Alt-w | a space for encapsulation

a space for encapsulation

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Andrey Chugunov
andreychugunov.com

8th October to 30th November 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

This project explores the coastal areas of Scotland where industrial and natural structures have become interwoven. These areas, where life began the evolutionary journey from ocean to land, are at risk due to rising water levels. This anthropogenic impact on the coast is highlighted by the artist via photogrammetry of the emerging assemblages.

Alt-w | Resono

Resono Cupar

Cycle 10 Alt-w Production Award -
Sam Annand, Craig Gallacher, Paul Gault & Scott Gordon
Available on vinyl and download now.

This sound art and music project took place in some of Scotland’s most interesting acoustic spaces. The concept was to compose, perform and record compositions specifically for a series of particularly reverberant locations using impulse response digital audio technology.

Resono was performed inside Cupar's massive fifty eight metre high concrete silo, built in 1964 by the British Sugar Corporation, and in the nave of the Sir George Gilbert Scott designed St. Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh of 1879. Both exceptional spaces for sonic experimentation.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere | Ponyo

For details of our last Atmosphere click here.

Atmosphere is our most popular research and event programme. First premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival, it re-imagines the concept of Atmospheric movie theaters from the 1920s and 30s.

Each expanded screening uses a team of guest artists and creatives to work with technology old and new, multi-sensory interactives and live elements too. Expect some smoke and mirrors, before the bells and whistles.

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Alt-w Fund

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The application deadline has now passed.

Initiated in Dundee by Scottish Screen, the Alt-w Fund is for practitioners based in Scotland to make and develop new artworks, devices and creative applications that challenge the notions of what new media creativity can be.

The fund supports artists to explore experimental and interactive practice, make use of technology as both medium and message, and recognise the changing role that digital culture has in our society.

Alt-w | Lines Between Worlds

Lines Between Worlds

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Staunch Industries
staunchindustries.com

3rd December 2024 to 1st February 2025. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

An invitation to journey - an exploration of landscapes both familiar and fantastical, guided by the unbroken flow of a pure white line against a vast black canvas. Each element - a castle perched on a winding path, a lone tree, a wave curling into the unknown - represents a place of potential, an anchor in this visual narrative of discovery.

Archive 2019-2024

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Atmosphere OS

New Media Scotland was one of the very first four Creative Informatics challenge holders, securing £20,000 to support an innovative research and development proposal that collaboratively answered our challenge, Atmosphere OS.

Our challenge was to create an open-source toolkit for pop-up multi-sensory cinematic experiences that enables film exhibitors to work creatively with intersecting data sets provided by guests, a chosen venue and the movie itself.

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