art Archives - NEoN Digital Arts

Screen shot of The Talking Tree, By Holly White. On a brown background are the childlike painted illustrations of a caravan, a red flower. a row of plants, a sofa, a dandelion,four various pot-plants and a mushroom.

Interview with Holly White

The Wired Women* programme at this year’s NEoN festival is working to examine both the digital gender divide as well as the contributions of female and non binary artists in shaping digital spaces and online experiences. As a part of that programme, Holly White, a multi-disciplinary artist based in Glasgow, will be exhibiting a computer →

Image: NEoN Director, Donna Holford-Lovell with St Paul's Academy pupils from the National Progression Award class (NPAs), Mrs Little Head Teacher, Mr Christie and Mr Wallace of the Computing Department.

NEoN the Digital Donator

DYW Digital Donator _____________________ NEoN is partnering with Developing the Young Workforce (DYW), St Paul’s Academy and their very proactive Computing Department. St. Paul’s Secondary School serves some of the most deprived areas of the east and west of Dundee city. During the lockdown, it became apparent to teachers and support staff that a number →

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 these words is an illustration of a bird with a long, thin,curved beak, quite a fat body and 2 very thin.spindly legs.

Freedom of Movement

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 Iman Tajik, who has created an installation between V&A Dundee and the Tay Road Bridge (alongside the river) entitled Freedom of Movement. The work seeks to question the geographical borders →

Multiple white conical shapes,each sitting on a black disc, are displayed on large, wooden framed plinths.

Sound Art with VOID

NEoN caught up visual sound art collective VOID, who will be taking part in the festival this November. Comprised of Mauro Vitturini and Arnaud Eeckhout, the collective are known for their installations, which explore the different ways silence and sound can be visualised. You seem to be interested in subtle sounds, like a drop of →

In a dark room a small television monitor sits on a plinth, on the screen is a black and white abstract image.

Sarah Cook Talks About This Year’s Festival Theme

Coded After Lovelace, 2014 Hannah Maclure Centre NEoN Digital Arts Festival 2017 will expand on it being Scotland’s Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology, and through its arts program will unveil hidden histories using the current (and controversial) practice of Media Archaeology. NEoN proposes we understand artists as future Media Archaeologists, as recorders of our →

On two walls in an exhibition space are two projected images. The image on the left is of an asian person,possibly Chinese.The image on the right is of Adolf Hitler.

inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 in New York

inCube Arts have just launched their second edition of inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 in New York this week. Organized by Chen Wei-ching, Joanne and curated by Wang Chun-Chi, Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani and Carol Yinghua Lu, the festival aims to continue its mission of exhibiting time-based art with perspectives from Asia. Three exhibition venues bring the Asia-based artists’ works together in New York. Retina of the →