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SUMMARY:Spark Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Young people from the Alternative School at Spartans Community Foundation are back at the festival for the third year\, with their brand-new exhibition\, Spark. Writer in residence Owen Sutcliffe has been working with the young people to spark their imaginations\, ask big questions and get their creative juices flowing. Join us to see their funny\, provocative and sparky creative work.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/spark-exhibition/
LOCATION:Anthea Bond Exhibition Room\, Level 1\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh International Book Festival,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Words from the Wards: The Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Last year\, through our Words from the Wards project\, we asked the people of Edinburgh to share stories about the former Royal Infirmary\, to honour the experiences and memories that people connect with the building’s previous life. Following the success of the project\, we worked with Edinburgh College of Art students to illustrate the collected stories. Join us to view the stories and illustrations side by side in our new festival gallery.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/words-from-the-wards-the-exhibition/
LOCATION:Anthea Bond Exhibition Room\, Level 1\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh International Book Festival,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Building Near Futures: Human AI Ensembles - EFI Master's Student Showcase
DESCRIPTION:The Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Building Near Futures course proudly invites you to join our students for the 2025 course showcase.  \n\n\n\nJoin us for an inspiring showcase of bold ideas and visionary thinking! Students from the Building Near Futures course at Edinburgh Futures Institute present their future prototypes in a digital exhibition\, exploring how humans and AI can collaborate to tackle pressing societal and environmental challenges. \n\n\n\nShort form videos guide audiences through near-future scenarios and inspire conversation on AI co-creation. Will these ideas spark real-world change? Come see for yourself and be part of the discussion. \n\n\n\nFree Entry – RSVP is required.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/building-near-futures-human-ai-ensembles-efi-masters-student-showcase/
LOCATION:Room 1.50\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:How to Find the Soul of a Sailor: Artist Talk and Opening Event
DESCRIPTION:Kasia Molga\, an acclaimed interdisciplinary artist\, designer and storyteller invites you to explore her first iteration of How to Find the Soul of a Sailor\, a deeply personal and innovative project that fuses the past\, present\, and future through the lens of artificial intelligence and memory. This work is the result of The New Real 2023-2024 commission “Uncanny Machines” supported by the Scottish AI Alliance. Hosted at Inspace Gallery with additional support from Arts Council England\, this unique early access version runs from December 12-21\, 2024\, and January 6-11\, 2025. \n\n\n\nImmerse yourself in a deeply personal journey to the future of our oceans and sailors’ time at sea. Experience the Mediterranean sea through the eyes of Molga’s late father\, Tadeusz Molga\, a devoted sailor. During his voyages\, he meticulously documented his passion for the ocean\, a love he shared with young Kasia as she accompanied him on his ship. Fifteen years after his passing\, Molga is left with a profound sense of loss and a collection of his cherished diaries. When the memories of their time together begin to fade\, she turns to these diaries\, clinging to the remnants of his voice and their shared experiences at sea. Molga’s work captures an emotional and environmental journey highlighting the fragility of our oceans\, the ever-changing work conditions of sailors\, and speculates on the future and what her father would say. \n\n\n\nMolga uses The New Real’s specialised experiential AI platform\, The New Real Observatory\, to reimagine her father’s words\, projecting them 50 years into the future. This project is a powerful fusion of memory and technology\, blending generative AI tools with climate data to create an emotionally charged narrative that visualises both the past and future of our oceans. \n\n\n\nMolga’s exhibition uniquely combines English and Polish\, creating a bilingual experience that delves into the profound topics of personal connection to climate change and the digital afterlife. Her work not only honours the enduring power of memory but also showcases the potential benefits and drawbacks of various artificial intelligence tools to preserve and transform our personal histories. