Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - David Bellingham
@davidbellingham_

4th June to 3rd August 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

As part of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Peacock, the printmaking workshop based in Aberdeen, we've co-commissioned a new piece of animated work for the Music Hall by Glasgow and Copenhagen-based artist, printmaker and publisher David Bellingham.

Bellingham's work is poetic and concise. He uses a diverse range of media, from painting and sculptural installation to books, postcards and other printed material, to explore the relationships between objects, words and contexts, often inverting our preconceptions about them.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Eena Daou
layerframe.co

1st June to 29th August 2026. 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?

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.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Exhibition Award - Lindsey Carr
lindseycarrart.com

4th February to 3rd April 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

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 Edinburgh Futures Institute. Organisms on screen are generated by machine learning and animated using latent space interpolation to calculate the best trajectory between each.

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.

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.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - Andrey Chugunov
andreychugunov.com

3rd June to 31st July 2026. FREE
Level 2, EFI, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF

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.

Cycle 15 Alt-w Production Award - KMG
www.kmgyeah.com

6th August to 5th October 2024. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

The artist KMG first unleashed her multi-eyed character ‘Ken’ onto Aberdeen's streets as part of Nuart in 2021. Now back at the Music Hall, the ever charismatic 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.

Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award -
Robert Powell
@robert_powell_artist

1st August to 2nd November 2025
. FREE
Edinburgh Printmakers, 1 Dundee Street EH3 9FP

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.)

Cycle 14 Alt-w Production Award - Donna Leishman
6amhoover.com

5th September to 29th October 2022
. FREE
Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen AB10 1QS

A contemporary play on the ‘Carta Marina,’ the late middle age marine map created in 1532 by the Swedish theologist and cartographer Olaus Magnus. In this work Leishman is interested in playing with the speculative freedom of the so-called ‘dark ages’ and how this resonates today in our post-truth, image saturated and polarized culture(s).