Alt-w | Infinite Order

Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Leigh Bagley
leighbagley.com

30th October 2026 to 29th January 2027. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

What happens when a graphic system originally designed to organise time becomes a mechanism for generating the experience of time? Inspired by French designer Jean-Pierre Vitrac's iconic perpetual wall calendar, this new moving-image artwork transforms its graphic structure into a chronographic animation that explores pattern and rhythm.

Leigh Bagley

Alt-w | Necessary Disorder

Cycle 16 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Étienne Jacob
bleuje.com

1st September to 28th November 2026. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Built using algorithms, mathematics and digital processes, these animations embrace the creative constraints of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF). They can be enjoyed without explanation, while revealing extraordinary complexity beneath their elegant simplicity.

Alt-w | The Marks Left Behind

Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Dave Bowes
efi.ed.ac.uk/creative-work

3rd August to 29th October 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

Every building holds stories written through countless everyday encounters. Over time, these fleeting moments become part of the building itself. This hidden history is found in the marks left behind. Together, these accumulated imprints tell an evolving story of the people who have inhabited this place, now transformed into a living artwork.

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