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is a must-see for those interested in the intersections of art\, technology\, and the environment\, offering a poignant reflection on the future of our planet and the boundless possibilities of human-AI collaboration. \n\n\n\nArtisit Talk and Opening Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event will feature an Artist Talk and light refreshments will be provided. Tickets are limited. Please reserve a ticket here. \n\n\n\nExhibition Details\n\n\n\nDates: Thurs – Sat| 12-21 Dec 2024 ; Mon – Sat | 6 -11 Jan 2025 (closed on Sundays)Time: 10:00 – 17:00 | Free/Drop-InLocation: Inspace\, 1 Crichton St\, Newington\, Edinburgh EH8 9AB \n\n\n\nArtist\n\n\n\nKasia Molga (UK/PL) has refused to be labelled – design fusionist\, artist\, environmentalist\, creative coder and technologist who for over a decade has sought ways of collaboration with nature\, predominantly focusing on the ever-changing human relation to and perception of the natural environment and fellow ‘earthlings’. Her award winning work has been exhibited worldwide (i\,e. Ars Electronica\, Tate Modern\, MIS (BR)\, Centre Pompidou and more). Kasia has taken part in many international art & science residencies and has lectured and mentored regularly in the EU and UK. An affinity with the ocean is evident in Kasia’s work\, born from her time growing up on merchant navy vessels with her sailor father and she is the proud holder of a diving licence. studiomolga.com \n\n\n\n*Please register your seat for the Artist Talk and Opening Event. The exhibition is open to drop-In. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, please contact Courtney Bates\, Project Manager of The New Real at c.bates@ed.ac.uk. \n\n\n\nFor inquiries about accessibility\, please contact the DI team at designinformatics@ed.ac.uk or visit the Access webpage for more venue information: https://inspace.ed.ac.uk/venue-access/ \n\n\n\nAbout The New Real:\n\n\n\nThe New Real is a leading research hub on arts and AI at The University of Edinburgh\, fostering innovative projects at the intersection of technology\, creativity\, and society. The New Real explores how AI impacts life at a profound level\, often interacting with us in fascinating and unanticipated ways\, and illuminates how emerging technology can become a creative\, playful and deeply impactful part of everyday living. The New Real is developed in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute\, Edinburgh College of Art\, and The Edinburgh Futures Institute. \n\n\n\nAbout Scottish AI Alliance:\n\n\n\nScotland’s national Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy was launched in March 2021 and set out a vision for Scotland to become a leader in the development and use of trustworthy\, ethical and inclusive AI. \n\n\n\nThe Scottish AI Alliance is tasked with the delivery of the vision outlined in Scotland’s AI Strategy by empowering Scotland’s people\, supporting Scotland’s businesses and organisations\, and influencing policy impacting Scotland. The Scottish AI Alliance is a strategic collaboration between The Data Lab and the Scottish Government and is led by a Minister-appointed Chair and overseen by Senior Responsible Officers from The Data Lab (CEO) and the Scottish Government (CDO). Its activities are overseen and advised by governance and outcomes focussed advisory groups with representation across society and Scotland’s AI community. \n\n\n\nAbout Inspace:\n\n\n\nInspace 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. \n\n\n\nAbout Arts Council England : \n\n\n\nArts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. They help people in every corner of the country to experience and benefit from creativity. They do this by investing in artists and organisations that make and deliver exceptional\, inspirational work for our communities.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/how-to-find-the-soul-of-a-sailor-artist-talk-and-opening-event/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Niranthea: A Portrait of Multiplicity in Five Episodes
DESCRIPTION:Image taken as still from Niranthea\, Marco Donnarumma \n\n\n\nNiranthea is a hybrid short film combining documentary\, audiovisual synaesthesia and AI hearing algorithms to tackle the notions of Deafhood\, prosthesis and cyborg. It offers a poetic reflection on the unlearning of normative conceptions of sound and body technology. It does so directly through the unscripted ideas\, thoughts and experiences of a group of six d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. The dialogues were filmed after five months of communal research\, during which the group had engaged in regular conversations and research sessions mediated by artist Marco Donnarumma – himself late-deafened. \n\n\n\nThis process of sharing\, analysis and intimate reflection served to create a new communal voice\, a voice that is one and multiple at once. The