Programme_Alt-w Fund

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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.

This opportunity is to commission and curate screen-based work for presentation at Edinburgh Futures Institute and/or Music Hall Aberdeen. The deadline for applications is the 17th July 2026. Work to completed by 1st October 2026.

Our curatorial focus is two-fold, long-form generative work that's infinite and algorithmic in nature, or short-form looping animation. Both should be silent and have immediacy for presentation in a transient space with a limited dwell time.

This opportunity is for both new or existing work. Lead applicants for a new commission should be based in Scotland but can collaborate with anyone from anywhere. Applications for existing work can be from anywhere.

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"Best grants ever. Alt-w alumni must be the best supported artists in the business. The benefits for us of winning one of these extended way beyond just the funding."

New Media Scotland's Alt-w Fund receives investment from Aberdeen Performing Arts and University of Edinburgh.