Join us at Inspace to celebrate the opening of Morphological Murmurations a new multisensory installation engaging audiences kinaesthetically with language, forming this year’s Edinburgh College of Art exhibition highlight for the 2026 Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
EXHIBITION PREVIEW, PERFORMANCE AND PANEL
Join us at Inspace for this preview event to celebrate the opening of Morphological Murmurations a new multisensory installation, engaging audiences kinaesthetically with language, forming this year’s Edinburgh College of Art exhibition highlight for the 2026 Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
This preview event will begin launching a daily performance by Theodore Koterwas, which will run from 12:00 daily throughout the exhibition. This durational performance uses hand written words to translate a live data feed from the installation, reflecting on the embodied nature of language and the hidden labour of AI. This opening live performance will feature Soprano Stephanie Lamprea who has collaborated with Koterwas for this new and expanded version of Morphological Murmurations.
This will be followed by a combined panel discussion, with invited guest speaker and chair Caterina Moruzzi, audience Q&A, and drinks reception. Come along to discover how artists are creatively and critically engaging with artificial intelligence (AI), specifically Large Language Models, through voice, movement and audio-visual technology.
Date: Tues 25 August 2026
Time: 18:00-20:00 | Free/Ticketed
Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB [Fringe Venue 574]
Performers: Theodore Koterwas and Stephanie Lamprea,
Speakers to be announced soon
Artists and Speakers
Theodore Koterwas is an artist, designer and musician is an artist working with data, physical phenomena and the human body to make things resonate. He seeks to draw critical attention to aspects of daily experience that go unnoticed but profoundly impact on how we understand each other, technology and the environment. His multidisciplinary practice produces art installations, performances, museum exhibitions, and software applications for public engagement, creative collaboration, and teaching and learning. His AI-generated interactive video installation “The Nth Wave” was shortlisted for the 2021 Lumen Prize for Art and Technology, and his voice-cloning installation “all the boys ate a fish” was a finalist in 2024.
His practice-based research and teaching explores multi-sensory physical interactions with artificial intelligence—examining how these interactions shape our self-understanding and our ability to perceive, empathise, and communicate with “others,” both human and non-human. This work encompasses distributed cognition, non-rational ways of experiencing and knowing, the uncanny, and agency and creativity in non-humans.
Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, recitalist, curator, composer, and improviser, specializing in contemporary-classical repertoire. Trained as an operatic coloratura, Stephanie uses her voice as a mechanism of avant-garde performance art, creating “maniacal shifts of vocal production and character… like an icepick through the skull” (composer Jason Eckardt). She has been praised by Opera News Magazine for “her iconoclasm and fearless commitment to new sounds” and for her “impressive display of extended vocal techniques, in the honorable tradition of such forward-looking artists as Bethany Beardslee, Cathy Berberian and Joan La Barbara.”
She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium (New York City), Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland, Kings Place (London), Southbank Centre (London), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the National Concert Hall (Dublin), the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), the Hidden Door Festival (Edinburgh), and the Casa da Música (Porto). She has collaborated with leading new music ensembles and bands including the Riot Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, the City of London Sinfonia, Sō Percussion, and Post Coal Prom Queen.
Caterina Moruzzi is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where her research sits at the intersection of philosophy, creativity, and artificial intelligence. Trained as both a philosopher and a classical pianist, she brings an unusual perspective to questions about what it means to create. As BRAID Research Fellow, she leads CREA-TEC (Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives), a fellowship conducted in collaboration with Adobe that investigates how generative AI is reshaping creative practices. She leads the research cluster Creativity, AI, and the Human at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, which brings together over 120 members from academia, industry, and the arts. Her work has been published in various academic journals and conferences across philosophy, the arts, and Human-Computer Interaction, and featured on the BBC, Science, and Nature.
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This exhibition programme is supported by Inspace and the Institute for Design Informatics and is the Edinburgh College of Art feature for the 2026 Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
About Inspace
Inspace is part of the Institute for Design Informatics and is a collaborative hub, commissioning and producing creative activity. Our public programme connects data, research and creative talent. We host events and exhibitions where people can explore, learn, debate and create. Our programme unlocks digital technologies, tools and data and explores their role in society through a creative lens. We are home to Inspace City Screens, a unique seven screen street front projection space visible from Potterrow in Edinburgh.