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Alt-w | Artifacts of Life
Alt-w Exhibition Award - Eena Daou
layerframe.co
2nd April to 1st June 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS
Ancient folklore around the world infer that everything has a spirit or essence. The Romans named the protective spirit of a place, Genus Loci. In Scotland many bodies of water were worshipped as deities. In Aberdeen, the River Dee's name was derived from the word ‘deva’, meaning goddess but what spirits lie beneath the surface of our waters now?
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Alt-w | The Shape of Sound
Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Bright Side Studios
brightsidestudios.co.uk
9th Jan to 30th March 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS
German scientist Ernst Chladni (1756-1827) was a pioneer of experimental acoustics. One of his inventions was a technique to study the motions of vibrating metal plates. In this exploration of 'Cymatics', the science of visualising audio frequencies, Bright Side Studios will reveal the visual patterns of audio by experimenting with a Chlandi Plate.
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Alt-w | Moving On
Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - KMG
www.kmgyeah.com
17th February to 13th March 2024.
Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL
The artist KMG unleashed her multi-eyed character ‘Ken’ onto Aberdeen's Music Hall screen in 2023. Now at the Visual Arts Scotland centenary exhibition the character is seen skateboarding, surfing and riding a fox no less. An unmistakable combination, filled with playful enthusiasm.
KMG's work explores themes ranging from the precarious to the mundane, with often quite subversive results. A weird and wonderful combination of curiosity mixed with utter cynicism leaves her work with a surreal and sarcastic tone. Her belief in the power of accessible art is unshakeable.
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Alt-w Fund
The application deadline has now passed.
Initiated in Dundee by Scottish Screen, the Alt-w Fund is for practitioners based in Scotland to make and develop new artworks, devices and creative applications that challenge the notions of what new media creativity can be.
The fund supports artists to explore experimental and interactive practice, make use of technology as both medium and message, and recognise the changing role that digital culture has in our society.
Cycle 15 of the fund will commission and curate work for presentation on the 4.5m high LED screen that welcomes every visitor to the refurbished Music Hall in Aberdeen. The deadline for applications is the 17th March 2023 at 6pm.
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Alt-w | ...in place of what is here and endures
Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award - Theodore Koterwas
theodorekoterwas.com
23rd & 24th Feb 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS
The project reframes our relationship to the real and virtual. Using machine learning, slowly morphing images of granite are shown in close up, accompanied by music generated from local news feeds and comprised from the sounds of the physical labour that built Aberdeen: metal striking stone. To hear the music, take a seat and press your head back.
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Alt-w | Living Lithograph
Cycle 15 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Lindsey Carr
lindseycarrart.com
4th July to 2nd September 2023. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS
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 premiere at the Music Hall. 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 | Dream Visualiser
Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Luci Holland
luciholland.com
31st Oct 2023 to 6th January 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS
Generative animation by Aberdeen-born composer and conductor Luci Holland representing the phases of activity our brain's experience during sleep, created in partnership with neuroscience researcher Narelle Freeman, who is also a musician. Neurological and diary data become a liquid dreamscape, visualising the five stages of human sleep.
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Alt-w | a space for encapsulation
Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Andrey Chugunov
andreychugunov.com
5th Sept to 28th Oct 2023. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS
This project explores the coastal areas of Scotland where industrial and natural structures have become interwoven. These areas, where life began the evolutionary journey from ocean to land, are at risk due to rising water levels. This anthropogenic impact on the coast is highlighted by the artist via photogrammetry of the emerging assemblages.
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Alt-w | Cycle 15
Production Awards
- Andrey Chugunov
a space for encapsulation - Bright Side Studios
The Shape of Sound - KMG
Moving On - Luci Holland
Dream Visualiser
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Alt-w | Chronoscope
Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Robert Powell with Louise Wild
@robert_powell_artist
1st November 2022 to 7th January 2023
. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS
The chronoscope is designed to not only tell the time but also convey how, why and what time really is. As each slender slither of time bursts into being, the chronoscope gauges the exact nature of that particular moment and visualises it. (It is no wonder that the chronoscope sometimes runs a little slow.)
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