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 The Hannah Maclure Centre is pleased to present a body of work by up and coming video artist Jason Dee, from 10 December 2007-13 February 2008; Dee’s first major solo exhibition in Scotland will showcase video works including work inspired whilst on the University of Abertay’s New Media Residency.
Jason Dee undertook of Abertay’s New Media Residency programme during October 2006 – June 2007, giving him the opportunity for professional and personal development.
Along with a bursary from the Scottish Arts Council, Dee was given access the school of Computing and Creative Technologies and Whitespace, Abertay’s new integrated learning environment.
Using digital media as a means to explore pre-cinematic audio/visual technologies in relation to today’s new media methods, Jason Dee’s work looks at the juxtaposition between digital technology and 20th century cinema techniques. It highlights the development and progress of cinematic procedures by using 20th century cinema in a digital context, comparing and contrasting moving imagery and still images, sound and vision, space and confinement.
His work, often nostalgic, sometimes comical but always captivating, seeks to explore cultural and social issues, examining human traits, capturing snap shots of emotion and amplifying them through the use of looped and frozen imagery. These scenes suggest underlying, universally resonant, human themes (love and desire, fear of isolation and death) that both modify and adapt to societal and technological transformations.
Creating dislocated scenes, trapped in space and time, Jason Dee creates tense moments for his chosen characters, showing an uncanny world caught between a recorded past and a viewed present. For this exhibition an 18ft by 8ft 21st Century ‘Diorama’ has been constructed to screen ‘Run’ where a male figure tries in vain to escape the cinematic loop, running endlessly in circles, continuing without conclusion the figure will never escape.
Hannah Maclure Centre, Exhibition, Cinema, Performance
University of Abertay Dundee, Top Floor Student Centre, Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1HG
Mon – Fri 9.30am – 4.45pm
http;//www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions
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