Hannah Maclure Centre

NEoN Digital Arts Festival

2010-08-16T03:19:00.000-07:00

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.

http://www.northeastofnorth.com

|||| Back Buffer: New Arena Paintings

2010-01-20T04:41:00.000-08:00

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.

The Beautiful Game

2009-07-13T09:11:00.001-07:00

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.

Create and exhibit your own motion-generated artwork

2009-07-13T09:08:00.000-07:00

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

De Rerum Natura : The Nature of Things

2009-01-27T07:18:00.000-08:00

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.

A Beautiful Day Interno3

2008-11-12T08:59:00.000-08:00

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.

Movieclub

2008-10-13T05:36:00.000-07:00

next screening ......... The Hustler (1961)

20 October 6pm coffee, 6.30pm screening

Directed by Robert Rossen

"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.

Rated: 15
Runtime: 134 min

Concerts

2008-09-29T09:13:00.000-07:00

This Wednesday 1 October- 12.30pm-1.30pm

Lunchtime Concerts @ HMC

The Hannah Maclure Centre proudly presents a series of afternoon concerts showcasing the latest talents in performing arts. From singers to musicians, dramatic readings to poetry recitals; there’s something to satisfy all tastes!

Come along to the HMC gallery café the first Wednesday of every month, be entertained, enjoy a coffee, a tasty sandwich or sushi and enjoy the show…

Kicking off the first session is local talent Jill Gibson, performing popular covers as well as her own material. Graduating from Dundee College with an HNC in Modern Musicianship Jill as been performing both locally and around the country.

Jill will be entertaining us in the gallery with piano and vocals from 12.30pm this Wednesday.

Forbidden Planet

2008-07-27T07:40:00.000-07:00

next screening .........

28 July 6pm coffee

6.30pm screening Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen. The characters and setting were inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the plots are very similar.

The film features a number of Oscar-nominated special effects, groundbreaking use of an all-electronic music score, and the first screen appearance of both Robby the Robot and the C-57D flying saucer starship.

Call for submissions

2008-06-30T05:40:00.000-07:00

The University of Abertay’s Hannah Maclure Centre is currently researching the area of sports and leisure and how the biological and psychological influences of sport, and through sociology, can influence and shape contemporary society.

This call is to hear about your current practice and how it could explore one of the many areas of sports and leisure - the aesthetics of sport, its theory or psychology, mark making and movement, modes of athletic performance, temporal and spatial dissonance ……….

We are looking to receive submissions from cross-disciplinary work at any stage of career but have a keen interest in technologies being used for creative expression.

It is envisaged that a number of artists will be selected to work on new works either as solo pieces or as a collaborative commission to then be part of a large exhibition starting August 2009.

The University’s division of Sports and Leisure is positively involved with developing sport and exercise throughout the University and across the UK and are keen to be actively involved in this project.

Submission deadline: 22nd August 2008

Please send us a statement of practice and how you would investigate the theme, a current CV and 1 – 5 images.

You can email your submission to exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk (images as jpeg less than 2MB) or submit on CD-ROM or DVD by post to:

Donna Holford-Lovell
Cultural Projects Officer
University of Abertay Dundee
Whitespace, Bell Street
Dundee, DD1 1HG

For more information on sporting activities at Abertay visit www.abertay.ac.uk/sport

For more information on the Hannah Maclure Centre visit www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions

monomania

2008-05-26T06:20:00.000-07:00

the new evening art group ... every 2nd Wednesday

launch 28 May 5.30pm
Hannah Maclure Centre

do art, drink coffee, have chat .....

an informal art get-together with all different themes

28 May - mono printing
11 June - papercycle
25 June - book binding
9 July - figure draw

open to all and free ... we also provide the equipment and inspiration for free

New Media Residency - ~in the fields

2008-04-25T09:30:00.000-07:00

Abertay's current artists in residents ~ in the fields are exhibiting their newly commissioned work ink at the Dick Institute

more...

Demoscene Film Screening

2008-04-25T02:17:00.000-07:00

HMC Cinema
6 June 6.30pm

Demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations run real-time on a computer. Programmers and artists show off their skills in graphics, algorithmic programming, computer generated graphics and music, stretching computer hardware to its edge, often even further. For this first screening Paul Grenfell of Denki has selected some of the best demoscene examples from across the globe.

A36 - Computer Arts & Media Honours Exhibition

2008-04-25T02:14:00.000-07:00

HMC Gallery
19 May - 16 July 2008

For an alternative degree show experience get along to the University of Abertay Dundee's 'End of Year Show'. We have a mix of graduating talent from our Computing and Creative Technologies degree courses including Computer Arts, Multi Media and Creative Sound Production.

Mon - Fri 9.30am - 4.45pm

back to basics

2008-04-23T14:39:00.000-07:00

Cut Out + Keep is an online community for crafty and creative people to make and share step-by-step tutorials. Post your own tutorials, show off things you've made or have a shot at someone else's project.

