Spirit Molecule I
ExhibitionCo-commissioned with LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery, this exhibition considers the protocols for propagation of genetically modified plants as memorials. →
LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery
School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. Old Hawkhill, DD1 5EHGenerative Art & Fractal Landscapes
WorkshopAs part of this years Dundee Science Festival join NEoN Digital Arts for a hands on workshop to explore generative art and fractal landscapes, using the aesthetics of digital images and algorithms to mimic nature. →
Dundee Science Centre
Greenmarket, DD1 4QBUCracking
ExhibitionNEoN Digital Arts Festival presents a series of prints called UCracking, by Marius Watz. This work takes as its starting point the triangle, an atomic unit of computational geometry. →
Dundee Science Centre Cafe
Greenmarket, DD1 4QBMonday - Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm
Animation & Digital Design
WorkshopAs part of the Festival of the Future join NEoN and Glasgow-based artist John Butler and experiment with futuristic clothing and character concepts, designing the work-wear of the future using 3D animation techniques. →
Bonar Hall
Park Place, DD1 4HWSaturday 20 October, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
“Flesh and Finitude”
ExhibitionGENERATORprojects exhibition aims to investigate the ‘posthuman condition’, the lifespan of human as we know it. →
GENERATORprojects
Unit 25-26 Mid Wynd Industrial EstateDD1 4JG
Thursday - Sunday, 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Being Radiotropic
ExhibitionEver get annoyed when your network connection drops out in elevators, old stone buildings or as you go through an underpass? Do you find yourself impatiently pacing around to reconnect the signal? →
Dundee Botanic Garden
Dundee Botanic Garden, Riverside Drive, DD2 1QHMonday - Thursday 10:00am - 3.30pm
Down the Rabbit Hole
ExhibitionJump down the rabbit hole and explore the mind-bending reality of spacetime in an installation based on Dundee’s most loved clock. →
Wellgate Shopping Centre
Unit 26, Level 3, Dundee, DD1 2DBTuesday – Saturday 10:00am – 5:00pm. Sunday 11:00am - 4:00pm. Closed Monday
Lifespans: Forever and Ever
ExhibitionThis group exhibition brings together works of gaming and design, alongside other hybrid creations that reflect on endlessness and the “hang time” of our digital lives. →
Wellgate Shopping Centre
Unit 9-11, Level 3, DD1 2DBTuesday – Saturday 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday 11:00am - 4:00pm
Closed Monday
Generations
ExhibitionA five channel video work for public space, Generations brings together videos made in roughly ten-year intervals, presenting two unintentional similarities. →
NOMAS* Project
9A Ward Road, DD1 1LPOpen 24/7
Xerox’s Paradox
ExhibitionA series of posters for public space by Glasgow based artist and animator, John Butler. →
Sharing Not Hoarding
Slessor GardensOpen 24/7
NEoN Activity Room & Information Hub
WorkshopA friendly space open for people of all ages to reflect, relax and refuel. Providing information about the whole festival. →
Wellgate Shopping Centre
Unit next to Iceland, Level 2, DD1 2DBTuesday – Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm. Sunday 11:00am - 4:00pm
We Need Us (2014 – ongoing)
ExhibitionWe Need Us is a living artwork, shaped by people and data. It is a real-time online artwork that explores the life of data. Unlike traditional data-visualisation which helps us make sense of information in large data sets. →
Sleeperz Hotel Dundee
2 South Union Street, DD1 4BFLobby accessible daily until 12:00am.
Para-site-seeing
ExhibitionWhat does lifespan mean for a parasite that reproduces as asexual clones and is revived after 30 years suspended in a deep frozen state? How far does the digital footprint of a parasite stretch online? →
Wellgate Shopping Centre
Unit next to Iceland, Level 2, DD1 2DBTuesday – Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm. Sunday 11:00am - 4:00pm
Making A Living From The Digital Arts
WorkshopInteractive workshop exploring how emerging technologies like smart machines, the internet of everywhere and blockchains might be used to help make this idea a reality. →
Innis & Gunn Beer Kitchen
10 South Tay Street, DD1 1PATuesday 6 November, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Pecha Kucha Night Dundee Vol 22
Talks/PanelPecha Kucha Nights run in over 1,000 cities around the world, and are a speedy way of hearing from people across the city and beyond! Join us to hear from a dozen speakers who have just 20 images and 20 seconds per image to tell their story! →
Dundee Rep
Tay Square, DD1 1PBTuesday 6 November, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Artists’ Shorts Screening Programme
ScreeningA curated series of national and international artists’ shorts reflecting the festival theme of Lifespans. →
George Orwell
168 Perth Rd, Dundee, DD1 4JSWednesday 7 November, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Citizen of Nowhere
Events, ExhibitionCitizen of Nowhere is a festival exploring how theatre can work with new technologies to respond to an increasingly fragmented world. →
Locations across the City
See the full programme for more detailsLifespans and Legacies – Professional Development Event
WorkshopThis SCAN/NEON event brings together artists and curators to talk about how digital impacts upon the lifespan and legacies of community engagement, artistic projects and individual art works. →
Dalhousie Building
Room 2G13, University of DundeeThursday 8 November, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Sistema Scotland & Tinderbox
PerformanceTaking inspiration from video games music, Tinderbox and Big Noise Douglas will improvise a new collaborative score. →
St. Peter’s Free Church
St. Peter's Street, DD1 4JJThursday 8 November, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Festival Walking Tour
Events, ExhibitionJoin us for a special tour of some of the highlights of the festival along with specially programmed performances. →
Various Locations
Across the city of DundeeThursday 8 November, 5:30pm - 10:00pm
Mini Symposium
Symposium, Talks/PanelThe mini symposium offers an 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. →
V&A Dundee
1 Riverside Esplanade, DD1 4EZFriday 9 November, 11:30am - 4:30pm
Atmosphere | Coco
ScreeningA family-friendly, literally jaw-dropping spectacle, that rightly won Disney Pixar the Academy Awards for both Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. There will be prizes for the best costumes, whichever side of the great divide inspires you, so seize your moment. →
Centrespace Gallery
Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, DD1 4DYFriday 9 November, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Awe and Animation
ExhibitionNEoN Digital Arts Festival is very excited to welcome Michael Frederickson, Lead Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios, to deliver a live-streamed talk following the Atmosphere screening of Coco. →
Centrespace Gallery
Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, DD1 4DYFriday 9 November, 8.30pm - 10.00pm
Wheelchair accessible
Sustain your errors
WorkshopA project in response to the scores and practices of musician David Cunningham. →
Centrespace Gallery
Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, DD1 4DYSaturday 10 November, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
NEoN at Night
PerformanceAs always NEoN celebrates its festival with a late night party. Acts include Art of the Memory Palace, NEoNs Resident DJ RHL alongside DJ Nina Stanger. →
Reading Rooms
57 Blackscroft, DD4 6ATSaturday 10 November, 9:00pm - 3:00am