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Ai Weiwei bike chandelier
The Space and BBC Academy Day, Edinburgh July 25, 2016

23rd August 2016 - The George Hotel, 19-21 George Street
EH2 2PB Edinburgh

CITY OF DRONES from the Barbican and Space commission
Getting to Green Light April 27, 2016

You’ve got an idea. How do you make it great? And how do you share it? How to turn great ideas into compelling propositions.

Image of ballet dancer's shoe as part of Northern Ballet 1984 in The Space logo
We’ve got a new look April 8, 2016

We've been making some changes at The Space. We hope you like them.

Temple Quay bridge by night
Hello Bristol April 8, 2016

What can technology offer the arts? We went to Bristol to explore how to create, capture and distribute great art, digitally.

Screenshot of a bedroom of the character Charlotte from the Pluto 3D Gameworld
Blurring real life and fantasy in the Pluto Gameworld April 1, 2016

Artists Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell update us on the latest developments to their intriguing project.

RioFoneHack project
RioFoneHack – A taste of Brazil and childhood September 9, 2015

Nell Frizzell experiences ZU-UK’s RioFoneHack project and finds push-button phones curiously sentimental. Have you ever walked past a ringing telephone and picked it up? It opened up a whole peck […]

Digital image of Mona Lisa
What does it mean to “buy” digital art? August 6, 2015

How do you buy or sell a piece of digital art? Sam Sedgman explores notions of ownership in a digital age. Six months ago, an artist called Michael Green tried […]

Woman using VR headset with man looking on
Generating empathy through virtual reality July 18, 2015

Increasingly, NGOs, games designers and filmmakers are using virtual reality to build support for social causes. Rachel Segal Hamilton finds out how and asks them what questions this raises… How […]

Lady holding VR headset in Clouds Over Sidra project
UN’s first Oculus 3D film puts you inside a Syrian Refugee camp March 16, 2015

The United Nations has collaborated with filmmaker Chris Milk to make its first virtual reality film. Clouds Over Sidra brings viewers closer to the Syrian conflict by transporting them into […]