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), to 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.

_{Image: VIP Room by 8gg,  credit David Williams}

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8gg use digital techniques to "create an open and mobile space infused with visual and audio elements". Within this digitised space performers interact with their surroundings to create new images and sounds via movement and expressions. As part of Urban Screens, this is a live, exclusive performance in the shadow of  Manchester's iconic URBIS building at which the public will be encouraged to participate via the giant screen, webcams, microphones and other sensors. More info at the Urban Screens website. the air been broken for Manchester Urban Screens 07 is associated with the V.I.P. Room project by 8gg: part of the exhibition Outside the Box at Cornerhouse from 14th September – 11th November 2007. Commissioned by folly, these 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. Image: from 8gg's City Series (2007)

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