Production Awards

• ~ in the fields
  floc
• Jaygo Bloom
  World Wide Wegg
• Henry Cruickshank
  My Horrible Horrible Internet Life
• Matt Hulse
  Dummy Jim
• Jason Nelson
  Our Estate

Scottish Book Trust, 55 High Street, EH1 1SR
Saturday 25th October 2008, 10am - 6pm

This one-day workshop at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival took a look at traditional stone worship and its modern manifestations.

Stones are pretty durable - they have been around for a good while. Yet despite their apparent hardness, they have been quietly absorbing a whole range of human behaviour over the years, some of it serious and enlightened, and some of it downright outrageous and crazy. Ordinary folk, drunkards, kings, gods and spirits have all devoted time and attention to these seemingly silent objects.

Everyone has the potential to develop a special relation to a stone of their own choosing, be it standing or lying, polished or rugged, urban or rural. Focusing on a selection of urban stones, the participants discovered alternative methods of storytelling relating to the worship of ancient stones and their contemporary alternatives.

Informatics Forum, 10 Chrichton Street, EH8 9AB
Saturday 27th September 2008, 5-7pm

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When an artist-inventor and an engineering entrepreneur started talking over an arresting image of copper dendrite, little did they realise that it would lead them into a series of creative collaborations.

Rounding off Doors Open Day in Edinburgh, Richard Brown, Research Artist-in-Residence in the School of Informatics at Edinburgh University and Professor Michael Kozicki of Arizona State University and founder of Axon Technologies Corporation will be in conversation for this free public talk. Join us and find out just what happened next and discover more about the creative process in art, science and business.

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Saturday 13th September 2008, 7-9pm

www.6amhoover.com/xxx

Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw (2004) explores the best known case of demonic possession in Scottish History. This website created by Donna Leishman offers a rich narrative landscape for the user to browse: uncovering hidden scenarios while experiencing her story. Each leaf, cross and window could open a new path into the story, let yourself get lost inside.

imaging.dundee.ac.uk/people/njohnson

The interactive installation A-Life (2006) reveals the incredible complexity which evolves from simple systems. Drawing inspiration from John Conway’s ‘Game of Life,’ Nigel Johnson’s work incorporates elements of artificial intelligence, cellular automata and computer gaming. Left to its own devices the process will follow its path through
generations of life and death where a cell’s destiny is governed by how many neighbors it has.

www.hamandenos.com/sunbedcity.html

Mandy McIntosh’s Sun Bed City (2001-2008) explores the proliferation of tanning salons in Glasgow and Tokyo. She revisits this work with the graphic slogan "All our beds have been re-tubed" producing three new digital drawings which reference Egyptian gods of death and a 29 year old mother of two, who tragically died of skin cancer after using sun beds twice a day for seven years.

nickybird.com/projects/question-for-seller

Nicky Bird's Question for Seller (2006) playfully explores family photographs and online commerce. Using the auction site eBay the artist collected vintage photographs, combined them into a book which was resold on eBay.

A new book, Gay Interest Beefcake (2008) has been made to join Question for Seller and will be sold in a ten day eBay auction closing at the end of the exhibition's run.

www.magneticmigration.net

Zoë Irvine’s Magnetic Migration Music (1998 - present) is installed in this years Alt-w exhibition in its ‘mix tape’ format, where you can explore and mix your own soundscapes from fragments of discarded audio tape. Strands have been found all over the world wherever tape players have ventured. These fragments are worn and battered but can be re-spooled, and listened to.