Outside The Box
Archive | events | 2007 | Manchester | velocity
Venue: Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH. www.cornerhouse.org
folly have commissioned The V.I.P Room, by Bejing based 8gg (artists Jiang Haiqing and Fu Yu), which will be exhibited as part of Cornerhouse's Outside the Box exhibition. Renowned for working on a large scale, the artist’s interactive installation will incorporate an outsized computer keyboard and projected imagery, where changes in sound and vision are controlled by the actions of visitors.
Also in Manchester, 8gg will be performing the air been broken live as part of Urban Screens at 12 noon on Saturday 13th October.
Outside the Box and the air been broken form the Manchester based elements of the VELOCITY Festival of Digital Culture taking place in and around the Morecambe Bay area from the 11th October to the 3rd November 2007.
About Outside the Box:
"In our connected world, where the economy, business and art are positioned closer and closer through media usage, it is timely to present media art from a new perspective, and without the usual preconceptions." Kathy Rae Huffman
Outside the Box celebrates the achievements of artists who have presented innovative work in the public realm, creating unexpected shifts in perception by doing so. Each of the nine artists/ artist collaborations featured in the exhibition has been selected to illustrate a unique approach to screen-based work in public spaces that moves away from entrenched, predictable way of working.
Interactive digital television, computer game culture and DJ culture as well as the now familiar video and the internet, have given today's artists more options for production than ever before. The artists in Outside the Box utilise a variety of media including film, video, photography, the Internet, and computer gaming, to explore the potential social impact of screen-based work.
All the artists in the exhibition have worked successfully in both traditional gallery settings, and unconventional public spaces. Outside the Box will extend beyond the gallery, into the city where a selection of performance events will take place. Also look out for work in Cornerhouse’s cafe bar. The exhibition and related public events aim to draw new relationships between theoretical ideas, media forms and critical art practice in public environments.
Outside the Box includes work by The Light Surgeons, Jim Campbell, Daniel Canogar, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, Jenny Holzer, Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky, Günther Selichar, Anne-Marie Schleiner and 8gg (Jiang Haiqing and Fu Yu)
Image: VIP Room by 8gg, credit David Williams
Funded by the Arts Council Lottery Fund
14th September – 11th November 2007
Venue: Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH. www.cornerhouse.orgfolly have commissioned The V.I.P Room, by Bejing based 8gg (artists Jiang Haiqing and Fu Yu), which will be exhibited as part of Cornerhouse's Outside the Box exhibition. Renowned for working on a large scale, the artist’s interactive installation will incorporate an outsized computer keyboard and projected imagery, where changes in sound and vision are controlled by the actions of visitors.
Also in Manchester, 8gg will be performing the air been broken live as part of Urban Screens at 12 noon on Saturday 13th October.
Outside the Box and the air been broken form the Manchester based elements of the VELOCITY Festival of Digital Culture taking place in and around the Morecambe Bay area from the 11th October to the 3rd November 2007.
About Outside the Box:
"In our connected world, where the economy, business and art are positioned closer and closer through media usage, it is timely to present media art from a new perspective, and without the usual preconceptions." Kathy Rae Huffman
Outside the Box celebrates the achievements of artists who have presented innovative work in the public realm, creating unexpected shifts in perception by doing so. Each of the nine artists/ artist collaborations featured in the exhibition has been selected to illustrate a unique approach to screen-based work in public spaces that moves away from entrenched, predictable way of working.
Interactive digital television, computer game culture and DJ culture as well as the now familiar video and the internet, have given today's artists more options for production than ever before. The artists in Outside the Box utilise a variety of media including film, video, photography, the Internet, and computer gaming, to explore the potential social impact of screen-based work.
All the artists in the exhibition have worked successfully in both traditional gallery settings, and unconventional public spaces. Outside the Box will extend beyond the gallery, into the city where a selection of performance events will take place. Also look out for work in Cornerhouse’s cafe bar. The exhibition and related public events aim to draw new relationships between theoretical ideas, media forms and critical art practice in public environments.
Outside the Box includes work by The Light Surgeons, Jim Campbell, Daniel Canogar, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, Jenny Holzer, Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky, Günther Selichar, Anne-Marie Schleiner and 8gg (Jiang Haiqing and Fu Yu)
Image: VIP Room by 8gg, credit David Williams
Funded by the Arts Council Lottery Fund
