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.

Friday 20th June 2025, 7 for 7:30pm. £15
Lauriston Castle, 2 Cramond Rd S, Edinburgh EH4 6AD

Based on E.M. Forster's posthumously published novel, the film tells the story of Maurice Hall (James Wilby), and his complex relationships with two men: upper-class Clive Durham (Hugh Grant), and working-class Alec Sudder (Rupert Graves). The story explores themes of love, identity, and the societal norms of Edwardian England.

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Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Robert Powell
@robert_powell_artist

29th July to 27th September 2025
. 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.)

For details of our next Atmosphere click here.

Atmosphere is our most popular research and event programme. First premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival, it re-imagines the concept of Atmospheric movie theaters from the 1920s and 30s.

Each expanded screening uses a team of guest artists and creatives to work with technology old and new, multi-sensory interactives and live elements too. Expect some smoke and mirrors, before the bells and whistles.

Explore the Alt-w Fund archive here.

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.