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

5th July to 3rd September 2022
. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Motifs from the realm of decorative art and design 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 bought full circle, ‘re-encoded’ as algorithms.

Production Awards

• Donna Leishman
  Magna Marina
• Frances Priest with Sam Healy
  re-encoded
• Nina Stanger
  Merge
• Robert Powell with Louise Wilde
  Time Machine
• Theodore Koterwas
  ...in place of what is here and endures.

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

9th to 24th April 2022. FREE
National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh

Every human being has become a living set of data and a potential content creator. The Grand Gallery 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.

Cycle 13 Alt-w Exhibition Award - On Growth And Form
Daniel Brown

1st September to 31st October 2021. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Daniel Brown is a creative technologist working in the fields of generative and interactive art and design. His pioneering 'On Growth and Form' series takes its name from a 1917 book by Scottish biologist Sir D'arcy Thompson, who used mathematics to investigate the shape of plants and animals and the relationships between different species.

At the Music Hall, a custom 'Victoria' iteration of the series also draws upon the 19th century tradition of cultivating and collecting personal and unique species of flowering plants, but with a 21st century nod to the futuristic notion of genetic engineering and artificial life. This unique animation for Aberdeen is generated in real time, and never repeats.

Production Awards

• Bright Side Studios
  Invisible Landscapes of Music
• Charles Young
  Assembly
• Cliona Harmey
  Abderdeen Ships
• Ray Interactive
  You Are Here
• Silent Chaos
  Human AutomatArt

Cycle 13 Alt-w Production Award - Charles Young
www.paperholm.com

1st October 2019 to 23rd March 2020. ON ROTATION
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Charles Young is best known for his Alt-w supported project Paperholm, where he designed, made, photographed and animated a tiny model building daily out of paper for one thousand days. His looping moving images explore ideas around the perception of space, imagination and memory.

In this new series of HD animations, a paper model of the neighbourhood that surrounds the Music Hall is shown from varying angles and different heights. This base of the existing city has been added to with a layer of invented structures and occupation that are bound to delight.

Cycle 13 Alt-w Production Award - Bright Side Studios
Susanna Murphy & Cristina Spiteri

1st October 2019 to 23rd March 2020. ON ROTATION
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Revealing the dramatic beauty of hidden ecosystems and microscopic landscapes that lie beneath the surface of the musical world. Through film and augmented reality an exploration of scores, instruments and physical media uncovers a mysterious, rarely seen world, now writ large.

Download the Zappar app here.

Cycle 13 Alt-w Production Award - Ray Interactive
Sam Healy & Brendan McCarthy

9th to 24th April 2022. BUY DAY PASS
City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DE

In this map of the stars directly above the City Art Centre, 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.

DCN Creative Research Artist Fellowships

• Alex Menzies & Florence To
  Music
• Gavin Inglis
  Language & Cognition
• Susana Cámara Leret
  Design


DCN Mentoring Residencies

• Jack King-Spooner
  I am in a hare's likeness now
• Stacey Hunter
  Design and personal identity
• Sven Werner
  Observer Cinema