What you can do there:

browse through hundreds of craft projects and tutorials.
read Snippets, our exclusive online entertainment magazine filled with great interviews and competitions.
check out our blog, updated daily with the best of craft and creativity on the internet.
chat on our boards and make crafty new friends.
listen to our podcast.

Join today to create a profile, add friends, send messages, comment, blog, access exclusive Snippets content and chat on the boards. Cut Out + Keep is a completely DIY website, we built it from scratch and we're adding new features every day!

On the HMC Cinema

2008-04-16T03:39:00.000-07:00

Regular events

Movie Club
Monday 6pm-10pm, meeting every 2 weeks (next showing 21st April)
A broad range of films are screened and debated.
Movie Club is free and open to University Staff, students and the general public.

SA Film Night
Every Tuesday 8pm-10.30pm

For more information:
E 0501818@abertay.ac.uk (Jack Ward-Fincham, President)

Linux Society
Thursday 7pm-9pm, meeting every 2 weeks
The Linux society promotes Free and Open source software as a replacement/alternative to more commonly used software such as Windows and Mac OS.
*The Linux Society supports new users to Linux and is free and open to University Staff, students and the general public.

For more information:
E 0605909@abertay.ac.uk (Arron Finnon, President)
Student Screenings
Bi-Monthly
All forms of filmmaking are welcome; from documentary, performance to interactive, animation and experimental pieces.

For more information or to get involved
T 01382 308324 or E exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk

New arts body embraces computer games

2008-04-03T04:47:00.000-07:00

Computer games, design and interactive technologies will sit alongside the more traditional artistic pursuits of the visual and performing arts as part of Creative Scotland's remit, according to the team charged with forming Scotland's new cultural agency.

read more .....

MOVIE CLUB/// Monday 7 April

2008-04-01T08:28:00.000-07:00

6pm tea & Coffee, 6.30pm start

Next Screening:
The Passenger, (1975) 126 minutes, rated PG/12

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni,

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider,
Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, Steven Beroff

Movie Club 24 March

2008-03-21T03:58:00.000-07:00

Movie Club
Monday 24th March '08
6pm for Teas and Coffees
6:30pm - we start the film

Silver City
(2004) 128 minutes, certificate 15

Written and directed by John Sayles

Cast: Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Huston, Maria Bellow, Kris Kristofferson, Mary Kay Place, Thora Birch, Tim Roth, Billy Zane, Daryl Hannah

political satire

synopsis: Dicky Pilager (Cooper) is a charismatic but dim witted republican candidate. In the midst of an election campaign, he has the misfortune to discover a body whilst out in his boat. Suspicious of a set-up, his campaign manager Chuck Raven (Dreyfuss) hires a private investigator to look into the matter. The investigation uncovers some unsavoury truths about Pilager and his family, and leads deeper and deeper into a web of corruption.

"Smart, intriguing, funny and sad, with some primo wisecracking dialogue." - Angie Errigo, Empire

Running Stitch interactive art project

2008-03-21T03:54:00.000-07:00

There is still a chance for you to become involved in Running Stitch, a large 8ft x 8ft tapestry map of Dundee, being created live during the exhibition Signals in the City.

Signals in the City
Exploration of the urban data, technology and its visualisation

The University of Abertay’s Hannah Maclure Centre is looking for people to take part in creating a large scale social interactive art work.

Artists Jen Southern, Jen Hamilton, Chris St Amand along with Onteca Ltd, a Liverpool games company, have developed Landlines, software which enables an audience to use GPS mobile phones as a drawing tool.

Visitors are invited to journey through Dundee whilst their movements are tracked via satellite and projected live back to the gallery. These individual GPS drawings of visitors’ journeys are then stitched onto the evolving tapestry revealing hidden aspects of the city, creating a sense of place and interconnection.

The artists are looking for “stitchers” and “walkers” to work with and help create this map of Dundee. Become part of this live event and thread by thread see the city emerge on the canvas.

This is a voluntary event and refreshments will be available and recognition will be given to all the participants.

To get involved please contact us asap on
T: 01382 308324 or email us at exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk

For more info
http:// www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions
http://www.hamiltonandsouthern.net/
http://www.landlines.org/partners.html

Signals in the City is an exhibition & colloquium being hosted by University of Abertay’s Hannah Maclure Centre – exhibition 3 March – 2 May 2008, colloquium 1 May 10am – 5pm (booking is required)

scribble dundee

2008-03-16T08:05:00.000-07:00

Scribble sounds like an excellent idea ... I am just sorry I missed this Saturdays

http://www.myspace.com/scribblydoodledandy

it would be interesting to see some images ... if there is any??

