Hidden Experiences of Breast Cancer Treatment
Why Do Women Still Have To Fight For Answers About Their Health? Mammary Mountain, a research project by Tara Baoth Mooney, Maf’j Alvarez & Camille Baker Can you help us develop a new interactive experience to tell the stories of women’s healthcare struggles, particularly on the hidden experiences of breast cancer treatment? Mammary Mountain is →
Configure-Able Infrastructures
NEoN is excited to work with George Simms and invites you to ‘Configure-Able Infrastructures’, a series of online workshops exploring care and self-exploration enabled through life-affirming infrastructures. We will be joined by Melt (Ren Britton & Iz Paehr) to explore incendiary emails for change-making and SysterServer (Ai Carmela & OOOOO) to discuss the anarcha feminist →
The Lack: I knew your voice before you spoke. A conversation with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
With this ambitious new commission, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley alerts us to meteoric gulfs in the world as we know it. The earth has changed and the choices we make now will reconstruct how we navigate it. Presented at the historic Arthurstone Library in Stobswell, Brathwaite-Shirley presents an art video game that allows audiences to interact and →
A is for afterimage
A is for Afterimage by Anne Colvin In collaboration with Federation Gallery and NEoN Digital Arts. Supported by Creative Scotland. Set within the Keiller in Dundee–a 1970’s brutalist shopping centre–a series of elemental interventions explore the space as temporal site. In between the underused spaces, you find a newsstand, phone, homeware, and clothes shops, a →
OF SECRET CINEMAS
In 2004, French authorities discovered a film theatre sequestered in the Paris catacombs. The theatre is said to have boasted a bar, a small kitchen, and a substantial selection of cinema – but when the police returned to conduct their official investigation, everything had been stripped away. There remained only a short note left behind →
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Articulating Data: vocalisation, machine listening, and the (in)security of language in a digital age A 2-day single track →
Merging, blurring, entangling: an interview with Libby Heaney
Last year, artist and physicist Libby Heaney delivered a series of workshops with NEoN, which explored themes and motifs in her artistic practice. She speaks to Bilyana Palankasova about quantum and belief systems, plurality and speculation in her work. Bilyana Palankasova: Shall we start by talking about your position as a post-disciplinary artist and what →
Art Night Announcement
📣Art Night Announce 10 Major commissions, venues and wider programme plans for Dundee this Summer!📣 This summer Art Night will deliver its first full iteration in a city outside London. On the evening of June 24th, from 7pm until late, ten major commissions by internationally significant artists and more emergent artists will be presented in →
Art Night Dundee
Internationally renowned contemporary art festival Art Night is coming to Dundee. Over one packed weekend, organisers will present ten major new commissions in civic spaces across the city by internationally significant and emerging artists. The free festival will be brought to Dundee in partnership with Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). The scheduled date is the evening →
GEEK GIRLS, the “hidden half” of fan culture
As part of the Dundee Women’s Festival, NEoN is screening GEEK GIRLS, a film by Gina Hara. When →
Soundwalks for Climate Change
Dundee Climate Fund has accepted NEoN’s proposal for collaboration with Dundee Sound Collective and has moved to public →
hotel generation open call
hotel generation is a yearly UK-wide development programme shortlisting 5 young digital artists, each one based in North, →
International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike
Wednesday 8 March 2023 ✨ On 8th of March 2023, we call for a Counter Cloud Action Day. On this day, we will try to withhold from using, feeding, or caring for The Big Tech Cloud. The strike calls for a hyperscaledown of extractive digital services, and for an abundance of collective organising. We join →
NEoN Digital Reforms
This year has seen many changes at NEoN, and we will have many more next year. We are committed to exploring new ways of working that help us develop and implement new strategies that emphasise collaborative, collective, and communal approaches. As part of our ongoing work on the Counter Cloud Action Plan, titipi.org introduced us →
The Magic Circle
Examining gender-based violence through tabletop roleplay games by Tanya Floaker Most mainstream tabletop role-play games (ttRPGs) have their family tree lead back to the combination of wargaming and fantasy fiction which spawned Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). However, roots can be found further back in a wide range of parlour games and structured group storytelling activities. →