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Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Olesya Ilenok
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May 3rd to July 30th 2027. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

A sequence of site-specific moving-image works for Aberdeen and Edinburgh that combine computational text generation with digital landscapes. Poetic interventions rooted in each city’s literary heritage and urban context are generated using a Markov Chain algorithm, a mathematical system that models sequences of possible events.

Olesya Ilenok is an interdisciplinary artist working across media art, sound and installation. Her practice explores relationships between technology, ecological systems and urban experience through psychogeography, computational processes and subjective data. Her work has been presented internationally, including at Cryptic Nights.

Co-commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts, Edinburgh Futures Institute and New Media Scotland’s Alt-w Fund with investment from the University of Edinburgh.