The UK’s first “activist” digital art symposium will be hosted in Dundee.
The three-day event, which runs from November 6 to 8, will cover a broad spectrum of topics such as environmentalism.
The symposium, Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology, is part of the wider Neon Digital Arts Festival.
A video game depicting the life of anti-apartheid activist Winnie Mandela follows Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife through South Africa’s political turmoil.
The symposium will also showcase a virtual insight into a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh.
Climate change will feature prominently throughout the weekend, as it explores the effects on the world by 2075.
Professor Joseph DeLappe from Abertay’s School of Design and Informatics, will showcase his latest project Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides.
The project uses the popular video-game Grand Theft Auto to highlight America’s firearms death toll.
He said: “There’s never been an international event that’s brought together digital art activists on this scale before, and I’m truly overwhelmed by the both the quality of the speakers attending and the diversity of work that they will be bringing to Scotland.
“It is crucially important that we find creative and engaging ways of switching people on to what’s happening in the world around them.
This symposium aims to do that while also inspiring, educating and entertaining those who come to see it.”
Re@ct starts on November 6 at V&A Dundee, before two events at West Church and Chamber East on November 7 and a final round of talks at Steps Theatre on November 8.
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