Commissions Archives - NEoN Digital Arts

Film still from Walking Holding by Rosanna Cade.Two people holding hands and walking down a shopping arcade.

Interview with Rosana Cade

Hello! Tell us a bit about yourself; who are you, and what do you do? Hi! I’m Rosana Cade. I’m an artist based in Glasgow and my work straddles performance, live art, experimental theatre, film, club/cabaret, and activism. I identify as a queer artist. For me queerness is about: Rebellion! Celebration! Experimentation! Rebelling passionately against →

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 →

Surely, it’s not that hard?

An EDI research project. Carried out by Saoirse Amira Anis. Commissioned by NEoN Digital Arts. Project completed April 2021. Research undoubtedly ongoing. ___________________________________________________________________________ Having spoken to several arts practitioners, and reading several inspirational texts, this research project has led me to conclude that the art world would benefit from the following: “EDI” is replaced with “equity”. (By →

A group of people in a room looking at a projector screen.

Opportunity – ReImagining the Digital Arts Symposium

NOW CLOSED ReGrowing Digital Arts – Creative Growth NEoN is commissioning to develop a ‘Digital Arts Symposia Provocation’ that can push the boundaries of what academic and arts-based conferences can be. This ‘provocation’ is a researched digital arts symposium proposal that aims to experiment with the format by incorporating performance, multi-media, and wider disciplines while →

Opportunity – Manifesto for Digital Arts Work Placements

NOW CLOSED ReGrowing Digital Arts – Creative Growth NEoN is commissioning to develop a ‘Manifesto for Digital Arts Work Placements’ that can inform best practice across the digital arts creative and cultural sector. This manifesto aims to articulate best practice for internships, volunteering and research collaborations in a way that can help set up and →

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.

Para-Site-Seeing: Departure Lounge

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 cutouts of the Leishmania parasite. Part of the Para-Site-Seeing project from artist Jen Southern and scientist Rod Dillon (who is also a practising artist), funded by the Wellcome Centre for →