Signals in the City - Colloquium Programme

2008-02-25T07:54:00.000-08:00

Colloquium
1 May 10am – 5pm

Jen Southern will discuss her collaborative projects with Jen Hamilton and Chris St Amand – This collaborative group have a social and tactile approach to technology and work with audiences to explore location and sense of place. Through commissions, exhibitions and residencies they produce installations, performances and websites to explore how new technologies influence the way we inhabit an environment. She will also talk about industry collaborations and the development of new tools for collaborative mapping.

Clive Gillman will discuss the nature of 'commons' - both physical and virtual and how using technology can open up the local dialogues; also contextualising his art practice which reflect the themes of urban visualisation.

Simone O’Callaghan will present her findings from the exhibition and evaluate the ways in which people interacted with the ubiquitous media and its new visual codes of narrative and intimacy.

John Isaacs will talk through S-City VT research and how it provides a common language for the theory of sustainability. How the tool can be used by the wide variety of stakeholders when considering the regeneration of a city.

Mark Shovman will present findings from his research into Visualising Complex Data Sets. By using a haptic interactive virtual environment (HIVE) and the theoretical foundations of gestalt theory of perception to create visualisations, this project aims to create visualisations that enable a user to immediately and effortlessly analyse large complex and multidimensional data sets. By applying rigorous psychophysical methodologies to assess human perception of HIVE-generated visualisations a set of guidelines will be produced for the efficient data visualisation and an extensive knowledge base.

Chaos Computer Club will talk about Blinkenlights created in 2001 as a celebration of its 20th birthday. A light installation in the Haus des Lehrers building at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin transformed its front into a giant monochrome low-resolution computer screen. Some novel uses of the screen were for people to call a number and play Pong via mobile phone or display animations sent in by the public. Other projects include Metalab a non-profit hack space in Vienna offering space for free exchange of information, and collaboration between technical-creative enthusiasts, hackers and founders. http://metalab.at/

Dundee Business will discuss wireless cities; the technology, the logistics, the pros and cons and whether Dundee could become a wireless city.

visit www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions for booking information

'stitchers' & 'urban ramblers'

2008-02-21T14:41:00.000-08:00

The HMC is looking for people to take part in creating a large scale social interactive art work.

Running Stitch, a large 8ft x 8ft tapestry map of Dundee, will be created live during the exhibition Signals in the City.

Artists Jen Southern, Jen Hamilton, Chris St Amand along with Onteca Ltd, a Liverpool games company, have developed Landlines, software which enables an audience to use GPS mobile phones as a drawing tool.

Visitors are invited to journey through Dundee whilst their movements are tracked via satellite and projected live back to the gallery. These individual GPS drawings of visitors’ journeys are then stitched onto the evolving tapestry revealing hidden aspects of the city, creating a sense of place and interconnection.

The artists are looking for 'stitchers' & 'urban ramblers' to work with and help create this map of Dundee. Visit the gallery to pick your GPS mobile phone and embark on your journey through the streets of Dundee. Take your favourite walk, track your day to day journey, go somewhere you’ve never been before - explore! Upon your return to the gallery see your travels mapped out on the tapestry and watch as the city of Dundee emerges from the canvas.

To get involved please contact us T: 01382 308324 or email us at exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk

New Media Residency

2008-02-19T08:03:00.000-08:00

In partnership with the Scottish Arts Council’s Visual Arts Department the University of Abertay Dundee hosts a New Media Residency; with a £10,000 bursary it is open for visual artists resident in Scotland.

Each year the Residency runs for a 9-month period from October to June. Located in Whitespace, the artists selected for the programme have access to the newly developed integrated learning and research environment along with the facilities that Whitespace and the University has to offer.

Whilst on the residency programme the artists undertake an identified process of personal and professional development, get actively involved within the UAD environment and make presentations to research staff and students about the nature and objectives of their work. At the end of their time with UAD the artists have the opportunity to exhibit in the Hannah Maclure Centre.

To find out more about the application process please visit www.scottisharts.org.uk

Signals in the City

2008-02-19T07:30:00.000-08:00

exploration of the urban data, technology and its visualisation

By tagging the urban space using data systems and wireless technologies we can create and explore maps and representations of the urban environment in order to experience a place like never before. Invisible complex data, once visualised, can uncover new ways of thinking about, interacting with or discovering our urban surroundings.

Exhibition

3 March – 2 May 2008

Hamilton & Southern

with Chris St Amand (UK, Canada)

Clive Gillman (UK)

Simone O’Callaghan (Australia)

John Isaacs (UK)

Michele Pred (USA)

In The Fields (Germany)

Colloquium

1 May 10am - 5pm

Jen Southern (UK)

Clive Gillman (UK)

Simone O’Callaghan (Australia)

John Isaacs (UK)

Mark Shovman (Isreal)

Chaos Computer Club (Germany)

Admission to the exhibition and colloquium are free but places for the colloquium are limited therefore booking is required. For the full programme and booking details contact E exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk T 01308 308 324 or visit www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions