Tagged With_Archive 2026
Alt-w | Imbrication
Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Frances Priest with Sam Healy
francespriest.co.uk
6th April to 29th May 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF
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.
Alt-w | Living Lithograph
Cycle 15 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Lindsey Carr
lindseycarrart.com
4th February to 3rd April 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF
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 Edinburgh Futures Institute. 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 | You Are Here
Cycle 13 Alt-w Production Award - Ray Interactive
Sam Healy & Brendan McCarthy
1st December 2025 to 3rd February 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF
In this map of the stars directly above Edinburgh Futures Institute, updated live as time passes, the incoming light 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.