Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Olesya Ilenok
ilenok.art

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.

Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Leigh Bagley
leighbagley.com

30th October 2026 to 29th January 2027. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

What happens when a graphic system originally designed to organise time becomes a mechanism for generating the experience of time? Inspired by French designer Jean-Pierre Vitrac's iconic perpetual wall calendar, this new moving-image artwork transforms its graphic structure into a chronographic animation that explores pattern and rhythm.

Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Dave Bowes
efi.ed.ac.uk/creative-work

3rd August to 29th October 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

Every building holds stories written through countless everyday encounters. Over time, these fleeting moments become part of the building itself. This hidden history is found in the marks left behind. Together, these accumulated imprints tell an evolving story of the people who have inhabited this place, now transformed into a living artwork.

Production Awards

• Daira Ronzoni
  Cosmic Ch’ixi
• Dave Bowes
  The Marks Left Behind
• David Cass
  Till
• Donna Wilson
  YOU CAN'T DO IT .......YETi
• Leigh Bagley
  Infinite Order
• Olesya Illnok
  Wall_for_scroll

Cycle 16 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Étienne Jacob
bleuje.com

1st September to 28th November 2026. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Built using algorithms, mathematics and digital processes, these animations embrace the creative constraints of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF). They can be enjoyed without explanation, while revealing extraordinary complexity beneath their elegant simplicity.

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

4th February to 3rd April 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

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 Edinburgh Futures Institute. Organisms on screen are generated by machine learning and animated using latent space interpolation to calculate the best trajectory between each.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Andrey Chugunov
andreychugunov.com

3rd June to 31st July 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

This project explores the coastal areas of Scotland where industrial and natural structures have become interwoven. These areas, where life began the evolutionary journey from ocean to land, are at risk due to rising water levels. This anthropogenic impact on the coast is highlighted by the artist via photogrammetry of the emerging assemblages.