Tagged With_Archive 2022
Alt-w | Imbrication
Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Frances Priest with Sam Healy
francespriest.co.uk
7th November 2025 to 11th April 2026.
Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere LA23 3JT
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.
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Alt-w | You Are Here
Cycle 13 Alt-w Production Award - Ray Interactive
Sam Healy & Brendan McCarthy
1st December 2025 to January 30th 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF
In this map of the stars directly above Edinburgh Futures Institute, updated live as time passes, the incoming light generates unique abstract animations. By taking this stellar data set and a computer algorithm called reaction/diffusion, they literally bring the heavens alive.
Restless, vital patterns emerge looking like cells, fingerprints, fungi, animal markings or brain cross-sections. They remind us that all life originates in the stars. Each iteration hints at the fragile balance between growth and death on which beauty, harmony and meaning depend.
Alt-w | Chronoscope
Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Robert Powell
@robert_powell_artist
1st August to 2nd November 2025
. FREE
Edinburgh Printmakers, 1 Dundee Street EH3 9FP
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.)
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Alt-w | Magna Marina
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).
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Alt-w | Cycle 14
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.
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Alt-w | Human AutomatArt
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.
Archive 2019-2025
You can find aspects of our programme archived here by clicking on the tags below.
Alt-w | Cycle 13
Production Awards
- Bright Side Studios
Invisible Landscapes of Music - Charles Young
Assembly - Cliona Harmey
Abderdeen Ships - Ray Interactive
You Are Here - Silent Chaos
Human AutomatArt
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Alt-w | Paisley Pearls
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.