Alt-w Production Award -
David Cass with Sam Healy
davidcass.art

3rd June to 26th July 2025. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

What happens at Earth’s poles affects us all; combined, they are our planet’s thermostat. Loss of ice in these places has a direct impact on our seas globally; and weather, perhaps the principal consideration for all who go to sea, becomes increasingly unpredictable.

This generative artwork explores global warming and ice-melt, with the 2025 Tall Ships Races as an anchor.

Alt-w Production Award - Daira Ronzoni
dairaronzoni.com

1st April to 31st May 2025. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Beneath the burning desert sun, metallic roots twist, a feathered snake glides, and arms of water flow through an Earth tree, glistening with fireflies. On motley rocks corn sprouts as mushrooms take root. Night falls, stars shimmer, and branches of Araucaria extend spiked arms in search of an embrace. Quaresmeira flowers bloom as the Spider Goddess scatters seeds in this virtual landscape.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Staunch Industries
staunchindustries.com

3rd December 2024 to 31st March 2025. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

An invitation to journey - an exploration of landscapes both familiar and fantastical, guided by the unbroken flow of a pure white line against a vast black canvas. Each element - a castle perched on a winding path, a lone tree, a wave curling into the unknown - represents a place of potential, an anchor in this visual narrative of discovery.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - David Bellingham
@davidbellingham_

4th June to 3rd August 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

As part of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Peacock, the printmaking workshop based in Aberdeen, we've co-commissioned a new piece of animated work for the Music Hall by Glasgow and Copenhagen-based artist, printmaker and publisher David Bellingham.

Bellingham's work is poetic and concise. He uses a diverse range of media, from painting and sculptural installation to books, postcards and other printed material, to explore the relationships between objects, words and contexts, often inverting our preconceptions about them.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Eena Daou
layerframe.co

2nd April to 1st June 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Ancient folklore around the world infer that everything has a spirit or essence. The Romans named the protective spirit of a place, Genus Loci. In Scotland many bodies of water were worshipped as deities. In Aberdeen, the River Dee's name was derived from the word ‘deva’, meaning goddess but what spirits lie beneath the surface of our waters now?

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 15 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Lindsey Carr
lindseycarrart.com

4th July to 2nd September 2023. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Originally developed as a tool for the creation of a series of lithographs based on Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Kunstformen Der Natur’ - the tool has now been reformatted for premiere at the Music Hall. Organisms on screen are generated by machine learning and animated using latent space interpolation to calculate the best trajectory between each.