title symbolises this multiplicity: Niranthea is\, in fact\, an acronym of the letters found in the first names of the members of the working group\, Adriane\, Ann-Catrin\, Mara\, Martin\, Wojciech. Through their different voices\, Niranthea becomes a multiform identity\, a pluripotent and plurisensitive body of perception. \n\n\n\nThe knowledge embodied by Niranthea strives to describe an incredibly wide rage of sonic experiences that do not have anything to do with “hearing” as most commonly intended. Such experiences go well beyond the dominating audist understanding of sound perception and thus inevitably trigger urgent questions on the relationship between sites of power and disabled bodies\, self-empowerment\, misunderstanding and the role of technology in this ecology. \n\n\n\nDonnarumma’s long-term focus on body technologies and AI prostheses is significantly renewed and expanded here. Whereas traditionally\, cyborg art and posthuman art offer conceptual\, idealised or hyperboled perspectives on what a cyborg body really means\, this work breaks with that tradition by confronting the real life experience of those using – or\, importantly\, choosing not to use – those very prostheses; people who live with them inside their bodies as an ambiguous mark of both their own identity and the isolation they are subjected to by the hearing world. \n\n\n\nThe uncompromising conversations and accounts of the group members are complemented\, emphasised and perceptually manifested through a carefully crafted sonic and visual experience drifting through and\, sometimes\, radically abstracting landscape imagery and audio field recordings of the Icelandic wilderness. In delicately combining personal accounts and AI-based sound and visual design\, the film offers a journey through a multitude of alternative perceptions of sound: its fleeting presence\, its seeming absence and the innumerable\, potential states of being it fosters. \n\n\n\nNiranthea is part of the series I Am Your Body (2022-present)\, a project investigating deafness\, sound and (artificial) intelligence through participatory research driven by d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. \n\n\n\nLinks: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://marcodonnarumma.com/works/niranthea\n\n\n\n\nhttps://marcodonnarumma.com/series/i-am-your-body \n\n\n\nCredits\n\n\n\nConcept\, artistic direction\, video editing\, AI audio and sound design\, workshop methods and mediation: Marco Donnarumma \n\n\n\nCast\, dialogue thoughts and ideas: Wojciech Czernia\, Adriane Große\, Ann-Catrin Gruber\, Martin Holst\, Mara Matzke \n\n\n\nMusic: excerpts from the forthcoming album “Annihilating Despair” by Leiche (Marco Donnarumma). Mastered by Daniele Antezza at Dadub Studio \n\n\n\nCinematography Essen: Daniele Lucchini \n\n\n\nLight design Essen: Andrea Familari \n\n\n\nCinematography Iceland: Margherita Pevere\, Marco Donnarumma \n\n\n\nGerman Sign Language interpreter: Elisa-Marie Mischewski \n\n\n\nDialogues moderation and production: Kotryna Slapsinskaite \n\n\n\nExhibition view photography: Dirk Rose – PACT Zollverein \n\n\n\nArtwork’s description texts: Marco Donnarumma
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/niranthea-a-portrait-of-multiplicity-in-five-episodes/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab: Seats at the Table exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Our Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’\, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present. \n\n\n\nThe term utopia was coined from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia\, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. \n\n\n\nThe word comes from Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόποσ (“place”) and means “no-place”\, and strictly describes any non-existent society ‘described in considerable detail’.[i] \n\n\n\nFollowing on from a 1.5 day Utopia Lab design session in which Dr Jimmy Turner and Francesca Vale will have shared their visions of a utopia in which everyone has an equal but individual seat at the table\, visitors to this exhibition will be invited to explore the responses that Utopia Lab participants have created in the form of chair designs and models that offer comfort and community to people of all descriptions and abilities. Guests will be invited to consider how the chairs interact with one another and what they represent for the world or worlds they inhabit. We will also consider what utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change. This is a drop in event\, please feel free to come when suits and to stay as long as you wish. \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nUtopia is a ‘no-space’ for contemplation\, innovation and collaboration. Our labs curate interactions between academics\, artists\, entrepreneurs\, students and audiences in person and online