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.

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 16 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Robert Powell
@robert_powell_artist

1st August to 2nd November 2025
. FREE
Edinburgh Printmakers, 1 Dundee Street EH3 9FP

Humanity's complexity, grandeur and folly is explored in this installation where unique imagery, in intricate and thought-provoking compositions, seeks to capture time. Inspired by medieval Books of Hours, Robert Powell's latest exhibition features animation, prints, sculpture and sound installation, reflecting how we experience, order and preserve time.

Cycle 16 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.

Cycle 16 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.