Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award - Theodore Koterwas
theodorekoterwas.com

23rd & 24th Feb 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

The project reframes our relationship to the real and virtual. Using machine learning, slowly morphing images of granite are shown in close up, accompanied by music generated from local news feeds and comprised from the sounds of the physical labour that built Aberdeen: metal striking stone. To hear the music, take a seat and press your head back.

Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Robert Powell with Louise Wild
@robert_powell_artist

1st November 2022 to 7th January 2023
. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

The chronoscope is designed to not only tell the time but also convey how, why and what time really is. As each slender slither of time bursts into being, the chronoscope gauges the exact nature of that particular moment and visualises it. (It is no wonder that the chronoscope sometimes runs a little slow.)

Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award - Donna Leishman
6amhoover.com

5th September to 29th October 2022
. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

A contemporary play on the ‘Carta Marina,’ the late middle age marine map created in 1532 by the Swedish theologist and cartographer Olaus Magnus. In this work Leishman is interested in playing with the speculative freedom of the so-called ‘dark ages’ and how this resonates today in our post-truth, image saturated and polarized culture(s).

Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Frances Priest with Sam Healy
francespriest.co.uk

17th December 2022 to 10th January 2023.
Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL

Motifs from the realm of neoclassical architecture dance and evolve on screen, tracing a journey from the ancient, analogue and physical, to the modern, digital and abstract. Craft techniques such as tiling, mosaic, marquetry, weave and stitch all originated as mathematical pattern structures and here are brought full circle, ‘re-encoded’ as algorithms.

Production Awards

• Donna Leishman
  Magna Marina
• Frances Priest with Sam Healy
  Imbrication
• Nina Stanger
  Merge
• Robert Powell with Louise Wild
  Chronoscope
• Theodore Koterwas
  ...in place of what is here and endures.

Cycle 14 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Silent Chaos
Marta NoOne & Ugo Vantini

10th Jan to 1st April 2023. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Every human being has become a living set of data and a potential content creator. The Music Hall is now a bespoke information collector, gathering data from the people and the activities occurring there, via a bespoke network of different sensors, and then visualised live.

Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award - Nina Stanger
ninastanger.com

19th April to 21st May 2022. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Through a combination of 3D rendering, augmented reality, motion tracking and performance, this work superimposes an interactive sculptural form in the space directly behind the Music Hall screen, which itself becomes a window into a virtual realm, that's both uncanny and otherworldly.

Click here for free tickets to Merge Night on 18th May.

Cycle 14 Alt-w Exhibition Award - boredomresearch
Vicky Isley & Paul Smith

27th May 2022 to 15th April 2023. BOOK
Museum for Islamic Art, HaPalmach St 2, Jerusalem

These dynamic interpretations of Paisley pattern are inspired by both the iconic design and the prized freshwater pearl mussel that used to thrive in the White Cart river running through Paisley town. Each unique, generative form has been specially seeded for Jerusalem.

www.islamicart.co.il