Alt-w Fund
Application Deadline: 17th March 2023 at 6pm.
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.
Cycle 15 of the fund will commission and curate work for presentation on the 4.5m high LED screen that welcomes every visitor to the refurbished Music Hall in Aberdeen. The deadline for applications is the 17th March 2023 at 6pm.
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LateLab | Biomimicry
Wednesday 5th April 2023, 7:30 for 8pm. £15|£13 RSVP
Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Rd, Edinburgh EH8 8AS
Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to solve human and scientific challenges. Using the planetarium dome and an artificial rainforest environment, Dr Veronika Kapsali, Professor of Materials Technology and Design at the London College of Fashion will introduce the subject with a focus on design.
LateLab | Ponyo
Sunday 16th April 2023, 5:30pm and 8pm. £12|£10 RSVP
FloWave, Max Born Crescent, King's Buildings EH9 3BF
A young boy finds a fish trapped in a glass jar on the beach. He frees her, and names her Ponyo, but she’s no ordinary fish. The daughter of a wizard and sea goddess, she wants to be human. But in using her father’s magic to achieve her aims, a dangerous imbalance is unleashed in the ocean. The children must save the world, and fulfil her dreams.
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LateLab | When Fish Begin To Crawl
Saturday 15th April 2023, 7:30 for 8pm. £12|£10 RSVP
Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Rd, Edinburgh EH8 8AS
Premiere of a new work co-directed by filmmaker Morag McKinnon and composer Jim Sutherland. When Fish Begin To Crawl is a meditation on the climate crisis and humanity’s relationship with nature, embodying an urgent yet hopeful dialogue between art and science, spanning geological deep time and present-day eco-emergencies.
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.
Alt-w | You Are Here
Cycle 13 Alt-w Production Award - Ray Interactive
Sam Healy & Brendan McCarthy
17th Feb to 1st April 2023. FREE
An Lanntair, Kenneth St, Stornoway HS1 2DS
In this map of the stars directly above An Lanntair, updated live as time passes, the fleeting presence of visitors 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.