I visited the Museum of Science and Industry and came across the current exhibition in the 1830 warehouse, FutureEverything. It brings together artists working with sculpture, video and digital work.
A lot of the work in the exhibition focuses around social media. One of the first pieces I saw within the museum, leading us to the exhibition was "Extra! Extra!" by Jeremy Hutchinson and was a series of newspaper advertising boards, featuring ordinary, everyday quotes from Facebook, which users were invited to write on the event's "wall" on Facebook.
Once inside the exhibition, the same newspaper adverts can be seen in a large pile in a corner, which I felt was perhaps an effort to take away the digital use of Facebook, and show what all of the quotes look like physically.
My favourite piece in the exhibition was "JSUT CODE" by Helen Pritchard and Winnie Soon. It was very coincidental that earlier in the day, as the "Wearingit" group, we had spoke about having QR-codes for each of the group blogs. The idea that anybody can scan in the QR-code and see a website or a quote is quite inspiring.
"JSUT CODE" uses social media site Twitter to invite and collect people to write whatever they want. The idea is that the database of digital and social media moves beyond and between languages. As a viewer, one can take part in translating the many codes to find a series of anonymous quotes. This is an example of a de-coded tweet:
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