at Inspace, photographer
3: Picture Your Poisons by Caitlin McDonald and Inge Panneels
4: Can AI Represent Care by Melody Wang
5: LLooM: Weaving Stories of AI by Kimberley Paradis
6. Flow by NeuroCreate courtesy of Dr Shama Rahman

We are delighted to announce the upcoming series of exhibitions and events taking place over the coming months, promising to bring you an inspiring fusion of , , and .

Kicking off with our pop-up exhibition for ✨Edinburgh Doors Open Day✨ and ✨Explorathon✨ 2025, we will be joined by students and researchers who will present several visual and interactive displays. Come along to gain insights, reflect and share your own stories with Caitlin McDonald Melody Wang, , and Kimberley Paradis.

I & AI: Mirror, performance and immersive installation invites you bathe in the interactive mirror-world, created by Jirong Yu , through experimental platform , a softly responsive, ambient environment, where human becomes entangled in the “AI”dentity, questioning if it is possible to meaningfully co-author with AI.

Digital Ghosts, part of the ✨ Festival of Science Science✨ and ✨✨, celebrating humanities research, the outcome of an interdisciplinary project led by Dr Andrea Kocsis , presents students’ work alongside a commissioned centerpiece by multimedia artist Dorsey Kaufmann , and data visualization developer , inviting you to go on a reflective journey to explore real web archive data and question what’s preserved, what’s lost, and who decides what’s worth remembering?

Links for all programming in Bio
→ 10:15-13:15, Sun 28 Sept Edinburgh Doors Open Day/Explorathon Tours with Bayes Centre
→ 10:00-14:00, Sun 28 Sept Where architectural heritage meets technology driven futures Pop-Up Exhibition
→ 18:00-20:30, Fri 24 Oct, 2025 | I & AI: Mirror Performance
→ 10:00-17:00 Daily, 24-26 Oct | I & AI: Mirror Exhibition
→ 10:00-17:00 Daily, 5-16 Nov (closed Mon/Tues) | Digital Ghosts Exhibition
→ 18:00-20:00, Thurs 6 Nov | Digital Ghosts – Exhibition Late and Panel Discussion with & guests
→ 13:00-14:30, Thurs 6 Nov | Digital Ghosts – Visualising Presence and Absence in Scotland’s Web Archives Workshop with

We are delighted to announce the upcoming series of exhibitions and events taking place over the coming months, promising to bring you an inspiring fusion of , , and .

Kicking off with our pop-up exhibition for ✨Edinburgh Doors Open Day✨ and ✨Explorathon✨ 2025, we will be joined by students and researchers who will present several visual and interactive displays. Come along to gain insights, reflect and share your own stories with Caitlin McDonald Melody Wang, , and Kimberley Paradis.

I & AI: Mirror, performance and immersive installation invites you bathe in the interactive mirror-world, created by Jiarong Yu , through experimental platform , a softly responsive, ambient environment, where human becomes entangled in the “AI”dentity, questioning if it is possible to meaningfully co-author with AI.

Digital Ghosts, part of the ✨ Festival of Science Science✨ and ✨✨, celebrating humanities research, the outcome of an interdisciplinary project led by Dr Andrea Kocsis , presents students’ work alongside a commissioned centerpiece by multimedia artist Dorsey Kaufmann , and data visualization developer , inviting you to go on a reflective journey to explore real web archive data and question what’s preserved, what’s lost, and who decides what’s worth remembering?

Links for all programming in Bio
→ 10:00-14:00, Sun 28 Sept Edinburgh Doors Open Day/Explorathon
→ 18:00-20:30, Fri 24 Oct, 2025 | I & AI: Mirror Performance
→ 10:00-17:00 Daily, 24-26 Oct | I & AI: Mirror Exhibition
→ 10:00-17:00 Daily, 5-16 Nov (closed Mon/Tues) | Digital Ghosts Exhibition
→ 18:00-20:00, Thurs 6 Nov | Digital Ghosts – Exhibition Late and Panel Discussion with & guests
→ 13:00-14:30, Thurs 6 Nov | Digital Ghosts – Visualising Presence and Absence in Scotland’s Web Archives Workshop with

Inspace is run by based at the and at the

✨Authenticity Unmasked: Artist Spotlight

We are delighted to introduce , one of three featured artists for Authenticity Unmasked: Unveiling AI-Driven Realities Through Art exhibition, featuring new work presenting a series of characters embodying AI systems, telling short stories drawing from real world examples of anomalous AI behaviours, including trickster tall tales and meandering jokes about “reward hacking”.

