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.

Booking opens at 6pm on Thursday 1st November 2018.

Design
www.susanacamaraleret.com

Throughout her fellowship, Susana Cámara Leret has been researching heath ecologies and the process of olfaction, from the remarkable ability of Joy Milne, who can diagnose Parkinson's Disease by smell alone, to exploring how fragrance on a molecular level can trigger memory.

Working with the radiology department at DCN, she has created 'The Smell of Onyx: Aspirations', a series of hand blown glass vessels containing the breath of patients who have undergone embolization treatment for Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs) of the brain and spinal cord.

Music
www.alexmenzies.net | florence-to.com

Musician and composer Alex Menzies regularly works with with art director and installation artist Florence To. This autumn they will be collaborating on a special performative installation in the unique spherical Dott Theatres, as the DCN moves from Western General to Little France.

Alex has created a pervasive eight channel audio work for the exhibition that explores his research into music therapy. Florence presents OCM_01, a digital animation for Sedition, that visualises a tangible sense of gravity and the psychological effects of experiencing a full dome environment.

Language & Cognition
www.gavininglis.com

Gavin Inglis is a writer of games and fiction. He created the interactive story 'Hana Feels' for Cycle 09 of the Alt-w Fund. He began his fellowship by exploring neurofiction, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), artificial intelligence and generative fiction using neural nets.

The exhibition will include work in progress on a graphic novel entitled 'Not There' that explores functional neurological disorders. He has collaborated with Consultant Neurologist Dr Jon Stone and illustrator Fin Cramb to create this work, to be published in both print and digital formats.

Cycle 06 Alt-w Production Award -
FOUND
Ziggy Campbell, Simon Kirby and Tommy Perman

Daily 10am-5pm.
National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh

Cybraphon, the autonomous emotional robot band, is now part of the National Museum of Scotland's collection. The artist collective FOUND gifted Cybraphon to the nation in 2013. It can now be seen as a key bridging work between the new art & design and science & technology galleries.

Cybraphon obsessively googles itself every 15 seconds to see how popular it is. The results affect its emotional state which in turn affects its playing style. Twenty-five antique instruments and 60 robotic actuators then play music that FOUND has composed for each emotion.