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Premiering at this year’s Alt-w exhibition is the biologically networked installation World Wide Wegg (2008) by Jaygo Bloom with Ian Campell and Paul Fernihough.

Hens living in a community farm in Edinburgh are networked with the CCA so that each time an egg gets laid a signal is sent to the web enabled toaster in motion providing gallery goers with hot toast for consumption. The same egg laying response generates a single random number, after six eggs are laid a lottery ticket is purchased online.

Not only that, on the breakfast table is a peck controlled iTunes soundsystem, each peck on the piezo mic' attached to the chicken feed bowl causes the 'Cock Rock Disco' playlist to skip forward a track playing perpetual flutterings of chicken inspired songs.

1st Oct to 13th Nov 2011, Tues-Sat 10:30am-4:30pm
Bonhoga Gallery, Weisdale, Shetland ZE2 9LW

Blowup is an interactive installation that uses performers, or the audience, to bring itself alive. The real-time video projection manipulates movement and redistributes it on a large screen, distorting the size of body parts in accordance with how fast they are moving.

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CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
2nd Aug to 13th Sept 2008 / Tues to Sat 11am - 6pm

"Interesting, interactive. Excellent in comparison to other new media exhibitions across Europe"

Alt-w: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture, presents a selection of work from Scottish based artists whose practice has been supported by the Alt-w Fund. These works have been brought together for the first time in an exhibition curated by New Media Scotland in collaboration with CCA.

Simon Biggs & Sue Hawksley / Nicky Bird / Jaygo Bloom / Alison Clifford / Henry Cruickshank / Gregor Dewar & Mark Vernon / Gair Dunlop / Simon Fildes & Katrina McPhersonn / Beverley Wood / Matt Hulse / Zoe Irvine / Nigel Johnson / Kapwani Kiwanga & Alan Brown / Torsten Lauschmann / Donna Leishman / Mandy McIntosh / Holger Mohaupt / Iain Morrison / Jason Nelson / Dan Norton / Andy Rice & Bill Duncan / Simon Richardson / Chris Rowland / Mel Woods / Simon Yuill