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Art & Media: Cu Exhibition

Cu is an exhibition on the thin veneer between two states or media, in which Manchester-based curatorial collective Contents May Vary respond to the context of FutureEverything 2010.

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Art & Media: Cu Exhibition

In the unique setting of a subterranean pub, Cu responds both to the physicality of the space itself and to the context of FutureEverything 2010. Manchester-based contemporary art group Contents May Vary have invited fourteen artists, collectives and galleries to exhibit alongside themselves, with each being selected on the artists’ ability to work across disciplines, and for the strong conceptual use of their respective media.

FutureEverything and Castlefield Gallery have been working with independent visual arts groups in Manchester as a part of the Contemporary Art Manchester consortium (CAM). Increasingly visual artists who don’t define themselves as media artists are working with digital media. Here Contents May Vary have been invited to engage artists within their visual art network and community in responding to the theme of medium and mediation.

Addressing questions and instigating dialogue, Cu seeks to explore the connections or disconnections between new media and visual art. Referenced strongly in its title Cu, the chemical symbol for Copper, this exhibition acts as a conduit for the questions raised by Contents May Vary about this relationship. It seeks through its invited artists to challenge and discuss commonalities, overlaps, terms, and ask how do we choose to discuss work in relation to these disciplines and what arises as pertinent or paradoxical from this discussion.

Cu showcases diverse and experimental contemporary art from both national and international artists. This eclectic selection individually and collectively responds to the themes set and the unique and charismatic temporary exhibition space that they will occupy.

Contents May Vary have previously worked in a variety of spaces and explored a multitude of subjects, disciplines and media. Contents May Vary is a Manchester based artist collective co-founded in 2004 and currently consists of Alice Bradshaw, Liz Murphy and Richard Shields. Art & Media is a ma-net action research project by FutureEverything and Castlefield Gallery funded by Arts Council England.

The Production of Space A selection of pieces from the artist Roddy Hunter.

Monitored Landscape No. 16 Live installation created by a small camera transmitting an ongoing live feed to a monitor. Playing on our desire for wonder and curiosity, whilst prompting us to question our everyday perceptive assumptions, my work inhabits an ambiguous place between reality and fantasy.

Relation If visual art in its more traditional sense is different than New Media Art then what bonds are there between them and what separates them? What are they?

Corbell, Spindle and Newell Post A selection of reclaimed features from buildings; where past events have eaten their way into furniture and architecture.

Workbench Cinema Her work looks at how objects that have a flux in their state change in our perceived landscape over time. Imagery that feeds into her work includes stalagmites under bridges, cars with moss and the flotsam of the road.

Thinking Through Method (Cooper) 'Thinking Through Method (Cooper)' centres around research that I have undertaken about traditional ways of making. This research focuses on hobbyists blogs and websites, looking at techniques which were technologically superseded in the industrial revolution.

Cu - Connect/Disconnect (A Sort of Dialogue) What could be defined as connections or disconnections between new media and visual art? Is communication through technology possible? This showreel asks where do these junctions exist, and what is left of human compassion, mediation, volition?

The Picture of Innocence A Picture of Innocence is a hand drawn animation which follows the story of Lionel Bell, a black and white photography enthusiast who whilst photographing his favourite oak trees in Luxton Wood was strangled with the cord from his light meter.

I'm a Tape Recorder Maniac!! "I'm a Tape Recorder Maniac!!" is a collection of videos by youtube user CassetteMaster. CassetteMaster is a Virginian teenager who collects vintage audio equipment.

Death Calls the Tune The mass media penetrate us day in and out with news from all around the world. Over the years we got used to this flood of information and the editors come up with ever more sensational news to catch our attention.

Organised Sound Organised sound (by Gloggomobils, record player, timers and found objects) combines an interest in technology, old and new, with a make shift DIY approach to objects and art.

The General Situation The General Situation is a video work that experiments with temporary minimal electronic interventions into the landscape. It documents the installation of a number of small light sources on Chesil Beach beneath a Jurassic period cliff top.

Incident David Cochrane makes single and multiple channel videos that address notions of time, memory and the formation of identity through habit, daily routine, and simple processes.

Audio Almanac The Audio Almanac is a compilation of songs, music, recordings, collages and aural oddities produced by individuals with varying degrees of affinity with the epithet ‘artist’, compiled and produced by Leeds-based artist collective Black Dogs.

Resonant Queue We as humans rely on our five senses to guide us through the world. Utilising our sense of touch, taste, sight, smell, and hearing constantly without even being aware of it.

Static Static is the remains of a hole-punched text The Rocks Remain in constant motion. The found, mass-produced object has been manually hole-punched and the remains captured as stills.

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