NEoN 10 is a seven-day international digital arts festival featuring moving image, performance, music and technology driven arts. The over arching curatorial theme this year is Character: evaluating the abstracted or physical agent in a work of art; investigation of the fictional or psychological systems; observation of the unit of information, symbol, sound or written language. Through this focused dimension NEoN intends to explore the notion of collaboration between visual art, information communication, media production and gaming that will expand digital development and knowledge.
Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings 15 February – 30 April 2010 Opening reception 12 February ६प्म
Abstract Expressionist painters have long explored strategies for decoupling gestural habit and tendency in their work by means of automatic or chance-based operations। This exhibition बी Berlin based artist Julian Oliver represents a new strategy along this vein, deploying a computer game as canvas, paint and brush.
The exhibition represents a major iteration of Oliver's game-based painting system, ioq3aPaint, a project that began in 2003 in Melbourne, Australia as part of a long career exploring artistic applications for computer game technology. ioq3aPaint is itself a modification of the source code of ioquake3, a free-software first person shooter engine used by thousands of gamers and game developers worldwide.
Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings deploys four artificial agents, competing for supremacy in a mathematical universe, as painters. Rather than viewing this battle in a highly representative 3D video game style, the scene is instead rendered as a continuously evolving painting, an expressive record of the events in a virtual arena. Here, each agent is purposed as a kind of digital brush; every twitch, lunge and change of state registered immediately as a graphic mark.
Using the new application Oliver will set up in the gallery space a large scale gaming environment where the audience can experience this new software, select and take home a high quality print of an automatic painting as it unfolds before them in real time. From the 36 million paintings that will be generated in the duration of the exhibition, a total of just 250 prints will be made available.
A number of large generated paintings selected by Oliver from earlier iterations of the battle will be displayed in the gallery. A special numbered edition Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings Linux Live CD will be produced for the exhibition and made available to audiences such that people can simply load a CD into their computers, reboot and enjoy the automatic painting system at home without need to install anything. The CD also contains the full source-code of the project allowing for modification and aesthetic development. The application would also be available to download online.
Notes about the artist:
Oliver is a New Zealand born artist, inventor and teacher now based in Berlin, Germany. He has presented papers and projects at many museums, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern, Transmediale, Ars Electronica and the Japan Media Arts Festival. His work has received several awards, ranging across technical excellence, artistic invention and interaction design.
Oliver has given numerous workshops and master classes in game-design, artistic game-development, object-oriented programming for artists, UNIX/Linux, virtual architecture, interface design, augmented reality and open source development practices worldwide. He is a long-time advocate of the use of free software in artistic production, distribution and education. In 1998 he established the artistic game-development collective, Select Parks, which has built up an extensive online game-based artwork archive.
3 August – 30 October 2009 Opening reception 31 July 6pm – 9pm
Simon Fildes – Dundee, UK; Kevin Henderson – Perth, UK; Matthew Mark Roberts – London, UK; Angela Ellsworth – Phoenix, USA; RAEchel Running – Arizona, USA; Kim Walker – Glasgow, UK
The worlds of sport and art are inextricably linked by a number of deep rooted commonalities; through the conventions which we unconsciously adhere to when judging them; through the aesthetic appreciation we hold for each discipline; through each fields demand for a public arena to showcase talent; and through the athletes personal somatic experiences.
The exhibition The Beautiful Game will seek to explore the relational aesthetics of sport, athletics, art and game play, along with its theory and psychology, mark making and movement, modes of athletic performance, temporal and spatial dissonance. By employing a wide variety of artistic practice The Beautiful Game brings sports into a visual arts context exposing the active aesthetic.
The University of Abertay’s Hannah Maclure Centre is looking for people to take part in creating motion based art works.
For the exhibition The Beautiful Game Angela Ellsworth, a multidisciplinary artist from Phoenix, USA, will be staging Training an on going mark making collaboration.
Training is an exploration of where art and exercise overlap. By engaging bodies in motion Ellsworth explores the ‘training’ process required in order to excel in the disciplines of both art and exercise.
For two-weeks exercise equipment in the University’s gym and the moving bodies of volunteers will form a collaboration and function as finely sharpened drawing tools. The atmosphere of the gym will shift as bodies generate drawings by way of moving on (and with) exercise equipment in the gym.
Training has been on going since 2002 and the project at the University of Abertay Dundee will be the first time it has been produced with community volunteers. The outcomes (drawings) of these Training sessions will be exhibited in the Hannah Maclure Centre’s gallery. To get involved contact us on T: 01382 308324 or email us at exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk
Dates Training will be taking place (times to be arranged with volunteers): 20 – 31 July excluding Sundays.
No previous drawing or exercise experience necessary, everyone welcome. For more information about the project, the exhibition and images of past sessions visit www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions or http://aellsworth.com
Ronald Forbes De Rerum Natura : The Nature of Things 16 February - 8 May 2009
An exhibition of new work produced during his time as Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence at the Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee.
The art of Ronald Forbes forms a narrative around the way we see and understand the world. It is about illusion, belief and reality – and the fuzzy edges between these. This new body of work comprises a number of large paintings, some unique digital-collage prints and a film.
24 November 2008 – 30 January 2009 Opening reception: Friday 21 November, 6-8pm Gallery Talk 4pm
In an interaction between high-tech and low-fi, A Beautiful Day presents a series of deconstructed micro-stories of daily perception and experience in an environmental context. The exhibition narrative is an audiovisual sculpture that exposes the parts of electronic devices; it fragments the vision, picks apart sensations and undermines the nature of events. Interno3 analyses sounds' and images' rifts, glitches and repeated loops, creating an understanding of the use of technology as a fundamental aspect in contemporary art practice.
Interno3 is the artistic partnership of Laura Riolfatto and Manuel Frara, active since the mid 90’s. Their practice investigates the language of video, using methods of connecting and separating sequences of images and examining the state or conditions of this technology. As the technology improves, they probe it, working with the glitches, exposing the cracks and working with the creation of malfunctions. They choose to search for the accidental errors that contaminate the recorded performance.
This exhibition is the result of collaboration between Laura Riolfatto & Manuel Frara, Gabriella Cardazzo and Galleria Contemporaneo, Venice. It is the first time they have exhibited in the UK.
"Fast" Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary "Minnesota Fats" to a high stakes match, but he loses in a heart breaking marathon.
Hannah Maclure Centre is a unique cultural facility that produces annual art happenings, exhibitions, community and digital events. Our flexible centre provides an informal space along with the support to realise creative visions from innovative artists and performers from across the globe. Our events celebrate and showcase Dundee's diverse local culture and our exhibition programme brings new international work to a local audience.
