Neon Dundee
Running from next week until the festival kicks-off is NEoN’s HaikuBot. As part of this year’s Dundee Literary Festival (21st-25th October), NEoN invites residents to participate in finding unexpected haiku in online texts and to share them on Twitter with the hashtag #NEoNhaiku. Inspired by the New York Times Haiku project, and developed locally by Albert Elwin using open source software, NEoN’s HaikuBot generates haiku by trawling through news stories in The Courier online. The best haiku will be presented in the windows of NOMAS projects for the duration of the festival.
The festival will see the premiere of work commissioned for NEoN by Japanese artist Ei Wada. The exhibition, named Picture Never Be Quiet, will launch on 12th November at the Visual Research Centre, DCA and will see Ei Wada use old electronic instruments and computers to create multiple instrument performance arrangements and installations. This new commission is supported by New Media Scotland’s Alt-w Fund and the exhibition will run until 5th December.
NEoN is also pleased to premiere ‘Chinese Coin’ – a new video installation by Viennese art group UBERMORGEN which follows their long-term research into digital economies in China (from 10th-14th November at Hannah Maclure Centre), and to bring to Scotland for the first time, Touchy: The Human Camera by Hong Kong based artist Eric Siu (pictured above) on 11th November at 4pm in partnership with Dundee Science Festival.
Of the many international artists that NEoN is bringing to Dundee, four will speak at Creative Dundee’s PechaKucha night to tell you about their work and lives in 20 slides with 20 seconds per slide, including TaeYoon Choi, a New York based Korean artist who is a co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation. The week of the festival begins with a Game Jam (from 6th-8th November) related to the new solo exhibition by Korean artist and graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Ah-Bin Shim, running from 8th November through to 12th February, both at Hannah Maclure Centre.
If this programme was happening in Glasgow or Edinburgh I suspect it would receive far higher media coverage and profile. I hope it gets the audience and participation it deserves, as it lies on the edge between inquisitive play, poetry, techno-art and digital leisure.
Nice piece on the festival Mike, why Dundee is forward, progressive and willing to try things Glasgow or Edinburgh wouldn’t; and like you say, gets about a percentage point of the credit, coverage and audience; it isn’t just the Yes city, it’s the aw f*%k yes city! I’ll be at as many of the events as I can manage, there have been many revolutions plotted on Dundee’s streets, vive them aw, digital and analogue!:-)
Couldn’t agree more with the above Mike. A great piece when I think about what it was like growing up in Dundee and what it is like now.