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NEoN lights up 2024

19th December 2024

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What’s the point in a roundtable?

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When I was in art school, there was a constant push forward towards a new now we were all being asked to co-create. That meant...

Opportunity – ReImagining the Digital Arts Symposium 

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NOW CLOSED ReGrowing Digital Arts – Creative Growth NEoN is commissioning to develop a ‘Digital Arts Symposia Provocation’ that can push the boundaries of what...

Fictional Tales of Imaginary Lifespans

A seated audience in a dark room,illuminated by an unseen object, maybe a cinema screen.

Beginning with a writhing naked woman, the NEoN Artists’ Shorts Screening Programme was a cosy affair which took place in a packed George Orwell on...

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...

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

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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...

Now In its tenth year, NEoN Digital Arts Festival is growing up!

We are excited to announce that in this, Scotland’s Year of Young People, NEoN has turned 10 and is one of 19 organisations to newly...

Rendering the Past with AND Festival

Abandon Normal Devices is a roving biennial of new cinema, digital culture and art, which will be based in the heart of the Peak District...

Ei Wada and Usaginingen win World of OMOSIROI Award

A small group of people, including Japanese sound artists Ei Wada and Usaginingen,standing on a stage in front of a white screen with the words ” World Omisiroi Award” written on it.

We are delighted to hear that two of NEoN 2015’s artists, Ei Wada and Usaginingen, have scooped up the third World OMOSIROI Award. Bestowed to...

7 Years of NEoN

A person in a large white furry costume running round past The McManus Gallery in Dundee.

As we’re letting our creative juices flourish behind the scenes to plan NEoN 2017 and beyond, we’re reflecting back on NEoN’s evolution. Having successfully executed...

NEoN commission wins New Media Writing Prize

J.R. Carpenter, the Canadian-born UK based lecturer and writer.

NEoN Digital Arts Festival took over the streets of Dundee throughout November last year and transformed the city’s industrial West Ward Works into an exhibition...

Thanks to our volunteers!

A small group of people at a NEoN stall situated in a grassy field on a bright sunny day, making origami unicorn masks.

The success of NEoN festivals come down to 2 things. Firstly – the thought-provoking installations which highlight digital art from across the globe, secondly –...

Eyes down and tap back in time to 1936 with Atmosphere

Black and white photo of two 1930’s style movie stars gazing into each others eyes.

Members of the public are invited to step inside the city’s former “Cathedral of Motion Pictures” Green’s Playhouse to watch Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s ‘Broadway Melody of 1936’...