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Alt-w | Moving On
Cycle 15 Alt-w Exhibition 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.
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Alt-w | Human AutomatArt
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.
Alt-w | You Are Here
Cycle 13 Alt-w Production Award - Ray Interactive
Sam Healy & Brendan McCarthy
17th Feb to 1st April 2023. FREE
An Lanntair, Kenneth St, Stornoway HS1 2DS
In this map of the stars directly above An Lanntair, updated live as time passes, the fleeting presence of visitors generates unique abstract animations. By taking this stellar data set and a computer algorithm called reaction/diffusion, they literally bring the heavens alive.
Restless, vital patterns emerge looking like cells, fingerprints, fungi, animal markings or brain cross-sections. They remind us that all life originates in the stars. Each iteration hints at the fragile balance between growth and death on which beauty, harmony and meaning depend.
Alt-w | Paisley Pearls
Cycle 14 Alt-w Exhibition Award - boredomresearch
Vicky Isley & Paul Smith
27th May 2022 to 15th April 2023. BOOK
Museum for Islamic Art, HaPalmach St 2, Jerusalem
These dynamic interpretations of Paisley pattern are inspired by both the iconic design and the prized freshwater pearl mussel that used to thrive in the White Cart river running through Paisley town. Each unique, generative form has been specially seeded for Jerusalem.
Alt-w | Cybraphon
Cycle 06 Alt-w Production Award -
FOUND
Ziggy Campbell, Simon Kirby and Tommy Perman
Cybraphon is not currently on display.
National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh
Cybraphon, the autonomous emotional robot band, is now part of the National Museum of Scotland's collection. The artist collective FOUND gifted Cybraphon to the nation in 2013. It can now be seen as a key bridging work between the new art & design and science & technology galleries.
Cybraphon obsessively googles itself every 15 seconds to see how popular it is. The results affect its emotional state which in turn affects its playing style. Twenty-five antique instruments and 60 robotic actuators then play music that FOUND has composed for each emotion.
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