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Alt-w | Moving On
Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - KMG
www.kmgyeah.com
6th August to 5th October 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS
The artist KMG first unleashed her multi-eyed character ‘Ken’ onto Aberdeen's streets as part of Nuart in 2021. Now back at the Music Hall, the ever charismatic character is seen skateboarding, surfing and riding a fox no less. An unmistakable combination, filled with playful enthusiasm.
KMG's work explores themes ranging from the precarious to the mundane, with often quite subversive results. A weird and wonderful combination of curiosity mixed with utter cynicism leaves her work with a surreal and sarcastic tone. Her belief in the power of accessible art is unshakeable.
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Alt-w | Resono
.jpg "Resono Cupar")
Cycle 10 Alt-w Production Award -
Sam Annand, Craig Gallacher, Paul Gault & Scott Gordon
Available on vinyl and download now.
This sound art and music project took place in some of Scotland’s most interesting acoustic spaces. The concept was to compose, perform and record compositions specifically for a series of particularly reverberant locations using impulse response digital audio technology.
Resono was performed inside Cupar's massive fifty eight metre high concrete silo, built in 1964 by the British Sugar Corporation, and in the nave of the Sir George Gilbert Scott designed St. Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh of 1879. Both exceptional spaces for sonic experimentation.
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Alt-w Fund
The application deadline has now passed.
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.
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Alt-w | Lines Between Worlds
Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Staunch Industries
staunchindustries.com
3rd December 2024 to 1st February 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.
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Alt-w | art is a thing of the future
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.
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Alt-w | Artifacts of Life
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?
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Alt-w | Hotel Generation
The application deadline has now passed.
Are you a digital artist between the age of 18 and 28 based in Scotland? Do you want the chance to have your own solo exhibition with a £7.5k production award?
Hotel Generation is a yearly, UK-wide development programme that provides vital mentoring and support to young digital artists. You’ll have the chance to be mentored by New Media Scotland in preparing an exhibition proposal around the theme ‘The Body, The Mind, The Soul’. The winning artist, selected by a panel of industry experts, will have a solo exhibition at arebyte Gallery in London.
Alt-w | ...in place of what is here and endures
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.
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Alt-w | Living Lithograph
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.
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Alt-w | Dream Visualiser
Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Luci Holland
luciholland.com
31st Oct 2023 to 6th January 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS
Generative animation by Aberdeen-born composer and conductor Luci Holland representing the phases of activity our brain's experience during sleep, created in partnership with neuroscience researcher Narelle Freeman, who is also a musician. Neurological and diary data become a liquid dreamscape, visualising the five stages of human sleep.
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