Design Informatics at the 2024 Science Festival
Presenting a programme of exhibitions and events by designers, artists, students and researchers exploring AI, technology, data and ethics.
We are delighted to announce that for the 2024 Edinburgh Science Festival the Institute for Design Informatics will present a series of exhibitions and events at Inspace, Summerhall and at various venues across the City of Edinburgh
Designing Data Humans exhibition features the work of Design Informatics MSc/MA students presenting a series of playful prototypes which examine and question our relationships to data technologies.
The BOX interactive installation by Dr Fiona Smith, Creator in Residence at Fraunhofer MEVIS, explores the practical and ethical implications of integrating AI technology into healthcare accompanied by events that open up the creative process.
Creative Informatics presents a programme of exhibitions and events culminating their five year programme and showcasing products, experiences and groundbreaking creative work, accompanied by talks, displays and demos that exploring Creative AI, creative technologies and on-screen innovation.
Morality Calculus exhibition is a bioart installation by artist Yuning Chen in collaboration with biologist Dr.Elise Cachat that questions how we calculate the moral status of living organisms.
About the Programme
Designing Data Humans
View the works on display that try to help us to understand what it means to be human in a digital world and explore ideas addressing sustainable practices at the intersection of data and design, culture and society.
Dates
30-31 Mar 2024
10am-5pm daily
Inspace gallery
1 Crichton St,
Newington,
Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Read more: https://inspace.ed.ac.uk/designing-data-humans
The BOX
Come explore the ‘black box’ aspect of AI technology in the context of digital medicine and journey into the internal and invisible workings of AI systems through the artwork and the associated events.
Dates
6-19 Apr 2024
10am-5pm daily
Inspace gallery
1 Crichton St,
Newington,
Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Read more: https://inspace.ed.ac.uk/the-box
Creative Informatics
Since 2018, Creative Informatics has been supporting individuals and organisations working in the creative industries in Edinburgh and South East Scotland to do inspiring things with data and digital technologies. As the innovation programme draws to a close in April 2024, this interactive showcase celebrates the achievements of its creative community.
Dates
30 Mar – 7 Apr 2024
Various times and venues in Edinburgh
Read more: https://creativeinformatics.org/news/
Morality Calculus
Visit this installation to enter a dialogue with work which aims to provoke discussion on the moral dimension of the part-based analogy prevalent in synthetic biology: if living organisms are seen as mechanical vessels containing functional genetic legos, how do we ‘calculate’ the moral status of a yeast-human cell hybrid?
Dates
31 Mar–26 May 2024
11am – 5pm
Summerhall
1 Summerhall, Newington,
Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Read more: https://www.designinformatics.org/event/morality-calculus