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NEoN lights up 2024

19th December 2024

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Talking Political Art With Joseph DeLappe

A computer generated image of a dead or dying soldier,lying down in a courtyard with a fountain and palm trees.

We spoke to NeoN co-curator Joseph DeLappe, a former exhibiting artist at the festival, who is in the process of planning this year’s symposium. Much...

Review: Suffer The Workers scratch night

A group of people with microphones standing in front of a screen which is showing an image of a statue. The statue is in two halves and is situated in what looks like an empty carpark.

Dundee tales were a highlight of Suffer The Workers playwriting scratch night at Cooper Gallery on Thursday 24 January. To tie into the Phil Collins...

Review: Sistema Scotland & Tinderbox Performance

A school child being helped,by an adult,to conduct a group of schoolchildren playing violins and cellos. In the background is a large,seated audience of people.

Youth orchestra Tinderbox collaborated with Sistema Scotland’s Big Noise Douglas Project to deliver an enjoyable evening for the whole family on Thursday 8 November. With...

Thank you volunteers!

Two people in a white room, one standing the other crouching, with various cleaning materials.

As this year’s festival draws to a close we just want to take a moment to thank our wonderful volunteers, without whom the festival would...

Review: Coco Screening “a child friendly, toe-tapping journey”

Child dressed up in Day of the Dead style make up.

The cinema screen was festooned in a garland of bright orange petals, a fixture of Mexico’s traditional Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead...

How would you interpret this principle? Sustain Your Errors 

Sustain your errors is a series of workshops and events re-interpreting a set of ideas by artist and musician David Cunningham first used for his 1976 album...

Fictional Tales of Imaginary Lifespans

A seated audience in a dark room,illuminated by an unseen object, maybe a cinema screen.

Beginning with a writhing naked woman, the NEoN Artists’ Shorts Screening Programme was a cosy affair which took place in a packed George Orwell on...

Last chance to see AL and AL’s “new nativity”

A person in a large white room,bathed in red light, looking at a column of bright white light.

There’s only a few days left to see AL and AL’s specially commissioned work as part of NEoN digital arts festival’s ‘take over’ of the...

Pecha Kucha Night Dundee Vol 22

A person walking up some steps in an audatorium full of people.In the background is a stage with a large screen.

Kung fu, Brazil, alcohol festooned string trails, dinosaurs, fractals and roller derby: it was one of those nights where you could find yourself talking about...

Review – Citizen of Nowhere

Three people sitting in a room wearing white VR head sets.

I toss the teddy bear from side to side with my blocky virtual reality hands as I sit on a bed I know is not...

Review: ‘Being Radiotropic’

A green plant with white flowers sits in a square concrete pot. This plant pot has a black wire and what looks like a microphone coming out of it, and is sitting on a black plinth.

Unfortunately the day I visit Tega Brain’s exhibition ‘Being Radiotropic’ there’s a new moon and I can’t connect to the WiFi. The frustration I feel...

Travel Blogging with the Leishmania Parasite

Para-site-seeing is a travel blogging portal for the Leishmania parasite, created by Jen Southern and Rod Dillon and co-commissioned with NEoN and the Wellcome Centre for...