NEoN 2018 Archives - NEoN Digital Arts

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 →

A school child being helped,by an adult,to conduct a group of schoolchildren playing violins and cellos. In the background is a large,seated audience of people.

Review: Sistema Scotland & Tinderbox Performance

Youth orchestra Tinderbox collaborated with Sistema Scotland’s Big Noise Douglas Project to deliver an enjoyable evening for the whole family on Thursday 8 November. With a school nativity atmosphere, St Peter’s Free Church was full of children, their parents, and attendees of the NEoN festival walking tour – whose first stop was the performance. The →

Two people in a white room, one standing the other crouching, with various cleaning materials.

Thank you volunteers!

As this year’s festival draws to a close we just want to take a moment to thank our wonderful volunteers, without whom the festival would not be possible. Our volunteers help out with all sorts of things, including installation, stewarding, invigilating, and assisting. Out of a team of around 20, there were some real stars →

Top down,black and white illustration of a pair of hands playing a piano. Next to the hands are a set of footprints on the piano keys.

How would you interpret this principle? Sustain Your Errors

Sustain your errors is a series of workshops and events re-interpreting a set of ideas by artist and musician David Cunningham first used for his 1976 album Grey Scale. The project is based on conversations between Cicely Farrer and David Cunningham around ways of interpreting the scores and their guiding principles. Originally designed for sound, this project →

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

Fictional Tales of Imaginary Lifespans

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 7 November. Over the course of several films it explored the lifespans of imaginary insects, our electronic waste, female fertility, and more. The first film ‘Infected’ by Gina Czarnecki was →

A person in a large white room,bathed in red light, looking at a column of bright white light.

Last chance to see AL and AL’s “new nativity”

There’s only a few days left to see AL and AL’s specially commissioned work as part of NEoN digital arts festival’s ‘take over’ of the Wellgate shopping centre. In their piece, the ‘Immaculate Conception of Isaac Newton’, artists Alan Holmes and Alan Taylor, known professionally as AL and AL, propose that the birth of the →