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How to make a GIF using GIMP software

The NEoN logo in red. To the right hand side of the logo is an illustration of a person shouting the word”Volunteer” to a group of illustrated people who are holding placards that look like bar codes.

Making a GIF can be fun, but a lot of people aren’t sure how to make one. Here’s our handy step-by-step guide, made by our...

DJCAD Masters Show 2019 Review: Guided With Touch

Group of people in a white,dimly lit room, watching a person who is in the middle of the room lifting a white model of a torso with a rope and pulley system.

How do I even start to determine the quality of a particular work of art? Versions of this question bounced around in my head as...

Dundee Sound-Artist Nominated For SAY Award

Andrew Wasylyk standing by a wall. In the background is a housing estate.

Andrew Wasylyk, who formerly performed and exhibited at NEoN digital arts festival, has been nominated for the SAY Award. The award is given annually to...

Call for submissions: poster exhibition

Photograph of a person standing in front of a graffiti board holding the NEoN REACT logo in front of their face.

Announcing Street poster Open Call! NEoN Digital Arts Festival are offering an opportunity for up to three emerging Dundee-based artists to exhibit poster works across...

NEoN Digital Arts Festival Announces Flagship Artist Steve Lambert

Artist Steve Lambert standing in front of a large sign,which reads, “Capitalism”, in white writing. Underneath this sign is another sign which reads “Is it for me?”, in white writing on a blue background.

A tide of change is sweeping across the globe — from immigration to the rise in nationalism — socio-political landscapes are increasingly subject to crisis....

Dare Academy Play Party

Three people in front of a computer screen.

The standard of games at this year’s Dare Academy Play Party was very high, as members of the public crowded into the showcase event for...

Patrick Staff: The Prince of Homburg

During ‘The Prince of Homburg’, the central video piece of the exhibition of the same name from Patrick Staff showing at Dundee Contemporary Arts this...

Extinction Rebellion & Dundee City Council

Extinction Rebellion Protesters holding a large white banner which reads,” Climate and Ecological Emergency ACT NOW”.

As NEoN’s theme this year is React we’ve been looking at some ways that ordinary people in Dundee are reacting to global political issues like...

Call for Submissions – Augmented Reality Art Commission

React Theme. REACT written in large black letters with the NEoN logo in red.

Augmented Reality Art Commission, NEoN Digital Arts Festival: REACT Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2019 For exhibition beginning: 4 November 2019 Artist Fee £2000 (inclusive...

Freedom of Movement

Two pages of an open passport. The left hand page is light green in colour and the words ” Your discovery was my land My land is your borders”, are written in black. The page on the right has the words ” United Nations Convention of 28 July 1951 ” written in small writing. Underneath

NEoN’s theme this year is React, and so we’ve been anticipating this year’s Refugee Festival Scotland with interest. We spoke to Iranian artist and photographer...

Para-Site-Seeing: Departure Lounge

A person holding a small ‘Newspaper’ with the word “Unleished” written in large black letters. Underneath, are the words, “A global history of Leishmania, 150,000,000 BC – 2019”, written in smaller black writing. Underneath this writing are various articles.

If you were at last year’s NEoN digital arts festival you might have visited the ‘cellfie’ booth to take a picture with some large-scale cardboard...

Realised By Artists

A small,off white,felt pencil case. Written in large black letters are the words,” Art,Matters!”. Dotted around the pencil case are various pin badges.

Did you know an artist wrote the code for what became Twitter so that protesters at a 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston could communicate...