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Alison Clifford

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Selected exhibitions, screenings, residencies, and publications

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Selected Highlights
• Third Hand Plays, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Open Space), USA (2011)
• FILE Festival, São Paulo, Brazil (2004–2014, selected editions)
• Abstract Movement, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (2013)
• Lumen Prize Exhibition (Hong Kong; Shanghai; Latvia; London) (2013)
• Paraules Pixelades, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain (2016)
• Electronic Literature Collection, vol.2,  USA (2011)

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Residencies
• The Bridge Awards Residency, Cove Park, Scotland (2025)
Developing new work in experimental animation and moving image
• PHONOS Foundation Residency, Barcelona, Spain (1999)
Development of early work in digital and sound-based media

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Exhibitions & Screenings (Selected)

2016–2013
• La Palabra en las Periferias de la Tecnología, Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain (2016)
• Shapeshifting Texts Exhibition, University of Bremen, Germany (2016)
• xCoAx 2016, GAMEC, Bergamo, Italy (2016)
• Paraules Pixelades, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain (2016)
• Plataformas de la Imaginación, Universum Museo de las Ciencias, Mexico City (2015)
• FILE Festival, Centro Cultural FIESP/SESI, São Paulo, Brazil (2012–2014)
• Seeing Sound 3, Bath Spa University, UK (2013)
• Abstract Movement, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (2013)
• Lumen Prize Exhibition (Hong Kong; Shanghai; Latvia; London) (2013)

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2012–2008
• Sonica, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK (2012)
• Orphans, Sound Festival of New Music, Aberdeen, UK (2012)
• International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation, Taiwan (2012)
• International Conference on Information Visualisation, Montpellier, France (2012)
• ELO Media Art Show, West Virginia University Art Museum, USA (2012)
• Lightworks, Grimsby Minster, UK (2012)
• Alt-W: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture, CCA Glasgow, UK (2008)
• FILE Symposium Rio, Oi Futuro Cultural Centre, Brazil (2008)

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2007–2001
• FILE Festival, São Paulo, Brazil (2007)
• Zebra Poetry Film Award, Berlin, Germany (2006)
• VAD International Video Art Festival, Girona, Spain (2006)
• ArtFutura, Barcelona, Spain (2001)
• Lancaster Film & New Media Festival, UK (2003)
• Computer Space, Sofia, Bulgaria (2003)
• Concerts MOSART, Institut de l’Audiovisual, Barcelona, Spain (2001)

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Awards & Commissions
• BAFTA nomination, Best Interactive Media (The Sweet Old Etcetera) (2006)
• Commission, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Palimpsest) (2011)
• Lumen Prize International Award for Digital Art (Shortlisted, Top 10) (2012)
• Alt-W / Scottish Digital Media Fund, Production Award (2005)
• Born Magazine Commission (Silhouette: A Dance) (2006)
• Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music (Finalist) (2002)
• PHONOS Foundation Creative Scholarship & Residency, Barcelona (1999)

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Publications (Selected)

Writing & Research
• Articulating the Interstitial: Exploring the Aesthetics of Transience, NUI Galway (2018)
• Articulating the Interstitial: Interpretive Responses in Digital Art Practice (PhD thesis, Glasgow School of Art) (2014)

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Edited Volumes / Proceedings
• xCoAx Conference Proceedings (2015, 2016)
• CITAR Journal (Special Issues) (2015, 2016)

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Creative & Critical Publications
• The Sweet Old Etcetera, Atticus Review (2012)
• .Cent Magazine, Poetry in Motion (2012)
• Musiques & Cultures Digitales (2012)
• Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus (2007)

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Selected Writing & Critical Reception
• Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 2 (2011)
• John Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (2014)
• Electronic Book Review (2013)
• Contemporary Literature (2011)
• Acta Universitatis Sapientiae (2015)
• Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (2010)

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Talks, Presentations & Interviews (Selected)
• Transient Topographies, National University of Ireland, Galway (2018)
• GA Conference on Generative Art, Rome & Milan (2010–2011)
• Soledades 2.0, Córdoba, Spain (2011)
• TrAce Online Writing Centre (2005)

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