Fancy searching for the microscopic life that surrounds you everyday? Join us at the Edinburgh Science Festival EXPERIMENTAL LIFE and EARTH FEST to find some creepy crawlies!

The experience will involve eating food fermented by fictional hybrid organisms analogous to the ones involved in the bread making experiments. Through ordering, tasting and thinking through food with fellow participants, the audience is invited to calculate the incalculable – the morality of genetic parts from different living beings, and to reflect on the choices they’ve made during the process.

Mythic Instruments explores the past and future of science and craft through mysticism and material. A return to and evolution of folklore, myth and ritual appears to have opened a portal for a greater type of knowledge.

Photographic artist Imogen Hero uses her expertise in analogue photographic techniques combined with scientific processes to examine the interconnectedness of life in the Universe. The work in this exhibition was created by collaborating with microbial cultures on the surface of photographic film to create new ‘Micro Planets’ . The images reflect what life may look like on other planets, and across vastly different scales

Morality Calculus is a bioart installation by artist Yuning Chen that recounts the endeavour of creating bread fermented with yeast-human cell hybrids in a synthetic biology lab in collaboration with biologist Dr.Elise Cachat.

Interlinking, multimedia installations by Dawn Felicia Knox exploring the way plants and fungi work together to undo the toxic residue of industrialisation.

Since ancient times, humans have been fascinated by shapes and structures, but looks can be deceiving! The Maths Outreach and College Engagement teams at the University of Edinburgh have joined forces so that you can explore the difference between how things really look, and how you might perceive them.

We Pretended It Wasn't Green is a generative animation by James Stephen Wright using satellite data. Showcasing a frog and enchanting mushrooms intricately woven into a constantly changing narrative influenced by earth data, the project highlights a disorienting contrast: a world where the vibrant green hues of nature are distorted and manipulated, representing our tendency to ignore the consequences of our actions.

Unearthing Micro Life is an art-science creative learning programme which aims to enable participants to engage creatively with their local greenspaces through outdoor interaction and sample collection, supported by hands-on experimentation in ASCUS Lab by looking at these samples under a microscope, learning about microbiology, DNA and scientific techniques.