The Weather Makers is the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Canadian artist Kelly Richardson. Richardson creates hyper-real digital films of rich and complex landscapes that have been manipulated using CGI, animation and sound. →

The exhibitions brings together four artistic investigations that re-evaluate established methods of financial exchange bestowing new material values and identities to their subjects. In a landscape where monetary currency is pinnacle, the artists interrogate notions of personal and individual history, locality and its impact in identity and the framework that contains our cultural objects. →

In The Petroleum Manga, each banner represents oil-derived things, organized by the specific petrochemical that informed their fabrication, inspired by Hokusai’s thirteen volume set of manga, a loose collection of objects arranged loosely by type. →

An exhibition of images created from 3D digital scans of historic specimens from the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum. The digital reconstructions can also be experienced online via the University’s Sketchfab account, and downloaded to create 3D prints. →

This intervention-exhibition presents artworks and installations across the galleries and public spaces of the McManus and the Mills Observatory. →

Produced using a combination of photogrammetry, LIDAR scanning and digital reconstruction the team at DJCAD’s 3DVisLab invite you to explore Dundee’s lost architecture through augmented reality in at the former site of the Royal Arch in Slessor Gardens. →

A collection of small plastic figurines of Christ the Redeemer, the iconic statue in Rio, Brazil, in the guise of tourist souvenirs. The 3D printed figurines were made from the many electronic traces of the real monument – found videos or promotional footage – processed using 3D scanning software. →

A data-visualization of meteorite impact data etched into stone at different locations on the Earth. Using data provided by Peter Jenniskens at the SETI Institute, Kildall wrote custom algorithms that created files specific for a high-pressure waterjet cutting machine.  →

An overview of do-it-yourself Wi-Fi antennas, constructed from a combination of pots and pans, dishes and cans through which people from around the world give shape to their collective dream of creating an alternative networks. →

An instructional artwork – a poetry machine that uses the human genome like a music score to play back a self-assembling video montage spanning the thirteen years it took the Human Genome Project to complete the first documented human DNA sequence. Commissioned by LifeSpace with support from the Wellcome Trust, and loaned from the collection of →

Soft Synthetic Rocks are not usually found in nature. They are subject of prototyping and imagination. The archetype comes from geology where fluorescence is due to failure or defect in the periodic structure of the solid rock. →

The Museum of Alternative History (MAH) features documentation, texts and selected objects from artist Timothy Guthrie’s ambitious project developed in response to ongoing denigration of facts and history in the United States. →

Artist and activist, Joseph de Lappe, likes making trouble. From hacking drones to selling despotic dictators on eBay, nothing is off limits, as he uses his over 30 years’ experience in online gaming and sculpture to create installations that react to modern politics and warfare. →

We will be joining Pecha Kucha Night Dundee Vol 19 for our festival warm up! →

This talk, part of the programme celebrating the centenary of D’Arcy Thompson’s book ‘On Growth and Form’, considers how the writing of code has been used to draw since digital computing technology became accessible to artists from the mid-1960s. →

A curated series of national and international artists’ shorts reflecting the festival theme. →

A performance, presentation and discussion on the theme of memory generated through artworks selected from the REWIND Artists Video Archive and research project EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s. →

Records and Wireframes presents moving image works by artists Paul Dolan (UK) and Paul Walde (Canada) alongside skeletal remains of the extinct Tasmanian Tiger, on loan from the collection of the University of Dundee’s D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum. Curated for NEoN by artist Kelly Richardson to accompany her exhibition at DCA, ‘The Weather Makers’, ‘Records and Wireframes’ explores themes around climate change and screen culture with allusions to the past, present and future. →

An evening event of multidisciplinary presentations in response to The Weather Makers, with invited guest artist Tom deMajo. →

This group exhibition – the central programme of NEoN – will show how digital art and technology is materially understood now and will be in the future. →

Used, broken or otherwise discarded computer mice, woven into a growing spiral, inspired by thoughts of contemporary cubicle work cultures. →

Artist William Miller’s series of work, ‘The Ruined Polaroid’, results from his use of a broken Polaroid SX-70 camera. →

The site-specific installation ‘Bruit Blanc’ is an aesthetic reflection on the existing discipline of sound archaeology. →

The Zeitgeber (‘time giver’ or ‘synchroniser’) is honoured here by a triadic henge of stacked CRT monitors in which past durations collide with future vacuums. →

