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We are very happy to announce that body>data>space and Robots and Avatars got showcased in Taiwan’s annual Digital and Performing Arts Festival vol. 2, a beautiful publication featuring some of the most innovative digital artists and producers at an international level. The article (in mandarin only) illustrates body>data>space visions and background, especially focusing on two [...]

Explore the Avatar Age! As part of the Digital Shoreditch 2013 Great Digital Exhibition body>data>space presents a showcase version of ‘Visions of Our Communal Dreams’. Join us on-site to explore this beautiful interactive virtual island and fly your avatar (gallery room B34 / basement). You can also join us online and through Twitter @voocd • Instil [...]

Final activities of our EU project Robots and Avatars will take place in May 2013, after 2 years of packed activities, including a fantastically successful touring exhibition from the UK to Slovenia and Romania, inspiring learning experiences and debates with international experts around future worlds of work, identity/representation and ethics. Before that, body>data>space are now [...]

Interesting article from The Economist, on how “Robots are getting more powerful. That need not be bad news for workers.” “WATSON, an IBM supercomputer, spectacularly beat its human rivals in a 2011 edition of “Jeopardy!”, an American quiz show. It has got smarter since then. Its components have shrunk from room-size to briefcase-size; its processing [...]

An inspiring conference “European Audiences: 2020 and beyond”  took place in October 2012, brought together some 800 culture professionals in Brussels, discussing on how to engage more meaningfully with the audiences of today and tomorrow. Organised by the European Commission, the conference presented examples of projects such as Robots and Avatars that have taken their [...]