Alison Clifford is an artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her work is concerned with defining notions of the interstitial – or in-between - through digital art. She is interested in processes of translation between different forms of media, considering the new creative possibilities that result from what is lost or gained through such interpretation.

Outputs include net-art, experimental film, interactive works and audiovisual installations. She has exhibited widely in various international new-media and electronic art festivals and exhibitions, and has received several prestigious awards and commissions. These include a BAFTA nomination for interactive media, a commission from SFMOMA, and recent inclusion in the second edition of the Electronic Literature Collection.

She is currently undertaking PhD study at Glasgow School of Art; prior to this she gained a Master in Digital Art from the Audiovisual Institute, University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), and an MA(Hons) in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh.

She lectures in Digital Art at the University of the West of Scotland and is a research associate at the Centre for Creative Futures.

Festivals/ Exhibitions/ Screenings:
2013 Abstract Movement
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Exhibition of Lux and Substratum
 
2013 Lumen Prize Exhibition
The Space Gallery, Hong Kong
Exhibition of Lux
 
2013 Lumen Prize Exhibition
FQ Projects, Shanghai
Exhibition of Lux
 
2013 Lumen Prize Exhibition
Robert's Books, Latvia
Exhibition of Lux
 
2013 Lumen Prize Exhibition
Gallery 27, London
Exhibition of Lux
 
2012 Sonica 2012 Free Flicks
Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Screening of Lux
 
2012 Orphans 2012 at Sound Festival of New Music
The Belmont Picturehouse, Aberdeen
Screening of Interstitial Articulations series: Substratum, Palimpsest and Lux
 
2012
 Hypersonica Event at FILE 2012 - Electronic Language International Festival
SESI Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Screening of Palimpsest
 
2012 9th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Exhibition of Substratum and Palimpsest
 
2012 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation
University of Montpellier, France
Exhibition of Substratum and Palimpsest
 
2012 Electrifying Literature: Affordances and Constraints, Electronic Literature Organization Media Art Show
The Art Museum of West Virginia University, USA
Exhibition of Palimpsest and Substratum
 
 
2012 Lightworks 2012 - Annual International Arts Festival
Grimsby Minster, Grimsby, UK
Exhibition of Substratum
 
2011 GA2011 XIV Generative Art International Conference
Rome, Italy
Presentation and Screening of Palimpsest
 
2011 Seeing Sound 2
Centre for Musical Research, Bath Spa University
Screening of Palimpsest
 
2011 "Third Hand Plays" series at SFMOMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Online Exhibition of Palimpsest
 
2011 Hypersonica Event at FILE - Electronic Language International Festival
SESI Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Screening of Substratum
 
2011 Soledades 2.0 No Moderno Artificio
Centro de Arte Pepe Espaliú, Córdoba, Spain
Exhibition and presentation of The Sweet Old Etcetera
 
2011 Sound Thought 2011
The Arches, Glasgow
Exhibition of Substratum
 
2010 GA2010 XIII Generative Art International Conference
Politecnico di Milano University, Milan, Italy
Exhibition and presentation of Substratum
 
2010 "Half-knowledge/ Half..."
Grace & Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow School of Art
Exhibition of Trace and Equilibrium
 
2008 Alt-W: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture
Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Exhibition of The Sweet Old Etcetera
 
2008 FILE Symposium Rio 2008
OI FUTURO Cultural Centre, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Symposium/ Presentation of The Sweet Old Etcetera
 
2007 FILE - Electronic Language International Festival
SESI Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Exhibition of The Sweet Old Etcetera
 
2006 VAD International Video Art Festival
Casa de Cultura de Girona, Girona, Spain
Exhibition of The Sweet Old Etcetera
 
2006 Zebra Poetry Film Award
Berlin, Germany
Exhibition of The Sweet Old Etcetera
 
2004 FILE - Electronic Language International Festival
SESI Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Exhibition of [citizen]
 
2003 Computer Space
Sofia, Bulgaria
Exhibition of [citizen]
 
2003 Lancaster Film and New Media Festival
Folly, Lancaster, UK
Exhibition of [citizen]
 
2001 ArtFutura 2001
Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain
Exhibition of [citizen]
 
2001 Concerts MOSART
Institut de l'Audiovisual, Barcelona, Spain
Live performance/ diffusion of [citizen]
 
   

Awards/ Commissions:
2012 Lumen Prize International Award for Digital Art
Lux Shortlisted Final 20

2011 SFMOMA Open Space (USA)
Commission for Palimpsest
 
2006 Born Magazine (USA)
Commission for Silhouette: A Dance
 
2006 BAFTA nomination Best Interactive Media
Awarded for The Sweet Old Etcetera
 
2005 Alt-W/ Scottish Digital Media Fund
Production Award for The Sweet Old Etcetera
 
2002 International Competition of Electro-acoustic Music and Sonic Art, Bourges, France
Finalist Multimedia Category for [citizen]
 
1999 Creative Scholarship, PHONOS Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Production Award/ Residency for [citizen]