Artist Bio
dmstfctn, (f.k.a Demystification Committee), is a London-based duo formed by Oliver Smith and Francesco Tacchini, working with installation, performance, films, and video games. Their work has focused on opaque systems of technology and power, most recently looking at anomalies in artificial intelligence. dmstfctn often directly involve audiences in their work, inviting them into the ‘demystification’ of systems by replicating and replaying them together, and into their ‘remystification’ by building worlds, characters and myths atop them.

Make sure to visit Informatics Forum this August to see dmstfctn’s work alongside other new Art Commissions by Bridging Responsible AI Divides () funded project CREA-TEC, led by BRAID fellow .moruzzi and provides by aiming to challenge our understanding of authenticity and forming the highlight of the 2025 and .

Exhibition details
📅 7-17 Aug 2025
⏰ 10am – 5pm Daily
📍Informatics Forum

Join the opening reception or the guided tour on the 8th and 14th of August as part of the exhibition programme:
→ 18:00, 8 Aug - Opening Reception
Weekly Exhibition Tours
→ 13:00, 14 Aug - Expert Guided Tour
Links for all programming in Bio

This exhibition is led by CREA-TEC (“Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives”), a research project at the of Edinburgh funded by



Image Credit: dmstfctn, Grokh Tung Tung, 2025

✨Authenticity Unmasked: Artist Spotlight

We are delighted to introduce , one of three featured artists for Authenticity Unmasked: Unveiling AI-Driven Realities Through Art exhibition, featuring new work that explores how artificial intelligence, weather systems, and mapping technologies shape our understanding of territory and power.

Artist Bio
Kinnari Saraiya (b. Bombay, based in London) is an artist, curator, writer and thinker of the colonial present. She works within the gaps in knowledge, the inaccuracies of interpretations, the mistranslations of a text, where myth weaves around a historical narrative forcing the collision of pre-humanist thought and posthumanist desire. Through the recovery and binding of ancient and new tools, resources, and technologies, her work constructs a portal, a time capsule that helps define, find, create, escape, and imagine a fluid future.

Make sure to visit Informatics Forum this August to see Saraiya’s work alongside other new Art Commissions by Bridging Responsible AI Divides () funded project CREA-TEC, led by BRAID fellow .moruzzi and provides by aiming to challenge our understanding of authenticity and forming the highlight of the 2025 and .

Exhibition details
📅 7-17 Aug 2025
⏰ 10am – 5pm Daily
📍Informatics Forum

Join the opening reception or the guided tour on the 8th and 14th of August as part of the exhibition programme:
→ 18:00, 8 Aug - Opening Reception
Weekly Exhibition Tours
→ 13:00, 14 Aug - Expert Guided Tour
Links for all programming in Bio

This exhibition is led by CREA-TEC (“Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives”), a research project at the of Edinburgh funded by



Image Credit: Kinnari Saraiya, The View From Above, 2025

✨Authenticity Unmasked: Artist Spotlight

We are delighted to introduce , one of three featured artists for Authenticity Unmasked: Unveiling AI-Driven Realities Through Art exhibition, featuring new artwork exploring discipline and love in classical music and the disembodied mimicry of generative AI in art and its affective impact.

Artist Bio
Georgia Gardner is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher from Scotland, working with research-driven performance, video, sound, and writing. Georgia’s practice explores embodiment, (dis)obedience, and intersecting forms of reproduction that create a social template for success. This template instigates a rhythm of other-oriented striving and quiets self-conceptions of worthiness. Queering this template that often correlates otherness with failure, Georgia’s practice spends time with our everyday, embodied, and empathetic rebellions.

Make sure to visit Informatics Forum this August to see Gardner’s work alongside other new Art Commissions by Bridging Responsible AI Divides () funded project CREA-TEC, led by BRAID fellow .moruzzi and provides by aiming to challenge our understanding of authenticity and forming the highlight of the 2025 and .

Exhibition details
📅 7-17 Aug 2025
⏰ 10am – 5pm Daily
📍Informatics Forum
Join the opening reception or the guided tour on the 8th and 14th of August as part of the exhibition programme:
→ 18:00, 8 Aug - Opening Reception
Weekly Exhibition Tours
→ 13:00, 14 Aug - Expert Guided Tour
Links for all programming in Bio

This exhibition is led by CREA-TEC (“Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives”), a research project at the of Edinburgh funded by



Image Credit: Georgia Gardner, Mimetic Virtuosity, 2025