globally. We are interested in that which is provocative and irreverent as well as that which is nurturing and joyful. Utopia questions are catalysts for inquiry\, learning and creativity. With an emphasis on innovative and experimental ways of communicating\, we will explore meditation\, dialogue and co-creation with the help of a facilitator. Participants consist of University staff and students\, and non-University practitioners. \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/utopialab/utopia-lab-2023/ \n\n\n\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner is a Research Fellow for the Binks Hub at the University of Edinburgh with a background in anthropology and gender studies. Their woodworking practice started as a hobby in 2018\, and has since developed into an artistic and curational practice which frequently merges into the ethnographic and social research contexts in which they work. This has recently seen Jimmy work with colleagues from the EFI and local community to make the ‘Spirit Case’ sculpture which lives on the third floor of Edinburgh Futures Institute\, collaborate with the Ripple Project in NE Edinburgh on a community-led arts/research project\, and collaborate artistically with colleagues from Edinburgh\, Newcastle and Kings College London on the AHRC ‘Fail again\, fail better’ project\, which explores utopia and failure. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. She is currently halfway through her doctoral project\, which uses a blended scholarly and practice-based approach to consider the representation of breast cancer surgery in art and curation. Currently she is co-curating the Empowered Journeys project with people who have had breast cancer surgery to produce artworks and pieces of text based on their lived experience. These artworks will go into an exhibition that will consider representation and investigate how curation and creativity can challenge the narratives that society projects onto post-surgery bodies. Previously she undertook a Masters by Research in Collections and Curating Practices\, in which she co-curated the Art in Mind exhibition\, an exploration of art and mindfulness\, and completed her dissertation on the rarely-acknowledged collaborative processes of queer surrealist photographers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Utopia Lab Team\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams is the Creative Projects Manager at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She manages a portfolio of creative projects that connect the work of the Institute to communities within the University of Edinburgh and beyond its walls. Utopia Lab\, for instance\, is a project in which people from many different places gather to dream futures that inspire our experience of the present and allow us to see the world in new ways that enable change. \n\n\n\nJennifer is a poet and librettist and her background is in writing\, art\, collaboration\, creative learning and project management. Williams is particularly interested in expanding dialogues across languages\, perspectives and cultures and in poetry\, cross-form work\, music\, visual art\, dance\, opera and theatre. She is concerned with the body\, and how slowing down can help busy people to experience their connection to themselves\, one another and the world more fully. \n\n\n\nShe holds a BA degree from Wellesley College in English Literature with a Studio Art minor\, and an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Recent posts have included Projects & Engagement Coordinator at the Institute for Academic Development\, Programme Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library and Literature Officer at the Traverse Theatre. \n\n\n\nSee Jennifer’s website for more information about her own creative explorations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatjaz Vidmar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Matjaz Vidmar is one of the first utopians\, joining the pilot project in 2019. He is excited about philosophical\, processual and political implications of utopian thinking\, but actually enjoys the off-grid\, poetry-infused meditative vibe of our labs the most. Matjaz is also an academic in Engineering Management\, where he is researching innovation processes\, R&D (eco)systems and futures strategies and design\, especially within the space industry\, artificial intelligence and data-driven economy. He leads interdisciplinary projects spanning arts\, science and civil society\, he is involved in several start-up companies; and he delivers an extensive public engagement programme. More at www.blogs.ed.ac.uk/vidmar
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-seats-at-the-table-exhibition/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024
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SUMMARY:Alternative Futures – Who Decides?
