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10 Aug, 2009

project2891 and others at Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh

Posted by: Brian In: art

project2891

Originally uploaded by sctv
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Inspace Gallery (Inspace, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB).

Found myself in Edinburgh and with a few hours to kill, went wandering through the streets.
First off went to the Forrest Cafe, and from there plotted a route past a few galleries.
Went to the Inspace gallery, which is the new beta space of New Media Scotland. They are putting on a show of their alt-w funded works. It was great to see another instance of Ben Dembroski’s project2891. I had seen the last version at the CCA, Glasgow in April.
A new favourite is the Cybraphon, a strange steam punky artifact that registers his online popularity by making noises, and singing songs. A large dial tells us how happy ‘he’ is,

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Brian Degger is a technologist/artist, he writes, thinks and makes around themes of interactivity, biomimicracy, and collaboration

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project2891 and others at Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh