Whether they aim to make us laugh, to shock or to inspire, we are constantly bombarded with images that promise to improve our lives. This exhibition, however, presents us with images that actually changed lives and offers a visual diary that bookmarks significant social and political moments during the past hundred years. Over seventy original Read More
Computer generated art has the ability to leave spectators feeling disconnected with its cold and logical production. The connotations commonly associated with it are bound up in algorithms and technical jargon. William Latham’s exhibition, titled Mutator 2 challenges these stereotypes by combining the human body and the machine in an interactive approach. The VRC’s Centerspace, Read More
Jeepers Creepers, a monkey in space! Jesus Christ, they’re electrocuting it! In 1971, Eduardo Paolozzi had his only full retrospective in Britain at the Tate Gallery – it was a flop. Critics proclaimed that his imagery was overused and his ideas stagnant. Now, in 2014, The McManus brings together a selection of Paolozzi’s work from Read More
Although generic stock images and humorously isolated body parts have influential presence on the internet, we are perhaps less familiar with these images in material cardboard form, dotted around the white “background layer” of the art gallery walls as they presently are at the current DCA exhibition. In fact from afar, your eye might momentarily Read More
DJCAD Master’s Show 2014 18-23 August Mon- Fri 10am- 8pm, Sat& Sun- 10am- 4pm The official course page for the MSC Animation and Visualisation course at DJCAD states that the aim of the programme is to explore “new ways of communication through visual storytelling”. If you have been a follower of the work of the Read More
DJCAD Master’s Show 2014 18-23 August Mon- Fri 10am- 8pm, Sat& Sun- 10am- 4pm Art and Humanities is a course not just about the practical making of art but also the academic thinking and meaning behind it. All of the artists’ works are about an interaction between theory and practice in art. One such Read More
DJCAD Master’s Show 2014 18-23 August Mon- Fri 10am- 8pm, Sat& Sun- 10am- 4pm The MSc programme in Forensic Art exhibition shows the work of four artists, each of whom has used computer-generated facial reconstruction techniques to render life-like, two and three-dimensional facial representations from human skulls. The students’ research projects have been supported and Read More
In 2010, Glasgow-based artists Rob Churm, Raydale Dower and Tony Swain collaborated on Le Drapeau Noir, an exhibition staged for the Glasgow International Festival. In the context of GENERATION – a nationwide programme that celebrates some of the most significant Scottish art from the past 25 years – the trio is brought together again for Read More
Drunk on the sun, a day’s excursion to East Neuk’s well-known arts festival – with the Isle of May in the distant background – is an unadulterated pleasure, lulling you into an illusion that “warm days will never cease”. Pittenweem’s distinctive charm lies in its temporary conversion of local cottages into art galleries, in addition Read More
The Interior Environmental Design show at this year’s degree show, demonstrates perfectly the potential for social impact that goes on in the studios of applied practice in DJCAD. With a variety of projects aimed at tackling serious social problems, the work was certainly enlightening for a lay person such as myself. Several of the projects Read More