Festival Information
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position
Exhibition, HighlightsA series of digital collages titled Assuming the Ecosexual Position by Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle. →
Sharing Not Hoarding
Slessor Garden, Dundee, DD1 3RSMonday 1 - 30 November, open 24/7
Please be aware this is an outdoor exhibition. There are drop-curbs and the ground and paving are level.
Water Makes us Wet with Q&A
Highlights, Screening“Water Makes US Wet” a poetic blend of curiosity, humour, sensuality and concern, this film chronicles the pleasures and politics of H2O from an ecosexual perspective. Followed by live Q&A. →
Online Festival Platform
www.neon-festival.com
Screening - 1 November 2021, 6 pm - 7.30 pm
Q&A - 1 November 2021, 7.45 pm - 8.45 pm
This event is online. The film will have closed captions. This talk will be live-captioned.
New Ways of Seeing
WorkshopThe School of Cyborg presents New Ways of Seeing, with artists Evie Edwards and Chahat Major. →
Online Festival Platform
www.neon-festival.comKathryn Rattray Gallery
Saturday 6 November, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
The online event will have auto captions.
Conversation Garden
Talks/PanelThe School of Cyborg is delighted to announce A conversation garden with Shannon McRae This conversation with Shannon McRae will start from her 1995 text “Coming Apart at the Seams: Sex, Text, and the Virtual Body”. →
Online Festival Platform
www.neon-festival.comKathryn Rattray Gallery
Sunday 7 November, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
The online event will have auto captions.
ReWired: The Internet of Us
Text CommissionCommissioned text and image piece by Shannon McRae, asking what does it mean to be a queer woman on the Internet? →
Online Festival Platform
www.neon-festival.comWednesday 10 - Saturday 13 November, 24/7
This text will have closed captions, text-to-speech functions, and auto-translation with Google Translate.
Gathering Multitudes: A Bag of Stars
Gaming, HighlightsAn interactive environment centred on the idea of data trust and data commons using the garden or seed bank as a metaphor. →
Online Festival Platform
www.neon-festival.comWednesday 10 - Saturday 13 November 2021
NEoN Digital Audit
Research, Text CommissionHelen Pritchard and Femke Snelting from The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI), will help NEoN to ‘audit’ its digital practices. →
Online Festival Platform
www.neon-festival.comNovember 2021, with the publication of audit late 2021.
The text will be available in an audio format and auto-translation with Google Translate.
The Failed Zoom
Text CommissionThe Failed Zoom, a quasi-report that includes their own account of the raid, alongside text and images from their research to date. →
Online Festival Platform
www.neon-festival.comWednesday 10 - Saturday 13 November, 24/7
The text will be available in an audio format.
Taking Space: Digital
Exhibitionhidden route theatre company, theatre-artist Hayley Blakeman and NEoN Digital Arts Festival are collaborating on an exciting new project this Autumn. →
Online Festival Platform & Dundee City
Various street advertising sites across Dundee.www.neon-festival.com
Wednesday 10 - Tuesday 30 November, 24/7
Please be aware this is an outdoor exhibition.
We recommend using www.euansguide.com and search for Dundee.
Spectral Constellations (2021)
Exhibition, InstallationSpectral Constellations is a series of generative animations, driven by scientific data of young stars. →
Mills Observatory
Glamis Road, Balgay Park, DD2 2UB
Wednesday 10 November - Thursday 23 December
Winter Opening hours: Monday to Friday – 4pm – 10pm; Saturday & Sunday – 12:30pm – 4pm
The work is highly visual with no text. The venue has disabled access, an induction Loop, disabled parking, accessible toilet.
The Talking Tree
GamingAn online video game with writing and hand-painted imagery to explore the potential of roleplay, science fiction and world-building. →
Online Festival Platform
www.neon-festival.comWednesday 10 - Saturday 13 November, 24/7
This piece is highly visual and contains text.
E-motion, beta version
Exhibition, Gaming, HighlightsFannie Sosa is creating a new digital consciousness for the WIG. Answering questions that people might have about inviting artists of colour to a white institution. →
Online Festival Platform
www.neon-festival.comWednesday 10 - Saturday 13 November, 24/7
This work will have have closed captions.
Critical Reflection of Round The Virtual Table
Text CommissionA critical reflection of Round The Virtual Table. Discussing digital transformations, putting a feminist view at its heart to provide new avenues for empowerment. →
Online Festival Platfrom
www.neon-festival.comWednesday 10 - Saturday 13 November, 24/7
The text will be available in an audio format and auto-translation with Google Translate.
INTER/her
Exhibition, Highlights, InstallationCamille Baker will present her new work INTER/her, a new multi-sensory, immersive art installation. The work explores the psychological issues of womanhood and the sense of self. →
Overgate Shopping Centre
Dundee DD1 1UQWednesday 10 - Saturday 13 November, 10:00am - 4:00pm
Overgate Centre https://www.overgate.co.uk/accessibility/.
The artist will be available to provide on-site guidance.
Algorithmic Encounters / Machinic Perceptions
Talks/PanelArtists Siri Black and Marion Carré in conversation with artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and curator Sarah Cook. →
Online Digital Platform
www.neon-festival.comFriday 12 November, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
CC - Captioned Projects marked CC will have live, or pre-recorded captions in English. These captions will express all text spoken. For some of the performances, the captions will be optional and instructions on how to turn on the captions will be clearly described on the individual show pages.
New Forms of Togetherness: Online Presentation & Discussion
Artists Siri Black and Marion Carré in coversation with artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and curator Sarah Cook. About this event Artists Siri Black and Marion Carré will present work developed in the framework of the “New Forms of Togetherness” residency. The artists will be joined for a discussion by artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and curator →
Online
How will the internet look if we rebuild it from the ground up?
OutreachPadmini Ray Murray and Holly White are working together on the NEoN digital arts festivals outreach programme, gathering the local community’s thoughts and ideas on what a community-run internet could look like. →
Online Festival Platform
www.neon-festival.comFriday 12 November 2021, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. Exact times TBC
Please get in touch if you wish to discuss your accessibility requirements for this event.
Walking: Holding & Online Discussion
Highlights, Screening, Talks/PanelRosana Cade will be presenting the creative documentary ‘Walking:Holding’, which is a response to their acclaimed participatory performance of the same name. →
Online Festival Platform & Steps Theatre
www.neon-festival.comCentral Library, The Wellgate, DD1 1DB
Saturday 13th November, 2:00pm-4:00pm
The film will have closed captioning and an audio description track
The in-person event will have closed captioning, BSL and Audio Description.