2020 – Page 17 – University Culture Online

Festival of the Future: University of Dundee’s celebration of science, arts and culture

Categories: Art, Dance, Music, Science

Festival of the Future is the University of Dundee’s annual event which celebrates science, arts and culture. In 2019 we had 60 events across 5 days in Bonar Hall and other venues around the city. We collaborated with a range of partners including Dundee Science Festival, DCA and Dundee Rep Theatre, we journeyed to Mars,…Continue Reading Festival of the Future: University of Dundee’s celebration of science, arts and culture

RDMH – Saudade by Chantal Leimbach

Categories: Archives, Art

Chantal Leimbach used The Grampian Club photos and images she shot herself in Austria to inspire her contribution to the River Deep Mountain High exhibition. Chantal looked for textural similarities & differences in the images and explored this in her paintings. Saudade by Chantal Leimbach Acrylic on canvas board “When I first looked through the…Continue Reading RDMH – Saudade by Chantal Leimbach

HerStory: Dundee’s Women in Science Exhibition

Categories: Archives, Science

HerStory of Science exhibition opened at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee on Friday, 3rd March 2017 with some of the descendants of those featured in attendance. A series of outdoor posters consider the early history of women’s contributions to science from a local perspective. The extraordinary achievements of 10 women…Continue Reading HerStory: Dundee’s Women in Science Exhibition

The Peto Collection – Barcelona Streetlife, June 1959

Categories: Archives, Photography

This vibrant picture, taken in June 1959, was one of a series Peto photographed for the ‘Observer’ which did a feature of Spanish life under Franco’s regime. In the 1950s Franco implemented some reforms of Spain’s isolationist self-sufficiency policies which led to massive economic growth and a move away from its totalitarian repressive regime. Photo-journalist…Continue Reading The Peto Collection – Barcelona Streetlife, June 1959

Video: Kevin Quantum, UoD Science and Engineering alumnus, appears on Britain’s Got Talent

Categories: Science

Kevin McMahon AKA Kevin Quantum, magician scientist hybrid and University of Dundee alumnus appears on Britain’s Got Talent! Check out his jaw-dropping act in the video below:…Continue Reading Video: Kevin Quantum, UoD Science and Engineering alumnus, appears on Britain’s Got Talent

Video: John Duncan and the Celtic Revival in Dundee

Categories: Art, Museums

While the University’s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some of our most interesting objects and artworks. In this video we look at two…Continue Reading Video: John Duncan and the Celtic Revival in Dundee

Video: Watch Nicky, 2nd Year Neuroscience Student and Member of the UoD Orchestra, play Chopin Nocturne in c#

Categories: Music

Delighted to have one of our students and member of the orchestra play for us today. Nicky is completing her 2nd year studying Neuroscience at University of Dundee. She’s playing Chopin Nocturne in c#. You can find plenty more Dundee University Music videos being regularly posted on the Music at University of Dundee Facebook page…Continue Reading Video: Watch Nicky, 2nd Year Neuroscience Student and Member of the UoD Orchestra, play Chopin Nocturne in c#

Video: A Preview of Some of the New Plants in the Botanic Nursery

Categories: Gardens

The Botanic nursery is still on lockdown but the team at the Botanic Gardens are all looking forward to making further improvements to the garden and are giving us a preview of some of their new plants. Click on the video below to watch botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney show us and talk through some of…Continue Reading Video: A Preview of Some of the New Plants in the Botanic Nursery

The Oldest Item in the University Archives

Categories: Archives

The oldest thing in the University Archives is this fragment of papyrus given to University College Dundee in acknowledgement of their support of the Egypt Exploration Fund (MS 142). It probably records the sale of a female slave (likely 8 years old) in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt on 22 August AD 99….Continue Reading The Oldest Item in the University Archives

Video: PGDE 18-19 Art & Design Workshops

Categories: Art

This short MP4 was created in collaboration with the PGDE 18-19 (Postgraduate Diploma in Education) students from the school of Education and Social Work at University of Dundee. It comprises materials and images from their art and design workshops as well as their photographs of their primary children’s art and design work, from three placements…Continue Reading Video: PGDE 18-19 Art & Design Workshops

RDMH – Stretch of Water by Lucy Golden

Categories: Archives, Art

Lucy Golden’s ,’Stretch of Water’ for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition was inspired by data & models produced by the Dept of Geology & R.W. Austin’s ocean colour scale held by the University Museums. Lucy developed a series of paintings which explore the Tay Estuary, fascinated by the unseen. Stretch of Water by…Continue Reading RDMH – Stretch of Water by Lucy Golden

The Cooper Gallery – A space in-between: A is for Avant-Garde, Z is for Zero

Categories: Art, DJCAD

Cooper Gallery’s detour in the space in-between where we find ourselves, somewhere between life as it was and the world to come, begins by sharing reading, listening and screening material related to and featured in our currently postponed exhibition A is for Avant-Garde, Z is for Zero: Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, compiled with generous support…Continue Reading The Cooper Gallery – A space in-between: A is for Avant-Garde, Z is for Zero