10-13th November 2021, daily. FREE
Across the city of Dundee and online.

This year's NEoN will look to address the digital gender divide and highlight the contribution of female and nonbinary artists in shaping the digital and technology-driven arts sector. The 4-day festival will be a hybrid mix of online and physical exhibitions, interventions, performances and talks celebrating new and past works by these artists.

4th-10th November 2019. RSVP
Across the City of Dundee.

A tide of change is sweeping across the globe - from immigration to the rise in nationalism - socio-political landscapes are increasingly subject to crisis. Unparalleled events have elicited an unprecedented response as activists and community groups mobilise.

This year the NEoN Digital Arts Festival will ask; How do we protest differently in a digital age? Now more than ever, we need to learn from the ways artists use digital technology to better understand how to engage with and react against the world around us.

7:30 for 8pm, Friday 8th November 2019. RSVP
V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ

Ridley Scott's seminal 1982 science-fiction fantasy dystopia of replicant robots gone rogue in Los Angeles is set in November 2019, the same month that both the 'Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine' exhibition at V&A Dundee and the NEoN Digital Arts Festival open.

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Join us for the first time inside V&A Dundee's Locke Hall as it's transformed into the Tyrell Corporation for one night only to host our expanded screening of this iconic film. Come dressed as your favourite character for some neo-noir cinematic fun, with prizes to be won. Over 15s only.

6th–11th November 2018. FREE
Across the City of Dundee.

LIFESPANS

What is fleeting and what will last forever?

In Scotland’s Year of Young People, NEoN will envision the paths of ‘digital natives’, those born into an internet and digitally-enabled world. We’ll investigate how this affects our perception of lifespans – considering both our socio-digital lives online and our real-world lives offline – as we’re propelled into a technologically-enhanced future.

Friday 9th November 2018, 6pm. FREE
VRC, DCA, 152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DY

Inspired by the Mexican Día de los Muertos holiday, 'Coco' follows Miguel, a 12-year-old boy transported to the Land of the Dead. Here he needs to find his late great-great-grandfather to help him get back to his family among the living, or else he has to stay there forever.

A family-friendly, literally jaw-dropping spectacle, that rightly won Disney Pixar the Academy Awards for both Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. There will be prizes for the best costumes, whichever side of the great divide inspires you, so seize your moment.

FULLY BOOKED.

Friday 10th November 2017, 9pm. RSVP
Mecca Dundee Playhouse, 104-110 Nethergate DD1 4EH

2017 has been designated Scotland's Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology, and as part of the NEoN Digital Arts Festival we're turning the clock back to 1936 when Art Deco cinema Green's Playhouse first opened to the public on the site of today's Mecca bingo hall.

Step inside the iconic tower to watch Charlie Chaplin's 1936 silent comedy 'Modern Times' as the silver screen returns to the site of the original Playhouse for one more night. You're encouraged to dress like the iconic 'Little Tramp' and join us for bingo before the main feature from 7:30pm.

FULLY BOOKED

7th-12th November 2017. RSVP
Across the City of Dundee.

NEoN will expand on it being Scotland’s Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology, and will unveil hidden histories by working with artists who use the current (and controversial) practice of ‘media archaeology’.

Media archaeologists uncover and reconsider the obsolete, persistent, and hidden material cultures of the technological age – from big data software algorithms to tiny silicon chips.

NEoN proposes that artists are future media archaeologists, recorders of our current information-based society, and time-travellers highlighting the continued relevance of our long past. Join us as we dig for the digital, brush the dirt off the non-material, and excavate the internet.

Tuesday 3rd January 2017, 8:30pm. FREE
Mecca Dundee Playhouse, 104-110 Nethergate DD1 4EH

2017 has been designated Scotland's Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology, and as part of Dundee's Community Hogmanay Celebrations we're turning the clock back to 1936 when Art Deco cinema Green's Playhouse first opened to the public on the site of the Mecca bingo hall.

Step inside the iconic tower to watch Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 'Broadway Melody of 1936' as the silver screen returns to the site of the original Playhouse for one night only. Dress like your favourite vintage Hollywood star, and join us for bingo before the main feature from 6:30pm.

FULLY BOOKED

9th-13th November 2016. FREE
Across the City of Dundee.

The Spaces We’re In

Physical urban space and virtual information space are inseparably intertwined. How does being digital change our sense of our spatial surroundings? Can we play in or animate the hybrid or glitched spaces in-between? Is there negative space in cyberspace?

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NEoN, now in its seventh year, emcompasses exhibitions, workshops, talks, performances and screenings. It has established itself as a international platform to showcase digital art. Dundee, always a city in transition, continues to show how digital is an important part of it's reinvention.

Well done @weareneon for an amazing 2016 Festival - showing how design + art can inspire, inform and entertain.

Friday 11th November 2016, 7:30 for 8pm. RSVP
Hannah Maclure Centre, 1-3 Bell Street, Dundee DD1 1HP

On the 30th anniversary of the Fix It Felix Jr. arcade game, Ralph is still playing the bad guy. His only job is to wreck the Niceland apartment building, so that Felix can fix it back up again. But there's no piping hot power-up pies for Ralph. He dreams of one day being the hero, and winning a medal.

Rich Moore's brilliantly conceived 2012 Disney animated feature appeals to all ages, with references to video games old and new. With prizes for high scores and best costumes, come explore the spaces inside and between the arcade machines. It'll be everyone's duty to have a sugar rush.

FULLY BOOKED