Our Programme is Live! 6 – 11 November 2018

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NEoN Digital Arts Festival: Lifespans 6 – 11 November 2018 Today we launch our online programme! Celebrating our tenth year, NEoN digital arts festival’s theme...

Cassie McQuater’s Black Room

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NEoN blogger Ana Hine caught up with Cassie McQuater to discuss her online interactive art piece ‘Black Room’ and how she feels about this year’s...

Maladox – Hadi Mehrpouya & Robert Powell

Maladox – illustration of a man with exposed insides and caption ‘for the cyber-sick’

I’m sure all of us have, at one point or another, typed the word ‘headache’ into a search engine and then decided we were definitely...

Sensatronic Lab’s Digital Drop-In

Lumps of brightly coloured Play Doh with wires inserted into it. Sitting alongside the Play Doh are an orange,an apple and a banana,all have wires inserted.All the wires are connected to a small circuit board.

Half-way through building a keyboard out of tinfoil and insulating tape I realised why the Sensatronic Lab has been so successful; it’s just great fun....

Digital Art at the DJCAD Masters Show 2018

“You might not be triggered,” laughs Erin Crossan, 27, as she discusses her piece ‘Naughty Step’. Part of an installation exploring the other-ing of children,...

AL and AL talk science fiction, homophobia, hating the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’

Al Holmes and Al Taylor, known professionally as AL and AL, met in the last 90s and started making films together after graduating from Central...

Sound Art with VOID

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

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,...

Sarah Cook Talks About This Year’s Festival Theme

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

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...

Interview: I.D Password (IDPW)

I.D Password ( IDPW) logo. Black writing on white background.

As our NEoN 2015 festival is in full swing this week, we decided to give you all a sneak peek at one of our events, by...

The 16 year old looking to make a career in GIFs

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In case you couldn’t tell, we love GIFs at NEoN! Not only can the endless loop of images be amusing when they’re clips from you’re favourite TV show...

Interacting with holograms: The future is here!

A close up of a persons finger tip. Just at the tip of the finger is a very small image of a flying Fairy which is neon blue in colour.

Holograms nowadays are a bit dated. Sure, the Michael Jackson hologram which has appeared in concerts, in music videos and at the 2014 Billboard Music...

GIFs in the professional world: The first GIF based documentary

A black and white moving image of someone having their hair shaved in a hairdressers.

If you’ve read our previous blog post ‘GIFs as Digital Art’, you’ll have learned that this month (June) marks the 28th anniversary of the GIF....

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