DESCRIPTION:The Binks Hub and the Ripple Project warmly invites you to an exhibition of co-created art that challenges the status quo and offers an alternative view of what communities need to flourish. \n\n\n\nExhibiting in partnership with Dovecot Studios\, the world-renowned tapestry studio in the heart of Edinburgh\, ‘Alternative Futures – Who Decides?’ is the result of a collaboration between The Binks Hub at the University of Edinburgh and The Ripple Project\, a grassroots\, community-led charity\, using creativity and the arts to co-create community-driven research that makes a difference to people’s lives. \n\n\n\nFree drop-in workshops and activities: \n\n\n\n\nA Map of Dreams for a Future Edinburgh\, a collage workshop with Autumn Roesch-Marsh – Saturday 5th October\, drop-in between 12pm-1.30pm\n\n\n\nEkphrastic writing activity – available throughout the exhibition\n\n\n\nWeaving the community tapestry – available throughout the exhibition\n\n\n\nMaking and Drawing an Alternative Future Town with artist Bobby Sayers – Thursday 3rdOctober\, drop-in between 12pm-5pm\n\n\n\n\nPlease register your intended visit on Eventbrite
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/alternative-futures-who-decides/
LOCATION:Dovecot Studios\, 10 Infirmary Street\, Edinburgh\, EH1 1LT
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Citizens Data Agency Exhibition Opening Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us to explore the Citizens Data Agency\, a fictional service provider proposing five speculative data support services. This interactive exhibition showcases the outcomes of a series of co-design workshops which were part of a year-long research project which aims to spark conversations about the challenges people will face around data privacy in the future and what kinds of support services we might need. \n\n\n\nThe Citizens Data Agency is a project by researchers in the Institute for Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and seeks to explore what current and future data privacy support might look like for people from marginalised communities. We partnered with two community partners – Amina and Datakirk – who provide support for people from minority ethnic backgrounds. Through a series of participatory and co-design workshops the aim was to explore possible future speculative data support services designed around their experiences and needs. \n\n\n\nDatakirk is an Edinburgh based social enterprise that aims to empower people from disadvantaged groups in the data economy by providing learner-centred training in data literacy and analytic skills. \n\n\n\nAmina is a Scottish wide charity that empowers and supports Muslim and BME women by serving as a vital link between them and the barriers they face every day. \n\n\n\nThe project is funded by the UKRI National Research Centre on Privacy\, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN) and Edinburgh Futures Institute. \n\n\n\nCitizens Data Agency Exhibition Opening Event: \n\n\n\nDate: Thursday 25th July 2024 \n\n\n\nTime: 5 – 7pm \n\n\n\nExhibition continues: \n\n\n\nDate: Friday – Sunday\, 26th – 28th July 2024 \n\n\n\nTime: 10am – 5pm every day \n\n\n\n*Please register your seat for the Opening Event. The exhibition is open to drop-In. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/citizens-data-agency-exhibition-opening-event/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Creative Informatics Innovation Showcase 2023
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Informatics Innovation Showcase is an exciting two-day hybrid event and exhibition to explore how data-driven innovation is changing the world around us. Taking place at Central Hall in Edinburgh\, and streaming online\, we’ll be joined by inspirational leaders in the creative industries for thought-provoking panels\, in-depth conversations and special performances. \n\n\n\nThroughout the Innovation Showcase\, there will be opportunities to explore and experience some of the creative products supported by Creative Informatics in an interactive exhibition\, curated by Stacey Hunter (Local Heroes). \n\n\n\nJoin us to celebrate the visionary people and groundbreaking projects that have been part of\, and inspired\, the Creative Informatics programme over the past five years. \n\n\n\nThis event is free to attend with food and refreshments provided. \n\n\n\nThursday 28 September: Investment\, Innovation\, Impact \n\n\n\nDay one explores the impact of the Creative Industries Clusters Programme with guests from across the network. We’ll hear from some inspiring creatives about how they took their businesses from idea\, through investment\, to in-the-world. We’ll explore some amazing examples of social impact from Creative Informatics-funded projects that show how small companies can create far reaching change and we’ll also be highlighting some exciting new opportunities for those working in virtual production while exploring the potential of AI for creatives. \n\n\n\nThursday will close with a discussion and performance from singer and producer Chagall. In Unlocked\, Chagall blends live vocals with a stunning interactive light-art installation\, bringing captivating physicality and human intimacy to electronic music. \n\n\n\nBrowse the full line up for Thursday 28 September. \n\n\n\nFriday 29 September: Powering Creative Connections \n\n\n\nDay two is all about making connections. We have inspirational keynotes from creators and curators\, and we’ll hearing from some incredible organisations who are supporting creatives through community networks. We’ll be looking at how data can be used to broaden access to creative work\, and chatting to practitioners who are making a big impact through sustainable practice and the disruption of traditional supply models. \n\n\n\nWe’ll be finishing the day with a special appearance from award-winning recording artist and technology innovator\, Imogen Heap\, in conversation with broadcaster\, author and activist Gemma Cairney\, followed by a drinks reception. \n\n\n\nBrowse the full line up for Friday 29 September.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/creative-informatics-innovation-showcase-2023/
LOCATION:Central Hall\, 2 West Tollcross\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9BP
CATEGORIES:Creative Industries,Exhibition
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