‘Right Here, Right Now’ brings together 16 international artists who use and explore digital technologies. Together they address how technology affects our lives – be that through surveillance, artificial intelligence, voyeurism or online dating. Many of the artworks are interactive, while others transcribe data into stunning visual displays or strange music.
This will be The Lowry’s first major digital art exhibition, bringing together leading UK digital curators who have each nominated an artwork for the show.
Created in the last five years, their critical, playful and illuminating artworks challenge our understanding of the digital systems that surround us, while making visible those that are hidden. Prepare to re-think your increasingly connected digital life.
Among the artists on show are Daniel Rozin – New York based artist, creates interacvitve installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence of a viewer and UK-based artist Nikki Pugh who explores relationships between people and places.
Her practice encompasses locative and digital media, walking, performative actions in public spaces (including pervasive games), installation, physical computing and collaboration.
There are works from Salford University’s collection featured as well. Two large scale photographs of oil fields by Manchester-based artist Mishka Henner; the images were sourced from Google Earth and address matters of surveillance, ownership and environment.
There are also two lenticular light boxes from UK digital art pioneers Thomson & Craighead’s ‘Corruption (2014)’ series; displaying a frames taken from a corrupt video file found online – a file intended to put a virus onto a dowloader’s computer gains a painterly and aesthetic quality.
The exhibition runs from Saturday 14 November 2015 until Sunday 28 February 2016 at the Lowry Centre Salford Quays