This slide projection documents the lifecycle of GeoCities web pages, the now-defunct web hosting service. GeoCities was founded in July 1994 by “Beverly Hills Internet” and quickly became one of the most popular hosting services on the web. →

A three-dimensional photogrammetric amalgamation of abandoned shopping malls, digitally reconstructed from youtube videos taken prior to the sites’ destruction. →

An art and archaeology project working with the story of a house buried in five industrial spoil heaps, known as the Five Sisters. →

A stunning collection of domestic uranium glassware, displayed behind glass and illuminated by ultraviolet light. →

Clickmine is a hyperinflationary ERC-20 token that is minted by a clicking game. Clicking games, like cookie clicker and cow clicker, are the reductio ad absurdum of a ‘game’ (brutalist with a sense of humour).  →

Artist/curator/researcher Patrick Lichty has been investigating the history of Slow Scan Television. He will present his project “The Night Before Tomorrow/Duntoria 2017 – A telematic performance” described as part of “24 Hours Later”, inspired by Robert Adrian X. →

David Hall’s video sculpture represented in virtual reality: A Situation Envisaged: The Rite II (Cultural Eclipse), 1988-1990. Come experience the works by being immersed in a life-sized ‘VIRTUAL Hall’ or gallery, to appreciate how media art works are at risk of obsolescence due to their use of CRT monitors. →

A video work about standardisation. Mr. Anthony, from the German Institute for Standardisation, describes their services, aims and origins. At the same time, the concept of standardisation is elucidated by visualising some standards of video technology. →

‘Material Speculation: ISIS’ is a project of 3D modeling and 3D printing focused on the reconstruction of 12 selected (original) artifacts (statues from the Roman period city of Hatra and Assyrian artifacts from Nineveh) that were destroyed by ISIS in 2015. →

Join visiting artists William Miller (USA) and Paul Walde (Canada) for a discussion about artistic strategies that use digital media to capture both the present moment, the past and the future. Chaired by Dr Sonia Fizek (Poland), a games and digital media researcher at Abertay University.
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Debuting the NEoN Activity Room, a cosy space in West Ward Works open for people of all ages to reflect, relax and refuel. →

The mini symposium offers a unique opportunity for artists, academics, critics, theorists and practitioners to reflect on the current state of digital and new media art, and the wider theme of the festival. →

NEoN Walking Tour / Panel Discussion and Reception

As part of NEoN Digital Arts Festival, SCAN invites you to join a hosted tour of some participating galleries and spaces in Dundee (from 2:15pm-6pm) and a panel discussion (from 6pm-7:30pm). Join for one or both! →

‘Modern Times’ depicts the struggle to preserve humanity in a modern, mechanised world. The comedic mayhem that ensues has ensured that this remains one of Chaplin’s greatest and most enduring works. →

As part of her project, Petroleum Manga, artist Marina Zurkow invites you to up-cycle her art work in this hands-on workshop. →

Come and be amazed by our selection of historical stereographs, see them through a Victorian style stereoscope, an early 60’s classic or use NYPL Labs Stereogranimator, a tool for transforming historical stereographs from into shareable 3D web formats. →

Taking inspiration from Roscam Abbings ‘Pretty Fly For A Wi-Fi’ project, this workshop show participants how to construct their own do-it-yourself Wi-Fi antennas using locally sourced materials. →

This workshop for artists, technologists and theorists with Ruth Catlow takes a pragmatic approach to building technical and economic capacity in the arts starting with the arts lab. →

Make your own Future Fossil with Dundee Ceramics Workshop, inspired by Future Artifacts – intervention of objects hidden amongst the collections of McManus and Mills Observatory. →

As always NEoN celebrates its festival with a late night party. Acts include Plastique Fantastique, Verity Brit & Musician U, Fallope & The Tubes and Resident DJ RHL. →

A media archaeological themed Dungeons & Dragons mission with Jenny Heubeck (Ahoy Comics), Robin Griffiths (Melophius) & the NEoN Crew.
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Sunday Morning story & gallery play with actor & storyteller Thomas Sloan reading from Hello Ruby, with creative activies to keep little hands busy. (with coffee for the grown-ups). Suited to age 5 and under, older siblings are very welcome.  →

Design and draw your own Petroleum Manga character, inspired by Petroleum Manga by Marina Zurkow (USA). →

ATARI: GAME OVER documents the creation and termination of the “worst video game ever,” the ET game for Atari. After the ET game was produced, it was savaged by users and critics so strongly that the company scooped up all the copies of the fiasco and buried them in a landfill. So the theory goes… →