Augmented Reality Art Commission, NEoN Digital Arts Festival: REACT

Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2019. For exhibition beginning: 4 November 
2019

Artist Fee £2000 (inclusive of research and production costs and any licensing 
fees)

From 4 – 10 November 2019 the NEoN Digital Arts Festival 
<https://northeastofnorth.com/theme/> in Dundee, Scotland will be focused on 
the theme “REACT”, exploring how artists use digital systems to effect change 
within our social and political realities. We are now seeking proposals for a 
commissioned project utilising AR and mobile technologies inspired by NEoN’s 
theme.

Many artists involved in digital arts are also part of communities of activists 
reacting and responding to local, national, global, social and political crises 
(raising awareness around issues of environmentalism, gender equality, 
exploitation, colonialism, militarism, emancipation, etc.). REACT will be a 
platform to present and critically examine the relevance of present practices, 
theories and strategies – to engage an uncertain future through an exploration 
of the creative potential of digital art.

We are particularly interested in works that function at street level utilising 
AR to engage protest, activism, agency and radical design in challenging and 
activating participants. We are specifically seeking to commission a new work 
using augmented reality that is participatory/interactive and freely accessible 
via android and IOS devices. We are interested in proposals that engage the 
local and/or the global (the AR project could be specific to Dundee or be 
utilised anywhere – as long as the project premieres in Dundee as part of NEoN 
REACT 2019). 

The commission will be launched as part of NEoN Digital Arts Festival 2019: 
REACT, and NEoN will host the project for the duration of the festival. 

Schedule
Open Call announced 24 June 2019
Deadline for proposals 31 July 2019
5-8 August – follow up conversations where necessary (by email/phone)
16 August – decision made, artists informed and announced
3 September – selected artist give progress report
1 October – selected artist to give second progress report (including 
confirming details relating to the work’s launch/exhibition, taking account of 
any timelines for testing and app store approvals for instance)
4 November – Work launched at opening of NEoN Festival, Dundee.

Visit our website for the full submission details 
https://northeastofnorth.com/call-for-submissions-augmented-reality-art-commission/
 


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Donna Holford-Lovell
Director 
NEoN (North East of North) 
Unit 5, Vision Building 
20 Greenmarket
Dundee, DD1 4QB

www.northeastofnorth.com

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