Urbis exhibition centre, Manchester
Hello all, recently on a visit to my girlfriend in Manchester she decided to take me to the Urbis centre. This is an exhbition centre focusing on city life and all things city related. This was an impromptu visit so i did not have my camera with me and therefore have no visual examples of what i saw, i'll do my best to explain them to you.
Before i go into more detail, here is the link for the Urbis Centre's website, visit to find out more and to see what events are coming up....
http://www.urbis.org.uk/
At the time of my visit there was a Multimedia exhibition about the Manchester bombings of 1996. I found this very interesting not only because of the subject matter which is very powerfull and cannot fail to hav an effect on you but also because of the multimedia aspect of what i was seeing.
A few things that stuck out to me in particular were a wall of tv screens that when you clicked the button beneath them a video played, each video was a different persons perspective and experience of the bombings. This was a very simple piece but extremely powerfull, the use of technology was quite basic yet effective just a simple close up shot of each person shown on a small tv screen.
Another thing i was impressed with was an interactive piece. You sat down at a computer screen and were faced with a form to fill out, just a few questions about yourself like name,where your from likes and dislikes etc then you are asked to look at a camera in the wall above you and it takes a picture of you. Then at the click of the button it is printed out onto a sticker and you can stick it on the wall behind you. There are a huge amount of stickers on this wall and it is quite fascinating seeing all the different people who have visited this display and what information they have decided to put on their sticker. Here is a picture of mine......
Before i go into more detail, here is the link for the Urbis Centre's website, visit to find out more and to see what events are coming up....
http://www.urbis.org.uk/
At the time of my visit there was a Multimedia exhibition about the Manchester bombings of 1996. I found this very interesting not only because of the subject matter which is very powerfull and cannot fail to hav an effect on you but also because of the multimedia aspect of what i was seeing.
A few things that stuck out to me in particular were a wall of tv screens that when you clicked the button beneath them a video played, each video was a different persons perspective and experience of the bombings. This was a very simple piece but extremely powerfull, the use of technology was quite basic yet effective just a simple close up shot of each person shown on a small tv screen.
Another thing i was impressed with was an interactive piece. You sat down at a computer screen and were faced with a form to fill out, just a few questions about yourself like name,where your from likes and dislikes etc then you are asked to look at a camera in the wall above you and it takes a picture of you. Then at the click of the button it is printed out onto a sticker and you can stick it on the wall behind you. There are a huge amount of stickers on this wall and it is quite fascinating seeing all the different people who have visited this display and what information they have decided to put on their sticker. Here is a picture of mine......
Also there was a small room where you sit on a chair and look at a webcam, this webcam then transfers the image to a large projection screen infront of you and re-draws you in a very cool way which i cant really explain, its like someone scribbling a pen randomly and coming out with a distorted picture of you, it was very impressive and i would very much like to find out more about the technology used within the display.
There were plenty more interesting examples of interactive multimedia on display and rather than go on listing them i'll just make an observation that really stood out to me. All the displays i saw were very simple ideas and because of that i thought they were very effective. They were all easy to interact with and required minimal instruction to get working. Now i'm sure the process behind the creation of these displays was quite complex and time consuming but the concepts were all very simple and i think that will be important for me to remember as i go through this course and possibly create similar pieces of work.
Thats all for my post today, if anyone reading this ever finds themselves in Manchester city centre i urge you to visit the Urbis centre as it is a very interesting experience and one that i enjoyed very much.
Farewell and Have a Nice Day
David Walker
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