Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Olesya Ilenok
ilenok.art

May 3rd to July 30th 2027. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

A sequence of site-specific moving-image works for Aberdeen and Edinburgh that combine computational text generation with digital landscapes. Poetic interventions rooted in each city’s literary heritage and urban context are generated using a Markov Chain algorithm, a mathematical system that models sequences of possible events.

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.

Production Awards

• Daira Ronzoni
  Cosmic Ch’ixi
• Dave Bowes
  The Marks Left Behind
• David Cass
  Till
• Donna Wilson
  YOU CAN'T DO IT .......YETi
• Leigh Bagley
  Infinite Order
• Olesya Illnok
  Wall_for_scroll

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.

Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award - Donna Wilson
www.donnawilson.com

1st December 2026 to 30th January 2027. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

Created from colourful knitted textiles and paper, this stop-motion animation follows a giant Yeti as they confront self-doubt and attempt to cycle up a steep mountain range. Hand-embroidered facial expressions bring Yeti’s emotions to life. Rich in humour and optimism, the work celebrates the power of believing in yourself.

Cycle 16 Alt-w Production Award -
David Cass with Sam Healy
davidcass.art

3rd June to 26th July 2025. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

What happens at Earth’s poles affects us all; combined, they are our planet’s thermostat. Loss of ice in these places has a direct impact on our seas globally; and weather, perhaps the principal consideration for all who go to sea, becomes increasingly unpredictable.

This generative artwork explores global warming and ice-melt, with the 2025 Tall Ships Races as an anchor.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Staunch Industries
staunchindustries.com

3rd December 2024 to 31st March 2025. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

An invitation to journey - an exploration of landscapes both familiar and fantastical, guided by the unbroken flow of a pure white line against a vast black canvas. Each element - a castle perched on a winding path, a lone tree, a wave curling into the unknown - represents a place of potential, an anchor in this visual narrative of discovery.