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.  At the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow from 2 August to 13 September, the exhibition brings together these works for the first time in an interactive exhibition curated by New Media Scotland in collaboration with the CCA. 

Works to be exhibited include:

Blowup by Simon Biggs and Sue Hawksley, an installation which captures, processes and streams a live video feed from a camera which visitors to the gallery will be able to play and interact with. 

Broken Glass Harp by Simon Richardson, presents an interactive piece that allows the audience to improvise music on a photograph of broken glass. 

Mandy Mcintosh’s Sun Bed City offers a coarse, humorous tour around the rough edge tanning salons of Glasgow and Tokyo. 

The Possession of Christian Shaw by Donna Leishman, is an interactive installation based on a famous Scottish case of demonic possession.

Nigel Johnson's A-Life allows viewers to create and evolve life forms on an interactive LED screen.

Nicky Bird’s Question for Seller used the internet auction site Ebay to create a collection of photographs.  The purchased photographs were then collected into a book and resold – blind – in an auction on Ebay. 

Zoe Irvine’s Magnetic Migration Music, a physical interactive tape mixing desk which allows the audience to browse an archive of found tape fragments, re-spool them and explore their sounds while developing their own narrative.

Site of the Day will offer themed programs of selected works from the Alt-w archive, which will repeat throughout the run of the show, offering visitors a chance to really get inside the works and experience them fully.

The complete lists of artists who will be shown in the exhibition includes:

Simon Biggs, Sue Hawksley, Nicky Bird, Jaygo Bloom, Alison Clifford, Henry Cruickshank, Gregor Dewar, Mark Vernon, Gair Dunlop, Simon Fildes, Katrina McPherson, Beverley Hood, 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 and Simon Yuill.

Download the exhibition interpretation here
Download the exhibition guide here

View the live Blowup performance from the Alt-w opening night:



Initiated by Scottish Screen in 2000, 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 networked or web-based digital creativity can be.  The 2008 awards are supported by Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council and this year the focus of the fund is to support projects which dynamically engage audiences beyond the screen.

Since inception the fund has supported over sixty innovative projects.

The distribution of Alt-w awards is managed by New Media Scotland and funded by Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council.

www.alt-w.com
www.mediascot.org