This paper explores ongoing interests in the relationship between fine art and technology alongside linkages with learning and teaching, specifically the place of the virtual in relation to studio practice, and a search for what Penny (2004) has coined, as the ‘missing pieces’
between art and technology. While Virtual Learning Environments are increasingly important educational spaces, it is still necessary to define how the virtual supports the needs of individuals as makers, with virtual space offering both a site and process for the production
of work. This paper considers the potential of the virtual within the context of learning and teaching, as a unique, dynamic site for production within fine art practice and studio teaching, through which individuals make, exchange and reflect as practitioners. It also
reflects on how we might extend the role of the virtual in terms of the real, by means of its relationship to the studio