Images from the night

Well, Slideshow has come and gone and it was a roaring success, people really enjoyed interacting with the various slide projectors and viewers we had around the room and there were images changing all the time which kept it visually really interesting, please check here for loads of great photos of the night. Many thanks to Jacob for the fabulous photos.

Sarah Cook

Sarah Cook

Sumarni Fothergill

Katie Cooper

Kandice Bertenshaw

Lucy Illingworth

Sumarni Fothergill

Lucy Illingworth

John and Lucy

Hannah Weston

Lucy designed and printed the poster in letterpress

Ash van Dyck

sneak peek

slide viewing

We will have a 1950's vintage Kodaslide single slide machine with a box of random slides for people to get to grips with, see what you find in the box.

Slideshow Press release

On the 19^th of November a group of 1^st year interactive arts students from the Manchester School of Art are holding a special one night exhibition at the Salutation Pub on the MMU campus.

The school of art has within its walls a unique visual resource that's existence is currently threatened. The Visual Resources Centre is a library of images in slide format that chronicle the history of the school of art, the history of Manchester and anything else you could imagine.

For a taste of the unique imagery please visit the flikr page here

Students for across the art school are producing work in response to the imagery in the archive and there will also be slideshow presentations of course. Please come along to this public event for the chance to check out some really inspiring work and some images you will quite likely never otherwise get the chance to see while supporting our efforts to save this resource for the future students and people of Manchester and the world.

We will be holding monthly themed short presentations and talks of no more than half an hour, if you are interested in being one of our guest presenters then please get in touch here saveourslides@gmail.com

A lantern slide image of Oxford Road   

                                                                                                       a selection of Design Council images

“Slideshow”

19^th of November 7 pm onwards

Salutation pub, Higher Chatham Street ( MMU campus)

Public event, FREE, bar open as usual

follow us on twitter @saveourslides

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Our-Slides/563251040474916

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Please come along to our exhibition. We will be presenting slide shows on a variety of topics, there will be a lot of exciting work inspired by the images in the slide library. Salutation pub.

A taste of the wonderful imagery in the Design Council collection

call for submissions

Would you like to be in our exhibition?

please bring this form  with your submission

Simply go to the Visual resources centre, find some inspiration and create a piece of work, in ANY format whatsoever, the only condition is that the work must be inspired by the Visual Resource C entre 

What we are about

Hello and welcome to our blog, we are a group of 1st year students on the Interactive Arts course at the Manchester School of Art. This blog is to document our project to bring awareness to and save from redundency the Visual Resources Center, affectionately known as the slide library within the school of art. We will be having an exhibition on the 19th of November at the Salutation pub on campus where we will be showing work inspired by the archive, projecting images from the archive and discussing ways in which the archive can work in the future of the school of art and the city itself. Submissions we be taken from across the school of art, stay tuned for more information on this.

please visit us on Facebook and Twitter for up to date information on the project. 

The Visual Resource Centre is a valuable and unique archive of some 33,000 images of everything from past degree shows and local architecture to art history and local happenings. The library is at risk of closure and we are here to highlight why it is too important to let it go.