Synth City installation by Mark Pilkington

THE WORLD IS MY IMAGINATION
SYNTH CITY BY MARK PILKINGTON
www.cube.org.uk.
07.09.07 to 03.11.2007

The exhibition explores striking and picturesque model worlds which replicate physical and imaginary spaces, while reflecting existences and habitats, personal memories and longing. The shift in scale ultimately comments on our surroundings, within social, cultural and technological changes. Nine artists and collectives investigate the miniscule as an artist interface in video, networked and interactive installations, digital sound sculptures and photography, found objects and custom built environments.
Not just in Gulliver's Travels have shifting sizes and miniature shapes been a creative feature in literature and contemporary art practice, 'The World is My Imagination' explores this fascination for artists and audiences alike. Nine international projects display miniscule scenery with particular and ingenious methods within the field of media arts and environment.
Film, photography, digital imagery, sounds, model objects and even tiny plants are embedded into custom-built rooms and miniature interfaces, to establish a story; opposing a playful, dreamlike or virtual world against the real, in relation to Schopenhauer's view that 'the world is my imagination'.
Participating Artists:
Nick Hardy, UK
h.o Media Group, Japan
Hilary Jack, UK
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, USA
Marcus Kison, Germany
Amanda Oliphant, UK
Mark Pilkington, UK (pictured Synth City, photo by Joel Porter).

Joel Porter, UK
Andrea Zapp, Germany/UK
Sponsors: ACE North West, Manchester Metropolitan University, Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austra, Astra Signs

Selection of pics of the other artist/s work can be viewed at www.joelporter.co.uk/cube