Date:

Exhibition: 29 Feb - 9 March
Reception: 28 February 18.00-20.00

Venue:

Discovery Museum

Time:

10.00- 17.00 Monday - Saturday,
14.00-17.00 Sunday

Cost:

Free with Invitation or AV Pass

Japanese artist Yuko Mohri offers her own perspective on our broadcasting heritage and shared future.

Young Japanese media artist Yuko Mohri, a rising star, found inspiration in Newcastle's Discovery Museum and its collection of industrial artefacts. 'Such museums are uncommon in Japan' explains Keith Whittle, director of Sunderland Digital Media Research Lab (/sLab for short), where the artist recently undertook the first stage of her first UK residency. 'The Japanese have a very different relationship to the history of art-science-technology, and for many it is a natural part of contemporary Japanese art, as well as design, entertainment, and popular culture and not something simply viewed in technology museums'.

This led her to the work of TV pioneer John Logie Baird and his great great grandson, Iain, curator of television at The National Media Museum, Bradford, and an expert on his ancestor's work. The resulting exhibition produced during a joint residency with /sLab and The National Media Museum reflects Yuko Mohri's take on our old and new broadcast technologies.

Supported by /slab, AV Festival 08, The National Media Museum, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Asia-Europe Foundation, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, The Japan Foundation and powers of 2.