A 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.
Morphological Murmurations
A multisensory installation engaging audiences kinaesthetically with language
Morphological Murmurations is a multisensory installation engaging audiences kinaesthetically with language, embodied communication, neurodivergence, artificial intelligence (AI) and models of animal behaviour. The artwork places visitors within the space of a Large Language Model, an AI system designed to understand and analyze human language, where a flock of artificial agents respond to their movements, visually and sonically activating words. This is language, not assembled through computational logic, but through patterns of bodies working together. Through the intuition of movement, muscle memory and spatial awareness, the visitor explores the environment of a putative “other mind” (the LLM) through an alternative model of how embodied minds (birds) coordinate movement and create meaning with their bodies.
Image Credit: Morphological Murmurations, © Theodore Koterwas 2025
Exhibition details
Dates: Wed-Sun, 26 -30 Aug, 2026
Times: 10:00 – 17:00 Daily | Free/Drop-in
Relaxed viewing: 10:00 – 13:00, Thurs 27
Relaxed exhibition viewing time provides accessible, sensory-friendly version of the installation with reduced capacity, lowered sound levels, and increased lighting, designed for neurodiverse individuals or anyone seeking a calmer experience.
Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Audience: General public
Venue Access features: Accessible toilets, Assistance dogs welcome, Baby changing facilities, Seating, Step-free access, Wheelchair accessible