1 May 2015

‘Rethinking what art is (and can be) in a digital age’ - Arts Café on 5th May

Dr Sarah Cook from the University of Dundee will next week explore how digital technology has brought about a revolution in art. She will lead the next Dundee Arts Café event at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum from 6pm on Tuesday, 5th May. Dr Cook said, “Mobile devices, computer networks and new ways of accessing information and people across space and time, has led to a revolution in art – one which some museums have been reluctant to acknowledge. “Artists have long experimented with new tools but ‘new media art’ has, over the last 30 years, emb...

1 May 2015

UK voters give party leaders mixed marks on television performances

Not much separated the performances of the leaders of the three major parties in yesterday’s Question Time with David Dimbleby, according to focus groups held in Essex by the University of Dundee. While Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were marked either a B or a C, David Cameron polarised voters with marks that were either on the very low or very high end of the scale. Those were the impressions of voters who took part in focus groups conducted as part of the Qualitative Election Study at the University of Essex in Colchester last night.  Eight people took part in the research which involved watchi...