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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.

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.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - KMG
www.kmgyeah.com

4th April to 1st July 2023. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Aberdeen-raised artist KMG, who trained at Gray's School of Art, has unleashed her multi-eyed character ‘Ken’ onto the Music Hall screen. In this new animation the 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.

Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Robert Powell with Louise Wild
@robert_powell_artist

1st November 2022 to 7th January 2023
. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

The chronoscope is designed to not only tell the time but also convey how, why and what time really is. As each slender slither of time bursts into being, the chronoscope gauges the exact nature of that particular moment and visualises it. (It is no wonder that the chronoscope sometimes runs a little slow.)

Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award - Donna Leishman
6amhoover.com

5th September to 29th October 2022
. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

A contemporary play on the ‘Carta Marina,’ the late middle age marine map created in 1532 by the Swedish theologist and cartographer Olaus Magnus. In this work Leishman is interested in playing with the speculative freedom of the so-called ‘dark ages’ and how this resonates today in our post-truth, image saturated and polarized culture(s).

Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Frances Priest with Sam Healy
francespriest.co.uk

17th December 2022 to 10th January 2023.
Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL

Motifs from the realm of neoclassical architecture dance and evolve on screen, tracing a journey from the ancient, analogue and physical, to the modern, digital and abstract. Craft techniques such as tiling, mosaic, marquetry, weave and stitch all originated as mathematical pattern structures and here are brought full circle, ‘re-encoded’ as algorithms.

Production Awards

• Donna Leishman
  Magna Marina
• Frances Priest with Sam Healy
  Imbrication
• Nina Stanger
  Merge
• Robert Powell with Louise Wild
  Chronoscope
• Theodore Koterwas
  ...in place of what is here and endures.

Cycle 14 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Silent Chaos
Marta NoOne & Ugo Vantini

10th Jan to 1st April 2023. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Every human being has become a living set of data and a potential content creator. The Music Hall is now a bespoke information collector, gathering data from the people and the activities occurring there, via a bespoke network of different sensors, and then visualised live.