Begin forwarded message: > ART > FOR > SHOPPING > CENTRES > > Thirty years after Brian Eno's Music For Airports, Futuresonic > presents Art For Shopping Centres, an exhibition of major artworks, > after which you will never look at a shopping centre the same again. > > A part of FUTURESONIC 2007 > 10-12 May, Manchester > www.futuresonic.com > > Download Brochure > www.futuresonic.com/ftp/FS07_brochure.pdf > > ____ > > ART > FOR > SHOPPING > CENTRES > > Manchester Arndale > 10-20 May, 9am-8pm > Free > > Transforming the city into a space of experimentation, freeing > urban space, making it strange. > > MEDIASHED FT METHODS OF MOVEMENT, > THE DUELLISTS > Parkour, or freerunning, involves fluid, uninterrupted movement, > adapting motion to obstacles in the environment. Like free-media, > freerunning makes use of and re-energises the infrastructure of the > city. MediaShed ft Methods of Movement present an acrobatic parkour > competition between two late-night traceurs, staged overnight in > the Arndale shopping centre, filmed using only the in-house CCTV > system, in the first official implementation of the GEARBOX free- > media video toolkit, and shown on the screens inside the shopping > centre, with an original soundtrack by Hybernation. > > KATHERINE MORIWAKI, > EVERYTHING REALLY IS > CONNECTED, AFTER ALL > Visit the Arndale to discover a whole new shopping experience. > Using a flock of mobile devices, emergent narratives adapt to the > proximity of other people around you while you roam the plazas and > arcades. The shopping centre is a 'non-place', a space that is > unique but identical everywhere across the world. The stories are > tales of everyday people encountered in this space. As a backdrop > for desire, projection, and the acquisition of material objects, > the Arndale and the experience of shopping is explored in order to > locate and find experiences and concerns that bind us together in > small and large ways. > > HARWOOD, > NETMONSTER > Harwood seeks to uncover truths forgotten in the light reflected > from the endless shop windows, in an ever-evolving 'network image' > showing how the Arndale and Manchester city centre have risen from > the ashes of the 1996 IRA bomb. Coinciding with the date Ian > Paisley and Gerry Adams are scheduled to form an historic power- > sharing government in Northern Ireland, Harwood revisits the legacy > of the 1996 IRA bomb, which famously detonated just a few meters > away from Manchester Arndale. Harwood's NetMonster software > searches the internet for thematic content, sniffing out links and > connections, creating a living, composite image from images > splintered around the worlds media. > > Staged in partnership with Manchester Arndale, Manchester's main > city centre shopping centre as one of their 3 major cultural events > in 2007. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TELECOM-CITIES Current searchable archives (Feb. 1, 2006 to present) at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Old searchble archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/telecom-cities@googlegroups.com/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
